— these words from Bob Dylan's "Subterranean Homesick Blues" were the source of the Weathermen's name, but the Weathermen failed to forecast the mood of their contemporaries. In October 1969 their violent "Days of Rage" rampage through the streets of Chicago during the trial of the organizers of the demonstrations at the 1968 Democratic National Convention failed to mobilize the large numbers of young Chicagoans who had turned out for the defendants' protest marches. The Weathermen suffered more injuries and financial damage than their targets; two hundred Weatherman were arrested.

The Weather Underground.

In June 1970 the Weathermen bombed the New York City Police headquarters, inflicting substantial damage, and they took credit for seven other bombings in 1970-1972. Yet on 6 March 1970 the explosion of a Weathermen bomb factory in the basement of a Greenwich Village...