![]() ![]() ![]() Wilkerson had been ironing at the time, as she explains in her memoir, when “a blast reverberated through the house and in place of the ironing board, a mountain of splintered wood and brick rose up all around me . . . . Even as I tried desperately to process what was happening, I noted with resignation that this was one mess I was not going to be able to clean up.”ĭragging themselves oppressed through the newly renovated $20 million student The bombs, which had been handcrafted in the basement, were engineered to murder military officers in New Jersey instead, they reduced the house to smithereens, killing three of Wilkerson’s radical leftist friends. Bingham interviews Cathy Wilkerson, an infamous member of the Weather Underground, who helped blow up her father’s Greenwich Village townhouse in 1970. ![]() “Everything suddenly was Technicolor and there was hope,” says feminist Robin Morgan at the book’s beginning-until things got dark. Bingham focuses on the time period between August 1969 and September 1970, which, as she points out, crammed in more momentous “sixties moments” than most recall. ![]() With Witness to the Revolution-a sprawling oral history of the later years of the decade-the journalist Clara Bingham offers an amalgamation of the recollections of hippies, cops, LSD enthusiasts, activist thespians, Vietnam vets, Nixon staffers, Weather Underground members and the FBI agents assigned to track them, and, of course, various associates of the Grateful Dead. ![]()
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