dustin hoffman. and as firemen picked their way through the rubble, they found a basement workshop with sticks of dynamite and the materials needed to make bombs. three bodies were found in the rubble. the new york cell of the weather underground was beginning to build bombs that were to be placed that night at an officers dance at ft. dix, new jersey. however, something went badly, and three ended up dead. the daughter of the building s owner and another girl fled right after the blast. i just went into survival mode, both to get out of the house and then to get away from the police. at that point, i was a combatant. the student protesters of the 60s have turned into more serious revolutionaries using far more lethal weapons. the 60s, we were all about changing hearts and minds. the 70s was more just about expressing anger. international politics and domestic politics seemed to be
decided by violence. and violence only begets violence. from the underground, that radical left wing group, the weathermen promises more attacks on the establishment around the entire country starting next week. the medium for this message was a tape recording reputedly by the weatherman rebel leader, bernadine dorn. sisters and brothers, we are not just attacking targets. we are bringing a pitiful, helpless giant to its knees. guard your colleges, guard your banks. guard your children, guard your doors. at one minute before 1:00 this morning, the switchboard at the capitol received a phone call. a man s voice said a bomb would go off in the building in half an hour. at 1:30 in the morning it did. credit for the bombing was claimed by the weather underground. in 1971, it appears that weather is really aiming even higher. and at that point, their idea was fewer bombs, higher profile targets.
what they managed to do was make the percussive regularity of bombs going off the norm in northern ireland during the 1970s. what do you think will happen? i think they ll just keep bombing going on. it s got to end some time. aye, some time, but i don t know when. nobody knows. i m jim mckay speaking to you live at this moment from abc headquarters just outside the olympic village in munich, west germany. the olympics of serenity have become the one thing the germans didn t want them to be, the olympics of terror. i was in my bed at the hotel. and the phone rang, and they said, you better get in here. some terrorists have taken over the apartments of the israeli team. and i said, they did what? at about 5:00 this morning,
was fewer bombs, higher profile targets. weather underground bomb the capitol to bring joy, to bring joy to america, to bring a smile and a wink to all the kids who hate the american government. when the police killed young black people, we bombed the police headquarters. when washington escalated the war into cambodia, we bombed the capitol. a bomb exploded early this morning in the pentagon. it was trying to exact a small price for these policy decisions that were so unjust. much of the pentagon is a public area with visitors and tourists roaming through the halls, but security was tighter today than yesterday. the 70s is a first great era of mass air travel. at this time, there was virtually no security at airports. you could literally walk through the terminal, sometimes even onto the plane, without anyone
killed and more than 30 injured. in lower manhattan, an explosion this afternoon left at least three dead. the explosion took 11 lives in a baggage claim area. terrorists felt they had to innovate either in the direction of higher profile targets or higher body counts. in birmingham, england, several bombs blew up in the center of the city tonight. at least 17 people are dead. at least 70 more are injured. the first bomb went off in a crowded pub near the birmingham city center. minutes later and less than a hundred yards away, a second bomb exploded in another pub. there have been 200 people inside. police said they were still searching for bodies in the rubble. terrorism only works when it shocks people. the mid-1970s, the i.r.a. attempts an entirely new tactic, to bring the conflict to the british mainland. the british homefront has itself become a battlefield in the raging guerilla war over northern ireland.