Special: The Weather Underground - PROMO

Special: The Weather Underground - PROMO

During the Vietnam war, the "Weathermen", a group of student activists, tried to overthrow the US government. Watch this Link TV special to hear former members speak candidly about eluding one of the largest manhunts in FBI history.
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In October 1969, hundreds of young people wielding lead pipes and clad in football helmets marched through an upscale Chicago shopping district, pummeling parked cars and smashing shop windows. Thus began the “Days of Rage,” the first demonstration of the Weathermen, later known as the Weather Underground. Outraged by the Vietnam War and racism in America, this group of former student radicals waged a low-level war against the United States government through much of the 1970s, bombing the Capitol building, breaking Timothy Leary out of prison and finally evading the FBI by going into hiding.

 

In this Link TV special presentation of THE WEATHER UNDERGROUND, former Weathermen including Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, Mark Rudd and David Gilbert speak frankly about the idealist passions and trajectories that transformed them from college activists into the FBI’s Most Wanted.

 

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The Weather Underground film website