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by Bryan Burrough

League for Industrial Democracy, 57

  Leary, Howard, 129

  Leary, Rosemary, 143, 147

  Leary, Timothy, 143–49, 236

  Lee, Anthony J., 495

  Lee, Willie, 500

  Lefcourt, Gerald, 234

  Lenart, Pat, 485–87

  Lenin, V. I., 61, 62, 272, 274, 365

  Lennon, Brian, 506–8

  Lerner, Jonathan, 76, 78, 81, 88, 93, 160, 315, 363, 365, 368, 369, 546

  Letters from Attica (Melville), 24

  “Letter to the New Left” (Mills), 58

  Levasseur, Carmen, 429, 513, 521, 525, 534–36

  Levasseur, Jeanette, 409, 410

  Levasseur, Ray, 407–24, 425–43, 492, 513–36, 537, 539, 542, 544

  anger of, 413, 415, 417

  as antiwar activist, 415

  arrests of, 412, 423–24

  bank robberies by, 427–28, 435, 438–40, 523–24, 526, 527

  blacks and, 411, 413–14

  capture of, 535

  CBS Evening News and, 526

  character and appearance of, 409

  childhood of, 409–10

  false identities of, 435, 437, 515–16

  FBI and, 433, 434, 437, 520–21, 526–36

  Guevara admired by, 411, 414–17

  Laaman and, 514–15, 521–24

  Lamonaco killing and, 518–21, 523

  manhunt for, 520, 528–29

  prisons and, 409, 413–17, 432, 434

  radicalization of, 411–12, 414, 416–17

  storage facility of, 529–30

  store robbed by, 421–22

  Red Star North Bookstore of, 419–22

  Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform and, 416–20

  Stoddard and, 514

  at University of Maine, 415

  in Vietnam, 411, 413, 415

  Levasseur, Rosa, 443, 525, 534–36

  Levasseur, Simone, 440, 521, 535–36

  Lever House, 318

  Levi, Edward, 375, 377

  Lewis, Minnie, 297–300

  Lewis, Paul, 427–28

  Lewis, Timmy, 298

  Lewis, Tony, 300, 301

  Liberated Guardian, 90, 158

  Liberation News Service, 17

  Life, 35, 40

  Lincoln Detox, 448, 450–53, 455, 465–68

  Lincoln Hospital, 449–50, 466–67

  Lindsay, John, 130, 197, 212–13, 243, 244

  Little, Earl, 31–32

  Little, Reginald, 32

  Little, Russell (“Osceola”), 276, 277, 282, 290, 334–36

  Long, Gerry, 77–78

  López, José, 332, 386–88, 392, 396, 403, 405

  López, Juan, 405

  López, Oscar, 385–89, 391, 392, 396, 397, 402, 464, 479–84, 486–91, 540, 542, 545

  capture of, 490–91

  López de Victoria, Tomás, 319

  Love and Struggle: My Life in SDS, the Weather Underground, and Beyond (Gilbert), 127

  Lowndes County, Ala., 37–38, 42

  Lumumba, Patrice, 34

  Lynaugh, Joseph, 466–67

  Machtinger, Howard, 27, 64, 66, 67, 73, 82, 92–97, 123, 124, 127, 150, 311, 313, 315, 365, 371, 373, 545, 546

  dismissed from Weatherman, 127

  at summit meeting, 120, 121

  Mack, Larry, 454, 456–57, 468–69

  Madison, Wisc., 148–49, 155

  Madison Square Garden, 316, 317, 320, 390, 480

  Magee, Ruchell, 267–68

  Mailer, Norman, 260

  Maine, 409

  Portland Police Department, 420

  prisons in, 416

  Maine Sunday–Telegram, 513

  Makoutz, Harry, 119

  Malcolm X, vii, 31–38, 41, 43, 45–47, 59, 176, 181, 192, 238, 264, 272, 387, 450, 451, 454, 457n

  assassination of, 36–37, 181

  The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 37, 262

  background of, 31–32

  Detroit speech of, 35, 36

  in Nation of Islam, 32–33, 35–36

  Odinga and, 180

  Shakurs and, 179–80

  Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Center, 537

  Malone, John, 20, 21, 376n

  Manning, Carol, 418, 430, 431, 434, 436–39, 441, 443, 513–14, 516–18, 520, 523, 524, 526, 534, 536, 544

  Manning, Jeremy, 418, 437, 514, 520

  Manning, Jonathan, 518, 519

  Manning, Tom, 418–23, 425, 427, 428, 430, 431, 433–36, 438–41, 443, 513–14, 516–20, 523, 524, 526, 534, 536, 542, 544

