Word: cathlyn
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...armed struggle against the state." A hard core of about 40 Weathermen went underground in 1970 to start a terror campaign. In March of that year three members died in the explosion of a town house in New York City's Greenwich Village; Katherine Boudin and Cathlyn Wilkerson escaped. The Weather Underground proceeded to bomb "symbols of Amerikan [sic] injustice," including the U.S. Capitol in 1971, before fading...
...Chicago, Boudin no longer faced federal charges, but was liable for prosecution in Illinois for jumping bail. She had been in hiding since March 6, 1970, when a Greenwich Village town house used as a Weather Underground bomb factory accidentally exploded, killing three group members. Boudin and a comrade, Cathlyn Wilkerson, fled naked from the burning wreckage. Wilkerson turned herself in ten years later and is now serving a three-year sentence for criminally negligent homicide. Most of the other leading Weather radicals had already surrendered, generally to face fines and suspended sentences. Among them: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn...
When she disappeared, fleeing from the explosion-shattered wreckage of a Manhattan town house, Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson was so perfect a symbol of the times as to be almost a macabre caricature. The date was March 6, 1970, and American society was torn by the tensions generated by the Viet Nam War and the preceding decade's civil rights agitation. Middle-class and wealthy youths were burning draft cards and marching in the streets shouting hate at the Establishment that had nurtured them. A few went beyond revolutionary rhetoric to amateur terrorism, and among them was Cathy Wilkerson...
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