The 1960s and 70s were decades of sweeping social change.
Amidst the counterculture revolution of that era, many radical socio-political
groups emerged often with conflicting ideologies about a utopian society and
how to achieve it.
One such counterculture group was the Weather Underground
(WUO), an American radical left-wing organisation. WUO was originally formed in
1969 as a section of the Student’s for a Democratic Society (SDS).
What was fundamentally a violent offshoot of 1960s
radicalism, the Weather Underground’s aim was to “create a clandestine
revolutionary party for the violent overthrow of the US government.”
In the mid 1970s, the radical group initiated a series of
bombings, targeted primarily at government buildings and banks. But what was
possibly WUO’s most famous and “successful” achievement was assisting in the
jailbreak of Timothy Leary. (Read further: Source)
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