  FBI and, 520, 521

  Lamonaco killing and, 518

  Manson, Charles, 85, 86

  Mao Zedong, 27, 43, 61, 62, 69, 84, 260, 272, 273, 290, 312, 417

  MAPA, 326

  Margolis, Jeremy, 488–89

  Marighella, Carlos, 63, 260, 274, 423, 434, 442, 476

  Marin County Courthouse, 150

  Marine Midland Bank, 16–17, 18, 317

  Markey, John, 527

  Markoff, Pete, 293

  Martin, Frank, 379

  Marxism, 68, 130, 261, 262, 272, 273, 290, 325, 327, 364, 365, 370, 419, 451

  Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 224

  Matos, Adolfo, 488

  May 19 Communist Organization, 457–58, 467, 504

  McCartin, Bob, 249

  McClain, James, 267–68

  McCreary, Thomas “Blood,” 183, 194, 200, 201, 204, 207–10, 215–17

  McDermott, Bob, 109–10

  McDonnell, Brian, 96, 542

  McMillan, Alex, 490, 498

  “Me” Decade, 156

  media, 541

  Symbionese Liberation Army and, 286–87, 293, 305, 307

  Melendez, Mickey, 450, 467

  Mellen, Jim, 66, 67, 81, 82, 88

  Mellis, Delia, 226–29

  Mellis, Miranda, 227, 228

  Mellis, Mona, 225–29, 310, 373, 546

  Mellon Bank, 455–56

  Melville, Sam, 7, 9–25, 89, 103, 110, 122, 157, 233, 311, 340

  arrest and imprisonment of, 23–25

  background of, 11

  bombings by, 10, 12, 14–24, 27, 317n

  Canadian terrorists and, 12–14

  death of, 24–25

  FBI and, 20–24

  name of, 11

  Mendez, Freddie, 479–81, 484, 486, 487, 489, 491

  Meredith, James, 38

  Metesky, George, 12

  Meyers, Errol, 251

  Meyers, Twymon Ford, 201–2, 204–5, 207, 210, 211, 214–17, 237, 240–41, 243–45, 249, 251, 253–54

  death of, 254, 259, 279, 454

  Miller, Edward S., 234, 235, 379, 495–97

  Miller, O. G., 264

  Mills, C. Wright, 58

  Mills, John, 265

  Milwaukee, Wisc., 118–19

  Milwaukee Journal, 481

  Mini-Manual of the Urban Guerrilla (Marighella), 63, 423

  Minton, Maureen, 355–60

  MIRA (Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement), 5–6, 326–27, 331, 381, 389

  Miranda, Pablo, 474

  Mitchell, John, 114, 136, 150, 196–97

  Mizmoon, see Soltysik, Patricia

  Mobil Oil, 398–402, 441–42, 488, 513

  Mondale, Walter, 483

  Montreal Stock Exchange, 13

  Moore, Paul, 393

  Moore, Richard “Dhoruba” (Dhoruba bin-Wahad), 188–90, 192, 195, 197–98, 200–203, 209, 238, 264, 450, 494, 542

  Morales, Guillermo “Willie,” 395, 460–65, 469–70, 479–80, 483, 484, 487–90, 541

  FBI and, 395, 461–
64, 471–73, 544–45

  jailbreak of, 471–74, 483, 492

  Morgan, Dennis, 358

  Morgan, Paul, 95

  Morgan, Tom, 213

  Moroney, William, 499–501

  Morrison, Mattie, 300

  Moscone, George, 348, 352

  Motherway, James, 240–41

  Movement, 12, 19, 24, 29, 40, 42, 47, 52, 58–64, 67, 81, 89, 90, 130, 149, 156, 236, 274

