The Problem With Obama

Resume of William Ayers

• 7 Octo­ber 1969 – Bomb­ing of Hay­mar­ket Police Statue in Chicago, appar­ently as a “kick­off” for the “Days of Rage” riots in the city Octo­ber 8 – 11, 1969. The Weath­er­men later claim credit for the bomb­ing in their book, “Prairie Fire.”
• 8 October-​11, 1969 – The “Days of Rage” riots occur in Chicago in which 287 Weath­er­man mem­bers from through­out the coun­try were arrested and a large amount of prop­erty dam­age was done.
• 6 Decem­ber 1969 – Bomb­ing of sev­eral Chicago Police cars parked in a precinct park­ing lot at 3600 North Hal­sted Street, Chicago. The WUO stated in their book “Prairie Fire” that they had did the explosion.
• 27 December-​31, 1969 – Weath­er­men hold a “War Coun­cil” meet­ing in Flint, MI, where they final­ize their plans to sub­merge into an under­ground sta­tus from which they plan to com­mit strate­gic acts of sab­o­tage against the gov­ern­ment. There­after they are called the “Weather Under­ground Orga­ni­za­tion” (WUO).
• 13 Feb­ru­ary 1970 – Bomb­ing of sev­eral police vehi­cles of the Berke­ley, Cal­i­for­nia, Police Department .
• 16 Feb­ru­ary 1970 – Bomb­ing of Golden Gate Park branch of the San Fran­cisco Police Depart­ment, killing one offi­cer and injur­ing a num­ber of other policemen.
• 6 March 1970 – Bomb­ing in the 13th Police Dis­trict of the Detroit, Michi­gan. 34 sticks of dyna­mite are dis­cov­ered. Dur­ing Feb­ru­ary and early March, 1970, mem­bers of the WUO, led by Bill Ayers, are reported to be in Detroit, dur­ing that period, for the pur­pose of bomb­ing a police facility.
• 6 March 1970 – “bomb fac­tory” located in New York’s Green­wich Vil­lage acci­den­tally explodes. WUO mem­bers Theodore die in t. The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-​commissioned officer’s dance at Fort Dix, New Jer­sey. The bomb was packed with nails TO INFILICT MAXIMUM CASUALTIES UPON DETONATION.
• 30 March 1970 – Chicago Police dis­cover a WUO “bomb fac­tory” on Chicago’s north side. A sub­se­quent dis­cov­ery of a WUO “weapons cache” in a south side Chicago apart­ment sev­eral days later ends WUO activ­ity in the city.
• 10 May 1970 – Bomb­ing of The National Guard Asso­ci­a­tion build­ing in Wash­ing­ton, D.C..
• 21 May 1970 – The WUO under Bernar­dine Dohrn’s name releases its “Dec­la­ra­tion of a State of War” communiqué.
• 6 June 1970 – The WUO sends a let­ter claim­ing credit for bomb­ing of the San Fran­cisco Hall of Jus­tice; how­ever, no explo­sion actu­ally took place. Months later, work­men in this build­ing located an unex­ploded device which had appar­ently been dor­mant for some time.
• 9 June 1970 – Bomb­ing of The New York City Police Headquarters .
• 27 July 1970 – Bomb­ing of The Pre­sidio army base in San Fran­cisco. [NYT, 7/​27/​70]
• 12 Sep­tem­ber 1970 – The WUO helps Dr. Tim­o­thy Leary, break out and escape from the Cal­i­for­nia Men’s Colony prison.
• 8 Octo­ber 1970 – Bomb­ing of Marin County cour­t­house. [NYT, 8/​10/​70]
• 10 Octo­ber 1970 – Bomb­ing of Queens traffic-​court build­ing . [NYT, 10÷10÷70, p. 12]
• 14 Octo­ber 1970 – Bomb­ing of The Har­vard Cen­ter for Inter­na­tional Affairs [NYT, 10÷14÷70, p. 30]
• 1 March 1971 – Bomb­ing of The United States Capi­tol . ” [NYT, 3/​2/​71]
• April, 1971 – Aban­doned WUO “bomb fac­tory” dis­cov­ered in San Fran­cisco, California.
• 29 August, 1971 – Bomb­ing of the Office of Cal­i­for­nia Pris­ons . [LAT, 8/​29/​71]
• 17 Sep­tem­ber 1971 – Bomb­ing of The New York Depart­ment of Cor­rec­tions in Albany, NY [NYT, 9/​18/​71]
• 15 Octo­ber 1971 – Bomb­ing of William Bundy’s office in the MIT research cen­ter. [NYT, 10/​16/​71]
• 19 May 1972 – Bomb­ing of The Pen­ta­gon . [NYT, 5/​19/​72]
• 18 May 1973 – Bomb­ing of the 103rd Police Precinct in New York
• 28 Sep­tem­ber 1973 – Bomb­ing of ITT head­quar­ters in New York and Rome, Italy . [NYT, 9/​28/​73]
• 6 March 1974 – Bomb­ing of the Dept. of Health, Edu­ca­tion and Wel­fare offices in San Francisco
• 31 May 1974 – Bomb­ing of The Office of the Cal­i­for­nia Attor­ney General.
• 17 June 1974 – Bomb­ing of Gulf Oil’s Pitts­burgh headquarters .
• 11 Sep­tem­ber 1974 – Bomb­ing of Ana­conda Cor­po­ra­tion (part of the Rock­e­feller Corporation).
• 29 Jan­u­ary 1975 – Bomb­ing of the State Depart­ment in (AP. “State Depart­ment Rat­tled by Blast,” The Daily Times-​News, Jan­u­ary 29 1975, p.1)
• 16 June 1975 – Bomb­ing of Banco de Ponce (a Puerto Rican bank) in New York .
• Sep­tem­ber, 1975 – Bomb­ing of the Ken­necott Corporation .
• Octo­ber 20, 1981 – Brinks rob­bery in which sev­eral mem­bers of the Weather Under­ground stole over $1 mil­lion from a Brinks armored car near Nyack, New York. The rob­bers mur­dered 2 police offi­cers and 1 Brinks guard. Sev­eral oth­ers were wounded.
• 1981 “Guilty as hell. Free as a bird. Amer­ica is a great coun­try,” Ayers said when inter­viewed by David Horowitz.
• Sep­tem­ber 11, 2001 “I don’t regret set­ting bombs. I feel we didn’t do enough.” Ayers is quoted in NYT article

Reprinted from: Bill Ayers Resume by Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-​Times, as posted at Chicago Daily Observer, April 18, 2008.

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