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Democratic Society (SDS) who had written and signed a 16,000-word statement called, “You Don’t Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows,” presented during the SDS National Convention in Chicago June 18-22, 1969. It was a call to arms by the more radical members of the SDS. And it defined the radical group’s goal as “the destruction of U.S. imperialism and the achievement of a classless world: world communism.”
Sam vaguely recalled how some of the peace movement had gone off the deep end and she sort of thought there had been some bombings later, in the 70s.
Interesting stuff
, thought Sam. She realized she was getting off track though.
Still curious, however, she picked up another counterculture book by Cril Payne, a former FBI agent who had infiltrated the Weatherman group. She glanced again at her watch; she had about twenty minutes left. She skimmed through the book until the word “Weatherman” caught her eye. It said:
In October 1969, the Weatherman faction put their militant, confrontation theory on the line as they battled the Chicago police in the ‘Days of Rage.’ At their last public gathering held in Flint, Michigan, in December 1969, the Weatherman ‘War Council’ decided the group would go underground. “We have to start tearing down this country,” Mark Rudd told the War Council. “We have to have a revolution in this country that’s going to overthrow—like bombs, like guns, like firebombs, by anything and everything.” Charles Manson was enshrined as a heroic symbol, and Weathermen began saluting each other with the fork sign, three fingers held up like the two-fingered peace sign but instead signifying the three-pronged serving fork left jabbed in the stomach of Robert LaBianca after his throat was brutally slashed by members of the Manson Family. It was heralded as ‘the year of the fork’ and the criterion for revolutionary action became “the heavier the better.”
Oh no
, thought Sam. The Manson Family? She’d seen way too many ‘E’ True Hollywood stories on that one. Charles Manson was a hippie who developed a cult-like group of followers dubbed the Manson Family whom he prompted to commit murder for money, drugs, and his counterculture principles. In August 1969 the Manson Family killed five people at the home of Sharon Tate, a famous actress who was eight and a half months pregnant, and director Roman Polanski. They also killed Leno LaBianca and his wife in a horrific manner.
Sam felt her stomach clench … the three finger salute. She immediately began to dismiss herself … she probably had it wrong. She felt the need to find that Horowitz book
now
. She got up and quickly located the library’s copy. She looked up Weathermen in the index and found several entries under ‘Weather Underground.’ One of them discussed:
… a famous ‘War Council’ held in Flint, Michigan, when Bernadine Dohrn praised Charles Manson and spread her fingers in the infamous fork salute. “Dig it!” she cried to the assembled warriors. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach. Wild!”
Sam set down the book carefully and stared straight ahead. She felt frozen, unsure of how to proceed. A familiar feeling returned and there she was back in the helicopter, back on THAT night …
As they searched around the shoreline, her crew saw what they first thought were kayakers. When it quickly ‘clicked’ that typically kayakers do not paddle around at 4:30 a.m., they circled back and found three people in the water. They came into a hover, deployed the Rescue Swimmer and hoisted up the three people. The survivors, two men and a boy of fifteen, told them that their boat had smashed into rocks and everyone onboard was thrown off. They said that there was one more person on their boat, the captain, who was also the boy’s father. He was below decks and did not have on a life vest when
Sam vaguely recalled how some of the peace movement had gone off the deep end and she sort of thought there had been some bombings later, in the 70s.
Interesting stuff
, thought Sam. She realized she was getting off track though.
Still curious, however, she picked up another counterculture book by Cril Payne, a former FBI agent who had infiltrated the Weatherman group. She glanced again at her watch; she had about twenty minutes left. She skimmed through the book until the word “Weatherman” caught her eye. It said:
In October 1969, the Weatherman faction put their militant, confrontation theory on the line as they battled the Chicago police in the ‘Days of Rage.’ At their last public gathering held in Flint, Michigan, in December 1969, the Weatherman ‘War Council’ decided the group would go underground. “We have to start tearing down this country,” Mark Rudd told the War Council. “We have to have a revolution in this country that’s going to overthrow—like bombs, like guns, like firebombs, by anything and everything.” Charles Manson was enshrined as a heroic symbol, and Weathermen began saluting each other with the fork sign, three fingers held up like the two-fingered peace sign but instead signifying the three-pronged serving fork left jabbed in the stomach of Robert LaBianca after his throat was brutally slashed by members of the Manson Family. It was heralded as ‘the year of the fork’ and the criterion for revolutionary action became “the heavier the better.”
Oh no
, thought Sam. The Manson Family? She’d seen way too many ‘E’ True Hollywood stories on that one. Charles Manson was a hippie who developed a cult-like group of followers dubbed the Manson Family whom he prompted to commit murder for money, drugs, and his counterculture principles. In August 1969 the Manson Family killed five people at the home of Sharon Tate, a famous actress who was eight and a half months pregnant, and director Roman Polanski. They also killed Leno LaBianca and his wife in a horrific manner.
Sam felt her stomach clench … the three finger salute. She immediately began to dismiss herself … she probably had it wrong. She felt the need to find that Horowitz book
now
. She got up and quickly located the library’s copy. She looked up Weathermen in the index and found several entries under ‘Weather Underground.’ One of them discussed:
… a famous ‘War Council’ held in Flint, Michigan, when Bernadine Dohrn praised Charles Manson and spread her fingers in the infamous fork salute. “Dig it!” she cried to the assembled warriors. “First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into a victim’s stomach. Wild!”
Sam set down the book carefully and stared straight ahead. She felt frozen, unsure of how to proceed. A familiar feeling returned and there she was back in the helicopter, back on THAT night …
As they searched around the shoreline, her crew saw what they first thought were kayakers. When it quickly ‘clicked’ that typically kayakers do not paddle around at 4:30 a.m., they circled back and found three people in the water. They came into a hover, deployed the Rescue Swimmer and hoisted up the three people. The survivors, two men and a boy of fifteen, told them that their boat had smashed into rocks and everyone onboard was thrown off. They said that there was one more person on their boat, the captain, who was also the boy’s father. He was below decks and did not have on a life vest when
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