William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, Weather Underground Domestic Terrorism, Fugitive Search, FBI Declassified Documents, Bombings, Plans for Violent Revolution (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date and comprehensive electronic book on CD-ROM presents a collection of important documents and formerly secret FBI files about the Weather Underground Organization (Weatherman), including William Charles Ayers and Bernardine Rae Dohrn. Katherine Ann Power, Karen Lynn Ashley, Kathie Boudin, Scott Braley, Peter Clapp, John Fuerst, Theodore Gold, and many others. The Chicago Office of the FBI prepared a summary in 1976 discussing the main activities of the Weather Underground Organization. This group described itself as a revolutionary organization of communist men and women. The Weather Underground - originally called the Weathermen, taken from a line in a Bob Dylan song -- was a small, violent offshoot of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), created in the turbulent '60s to promote social change. When the SDS collapsed in 1969, the Weather Underground stepped forward, inspired by communist ideologies and embracing violence and crime as a way to protest the Vietnam War, racism, and other left-wing aims. "Our intention is to disrupt the empire ... to incapacitate it, to put pressure on the cracks," claimed the group's 1974 manifesto, Prairie Fire. By the next year, the group had claimed credit for 25 bombings and would be involved in many more over the next several years. The FBI doggedly pursued these terrorists as their attacks mounted. Many members were soon identified, but their small numbers and guerilla tactics helped them hide under assumed identities. In 1978, however, the Bureau arrested five members who were plotting to bomb a politician's office. More were arrested when an accident destroyed the group's bomb factory in Hoboken, New Jersey. Others were identified after two policemen and a Brinks' driver were murdered in a botched armored car robbery in Nanuet, New York. Key to disrupting the group for good was the newly created FBI-New York City Police Anti Terrorist Task Force. It brought together the strengths of both organizations and focused them on these domestic terrorists. The task force and others like it paved the way for today's Joint Terrorism Task Forces - created by the Bureau in each of its field offices to fuse federal, state, and local law enforcement and intelligence resources to combat today's terrorist threats. By the mid-'80s, the Weather Underground was essentially history. Still, several of these fugitives were able to successfully hide themselves for decades, emerging only in recent years to answer for their crimes. Once again, it shows that grit and partnerships can and will defeat shadowy, resilient terrorist groups. Some of the topics covered by this material include: * Discussions of foreign influence * Domestic Terrorism * Marxist-Leninist philosophy * Communist influence * Dozens of Bombings * Pentagon and State Department Bombings * Days of Rage * "Necessity of Violent Revolution" * Fugitive * Dr. Timothy Leary Escape from Prison * Bomb Factory Explosion at Greenwich Village * Fugitives * Chicago Riots In addition, there is FBI file coverage of other famous activists and protest groups: Bonus March, Black Panther Party, Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers, Clergy and Laity Concerned about Vietnam; American Friends Service Committee; Gay Activists Alliance; Abbie Hoffman; and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee