Hunting Down the FBI

In May of 1970, Miss Bernardine Dohrn, leader of the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, announced a shift in policy:

Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Vietcong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world. . . . Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of the people.

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Richard Brookhiser

Historian Richard Brookhiser is a senior editor of National Review and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute.

In May of 1970, Miss Bernardine Dohrn, leader of the Weatherman faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, announced a shift in policy:

Now we are adapting the classic guerrilla strategy of the Vietcong and the urban guerrilla strategy of the Tupamaros to our situation here in the most technically advanced country in the world. . . . Within the next 14 days we will attack a symbol or institution of American injustice. This is the way we celebrate the example of Eldridge Cleaver and H. Rap Brown and all black revolutionaries who first inspired us by their fight behind enemy lines for the liberation of the people.