The Weather Underground (E9) (Patreon)

One of the most well-known but least understood movements in the history of the American revolutionary left, the Weather Underground Organization is on our docket in this first of a two-part episode on domestic revolutionary groups in the USA. Julian Feeld and Jon Gabrus explore it with you. 

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Research and writing by Edwin O’Connell. Editing by Ty Wood. Theme song by Thiago França. Cover art by Ruben Gerard. Super Structure selection of the week is Left Me With a Memory by The Montgomery Express.

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Bibliography

Fugitive Days: Memoirs of an Anti-War Activist by William Ayers

Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence by Bryan Burrough

“Meet The Weather Underground’s Bomb Guru” in Vanity Fair by Bryan Burrough 

Bad Moon Rising How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution by Arthur M. Eckstein

Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond by David Gilbert

“From COINTELPRO to Snowden, the FBI Burglars Speak Out After 43 Years of Silence” in Democracy Now! by Amy Goodman

SDS/WUO: Students For A Democratic Society And The Weather Underground Organization by David Gilbert

“Chicago's Forgotten 'Days of Rage'” in WTTW by Daniel Hautzinger

“Harvard Bomb Blast Damages Center for International Affairs” in the New York Times by Robert Reinhold

Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen – A Gripping Memoir of Political Awakening and Seven Years as a FBI Most Wanted Fugitive by Mark Rudd

False Nationalism False Internationalism by E. Tani and Kaé Sera

“Weather Underground: Driving down a dead end street” by George Tyler

Prairie Fire: The Politics of Revolutionary Anti-Imperialism by the Weather Underground

You Don’t Need A Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blows by the Weather Underground

Flying Too Close To The Sun by Cathy Wilkerson

“Chicago: Law and Disorder” by the Chicago History Museum 

“Black History, And The Weather Underground Organization in America, a story” by the African American Registry 

The Road to Radicalization: Tracking the Development of the Weather Underground’s Ideology (an honors thesis) by Rachel McKee

“The Crazy True Story Of The Weather Underground” in Grunge by K. Wells