  black inmates and, 262

  change within, 121

  dissolution of, 156–57, 309

  resistance and, 59–60

  revolution and, 61–65

  violence and, 60

  Weatherman’s inversion plan and, 361–62, 372

  Weatherman’s request for support from, 157–58

  Ms., 311

  Muhammad, Elijah, 32, 33, 35–36, 261

  Muhammad Speaks, 36

  Muntaquim, Jalil (Anthony Bottom), 203, 542

  Murphy, Jim, 249–51

  Murphy, Patrick, 197, 212, 214, 217, 242–43, 489

  Murtagh, John, 100–101, 174

  Muskie, Edmund, 213

  NAACP, 28, 30, 38, 39

  Napier, Sam, 190–91, 494

  Narine, Edmund, 408, 432, 544

  National Commission on Hispanic Affairs (NCHA), 385, 391–92, 394, 395, 464

  National Committee to Combat Fascism, 189

  National Council of Churches, 396

  National Guard, 3, 21, 40, 150, 404, 405, 433, 443, 481

  at Kent State, 121

  National Lawyers Club, 142

  National Mobilization Committee, 73

  National Security Agency, 132

  Nation of Islam, 32–33, 43, 46

  Fruit of Islam, 32, 33

  Malcolm X and, 32–33, 35–36

  prisons and, 261

  Negroes with Guns (Williams), 31, 43

  Nemikin, Raisa, 392–97, 459–60

  Neufeld, Russell, 72, 81, 88, 362–65, 367–69, 372, 546

  New Dawn Collective, 349–50

  New Left, 58, 80, 93, 121, 130

  New Left Notes, 76, 80–81

  Newsweek, 64, 286, 310

  Newton, Huey, 27, 42–45, 47–49, 51, 52, 68, 144, 178, 184, 236, 347

  Cleaver and, 186–87

  Stender and, 265

  New World Liberation Front (NWLF), 307–9, 339, 340, 345–60, 380, 447

  communiqués of, 345–49, 351, 354, 356, 357, 360

  FBI and, 308, 309, 346, 349–50, 353, 354, 356, 359–60

  Huffman and, 355–60

  New Dawn Collective and, 349–50

  Rogiers and, 346–49, 351–53, 357, 433

  Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit of, 340, 433

  Serra as spokesman for, 354

  Symbionese Liberation Army and, 307–9, 339, 340, 345, 347, 355

  units of, 307, 340, 345–46, 349–50, 353, 355, 433

  New World Liberation Front bombings, 308–9, 345–57, 359–60

  of PG&E, 345–46, 349, 351–54, 356–57

  rich targeted in, 353

  in San Francisco, 345–54, 357

  New York, 244

  New York, N.Y., 398, 447

  Black Panthers in, 179, 181–84, 186–89, 195, 196

  Bronx, 448–50, 453

  Columbia University in, 11, 63–65, 68, 75

  financial crisis of, 398, 466

  Lincoln Detox in, 448, 450–53, 455, 465–68

  Lincoln Hospital in, 449–50, 466–67

  Madison Square Garden in, 316, 317, 320, 390, 480

  Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs) in, 237

  MIRA in, 326–27

  Puerto Ricans in, 448–50

  riots in, 36

  Son of Sam in, 398–99, 401–2

  Townhouse explosion in, 1, 106–13, 115–16, 120, 121, 124, 128, 132, 133, 140, 149, 154, 157–59, 163, 168–69, 178, 218–19, 370, 448, 497, 504, 545

  Weather cell in, 111, 128–31, 310–11, 334

  World’s Fair in, 180

  New York, N.Y., bombings in, 5–6, 14–24, 100–101, 150

  by FALN, 318–19, 321–23, 328–30, 332, 381–82, 389, 394–96, 398–404, 460, 464, 488–90

  Fraunces Tavern, 321–23, 328–30, 393–94, 464, 483, 489, 491, 497, 540–41

  at JFK airport, 490, 498

  at LaGuardia Airport, 4n

  at Mobil Oil headquarters, 398–402, 488

  of NYPD, 127–31, 132, 164

  security measures and, 130

  by United Freedom Front, 525

  New York Police Department (NYPD), 20, 21, 23, 100, 113, 189, 200, 202, 391, 463

  Black Liberation Army and, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 207–14, 217, 238–46, 248, 249, 251–55

  FALN and, 317–20, 323, 330, 381, 382, 401, 402

  Family and, 499–500, 511

  Odinga and, 512

  Weatherman’s bombing of, 127–31, 132, 164

  New York Post, 5, 310, 382, 394, 399, 400, 402, 403, 473, 490

  New York Times, 6, 15, 18, 20, 24, 35, 41, 47, 60, 90–91, 103n, 111, 130, 151, 176, 212–14, 217, 222–23, 232–33, 242–44, 248, 267, 269, 309, 310, 316, 323, 377, 378, 381, 393, 401, 448, 449, 466, 520

