***The Weather Underground did not EXIST before late 1969.***
The seeds were there. The SDS. Students for a Democratic Society.
Remember the old S.W.I.N.E. (Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything)from the Al Capp Li’l Abner comic strip? I still get a thrill thinking of when the SWINE assaulted the mafia enforcer’s brass knuckles with their teeth. The mafia had bought the University from the cowering University staff.
Days of Rage in reaction to the trial of the Chicago 7 riot plotters was the first strike.