Former WU member says the group would have bombed a dance at Ft Dix and the Columbia library but for the accidental town house explosion which killed three WU members - see the comments of Brian Flanagan below:
Professor Klehr also took a dim view of the often stated account that after the town house explosion, the Weathermen resolved to take no lives, and that in the string of bombings that followed, no one was seriously injured. He points out that members have said the explosives at the town house were intended for an officers' dance at Fort Dix in New Jersey and for Butler Library at Columbia University.
"The only reason they were not guilty of mass murder is mere incompetence," he said. "I don't know what sort of defense that is."
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The film revived contacts among former members, Mr. Flanagan said, and prompted him and others to open up about the past in interviews and public forums. He said he recently met up with Ms. Wilkerson in the bar, which has become what he called "definitely a lefty bar."
"There were a lot of things I had trouble coming to terms with over the years, and this has resurrected them," Mr. Flanagan said of the documentary which, he said, portrayed him as more rueful than he felt.
"I was regretful over about 5 percent of what we did," he said. "I think 95 percent of what we did was great, and we'd do it again."
And what was the 5 percent? The town house, Mr. Flanagan said. When pressed, he said he regretted both the deaths of the three Weathermen — Ted Gold, Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins — and the plan to bomb the dance at Fort Dix and the library at Columbia, which could have taken lives.
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How do you bomb a dance without killing people? So much for the harmless Weather Underground myth. |
