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It happened shortly after the 1971 march in DC, the bomb was place in a bathroom near the Senate chamber if I remember right. I had to send a guy down to testify about it before the Senate and it was supposed to be closed door. The press was there and it hit the front page. His family was getting death threats two days after that.

During the 1971 march I spent three nights looking for bombs over the Patomic and Annacosta Rivers because we had information that our little peace loving friends had 600 lbs of explosives in town and were planning to hit one of the bridges. We found a hoax bomb on Key Bridge.

This is the main reason the DC Police reacted so fast when the march got started to shut them down.

"It happened shortly after the 1971 march in DC, the bomb was place in a bathroom near the Senate chamber if I remember right."

In this book one of the leaders of the VVAW says that they were in constant touch with the Weathermen (as the Weatherunderground were still known as then). He says that they were told every day what they were up to. And likewise, they told the Weathermen what they were up to.

So at the very least the VVAW were probably aware that this was going to happen. Nice bunch.