Who were The Weathermen?

robboy

They were a group of mostly college student types loosely organized to protest the Vietnam War. They were violent, ultra-left and ultimately self-defeating in their efforts due to the extreme nature of their behavior. Good reference site: http://slate.msn.com/id/2084009/ May 04 04, 8:34 PM

Snoopy4114

They were a group of radical college-aged people in the 1960s who protested the Vietnam War and were responsible for various bombings in the U.S. that killed innocent civilians. May 04 04, 11:55 PM

yeaux

They were an extreme leftwing branch of the SDS. They were named for a Bob Dylan song. Originally, Weatherman was part of the Revolutionary Youth Movement within the Students for a Democratic Society. When they split - first from the Maoists, and then from SDS itself - Weatherman distinguished itself from other self-proclaimed revolutionary groups by claiming that there was no time to build a vanguard party and that the revolutionary war against the Untited States government and the system of capitalism should begin right away. To that end, Weatherman subsequently carried out a campaign of bombings, jailbreaks, and riots. The name of the group derives from the Bob Dylan song "Subterranean Homesick Blues", which featured the lyrics, "You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows", which was also quoted at the bottom of an influential essay in the SDS newspaper, New Left Notes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weathermen [Edited to add supporting reference - McG] Jun 11 04, 5:50 PM