Over the next several days two more bodies were discovered - Diana Oughton and Terry Robbins had both been student leaders, civil rights and anti-war activists - and by March 15 the Times reported that police had found “57 sticks of dynamite, four homemade pipe bombs and about thirty blasting caps in the rubble,” and referred to the townhouse for the first time as a “bomb factory.” The body was later identified as belonging to 23-year old Ted Gold, a leader of the 1968 student strike at Columbia University, a teacher, and a member of a “militant faction of Students for a Democratic Society.” Marge PiercyĪ front page headline in the New York Times on March 7, 1970, announced: “Townhouse Razed by Blast and Fire Man’s Body Found.” The story described an elegant four-story brick building in Greenwich Village destroyed by three large explosions and a raging fire “probably caused by leaking gas” at about noon on Friday, March 6. Conscience is the sword that runs us through. Image from Wikipedia.Įventually we came to think that we could make a revolution, and that in any case it was our responsibility to try.īy Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn / The Rag Blog / March 22, 2010Ĭonscience is the sword we wield. News photo taken March 6, 1970, of the New York Fire Department responding to an explosion at an upscale Greenwich Village townhouse.
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