  Nichamin, Julie, 390

  Nicholson, Jack, 367

  9/11 attacks, 5, 504n

  1950s, 56–57

  1968, 60–61

  Nixon, Richard, 12, 17, 19, 49, 52, 67, 70, 113, 121, 132, 133, 135, 148, 150–51, 153, 156, 185, 196, 235, 286, 287, 333, 379, 447, 495, 539

  and attacks on police, 196–97

  Hoover and, 132, 135

  Kansas State University speech of, 149

  Nkrumah, Kwame, 34

  Nockunas, Mike, 530–32

  Noel, Max, 5, 165–68

  No Heroes (Coulson), 249

  NWLF, see New World Liberation Front

  NYPD, see New York Police Department

  “Occupy” movement, 539

  Odinga, Sekou (Nathaniel Burns), 4, 179–83, 185, 188, 189, 194, 195, 200–201, 255, 264, 272, 453–57, 459, 467, 471, 493–94, 498–500, 504, 505, 537, 538, 542, 543, 548

  bank robberies by, 454–57, 467–69

  Brink’s robbery and, 500–501, 510

  Buck and, 459

  capture of, 511–12

  Chesimard’s escape and, 475–79

  Lumumba Shakur and, 179–81

  Malcolm X and, 180

  Mutulu Shakur and, 454–57

  O’Grady, Edward, 507–9

  Ojeda Ríos, Filiberto, 325–27, 329, 389

  Oliver, Denise, 194, 195, 201, 208, 248–49, 251

  Oliver, Raymond, 455–56

  Olympic Games, 235

  Opsahl, Myrna, 337, 547

  Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), 36, 45

  Osawatomie, 362–63

  Osgood, Bill, 343

  Oswald, Russell G., 224

  Oughton, Diana, 66, 102n, 104, 105

  in Townhouse explosion, 106, 108, 111, 112, 115, 120, 121, 168–69

  Padden, Tom, 344

  Pagan, Dylcia, 328–29, 463, 464, 484

  Paige, Peter, 501–3

  Palmer, Robin, 21

  Parsons, James B., 403

  Patterson, Winston, 477

  Payson, Joan Whitney, 418

  Pentagon bombing, 230–33, 309

  Pentagon Papers, 223

  People’s Law Office (PLO), 390

  Perez, Martin, 319

  Perfect Park Home Garden Society, 150

  Perotta, Pete, 112

  Perry, Nancy Ling (“Fahizah”), 275–77, 279, 283, 292, 293, 297, 302, 303, 30
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  PFDC (Prairie Fire Distribution Committee), 363–64

  PFOC, see Prairie Fire Organizing Committee

  PG&E, 345–46, 349, 351–54, 356–57

  Phillips, Jan, 411–12

  Phoenix, River, 409

  Piagentini, Joseph, 175, 191, 192, 203, 211, 542

  Picariello, Richard “Dickie,” 430–34

  Pierce, Lawrence, 393, 394

  PL (Progressive Labor), 67, 69, 75

  Plate, Arthur, 191, 237

  Poggi, Angel, 318–20, 328

  police, 50, 68, 70, 150, 159, 426, 429

  Black Liberation Army’s targeting of, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 205–17, 497

  Black Panthers’ targeting of, 181–82, 184

  Days of Rage and, 78–80

  in New York, see New York Police Department

  Symbionese Liberation Army’s intention to kill, 294, 298, 338–41

  Weatherman’s intention to kill, 94–97, 99, 121, 123, 157, 178

  Pollina, Roy, 244

  Port Huron Statement, 57

  Portland Police Department, 420

  Pottinger, Stan, 375

  Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 33

  Prairie Fire: The Politics of Anti-Imperialism, 311–16, 327, 333, 361–66, 390, 426

  Prairie Fire Distribution Committee (PFDC), 363–64

  Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), 364–65, 367–69, 372–74, 457

  Pratt, Elmer “Geronimo,” 184, 186, 195

  Presidio military base, 136

  prisons, 223–24, 280

  Attica, 224, 390, 415–16

  black inmate/white radical alliance and, 260–62, 265, 274

  Black Muslims and, 261

  Levasseur and, 409, 413–17, 432, 434

  Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform and, 416–20

  Weather communiqué on, 223–24

  prisons, California, 260–62, 279

  DeFreeze in, 269, 272–73

  Jackson in, 223, 224, 263–69

  San Quentin, 223–24, 260–61, 263–65, 268, 269, 345

  Soledad, 263–65, 273

  Procunier, Raymond, 279

  Progressive Labor (PL), 67, 69, 75

  Proud Eagle Tribe, 150

  Public Enemies (Burrough), ix

  Puerto Rican radicals, 323–27, 331

  FBI and, 319–20

  House of Representatives and, 325

  MAPA, 326

  MIRA, 5–6, 326–27, 331, 381

  Truman and, 325

  Puerto Ricans:

  in Chicago, 386–89, 480

  in New York, 448–50

  Puerto Rico, 318, 324, 386, 387, 390, 398, 403, 488

  independence for, 320, 324, 325, 387, 398, 400, 403, 434, 441, 487

  statehood for, 482, 483

  Quarter Moon Tribe, 150

  Rader, Dotson, 59–60

  radical chic, 183, 185, 265

 

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