Vietnam War Weathermen

During this time the members of SDS created a direct-action group called The Weather Underground Organization, better known as The Weathermen with the slogan from a Bob Dylan song “Subterranean Homesick Blues” with a quote “You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows”, their leader was Mark Rudd, a former member of SDS and Vice-president of RYM. With these former members of SDS who joined the Weathermen like, Karen Ashley, Bernardine Dohrn, Bill Ayers, John Jacobs, Jeff Jones, Gerry Long, Terry Robbins, Steve Tappis and many others. They felt that this was desperate decision because of the slow efforts to stop the Vietnam war and bring the U.S soldiers home. Also, the Weathermen felts that they needed to fight the internal force (the police department) with violence because, since 1965 the soul and body of these movements were student
But when the group showed up to Lincoln Park on October 8, there was on estimate of three hundred people represent for the protest. The Weathermen and other protesters were wearing football helmets and shoulder pads running through the streets with weapons, with the goal of attacking the federal and local government buildings, at the end of the first night two protesters were shot and forty-five people arrested. The second night of “Days of Rage”, the police and officials give a statement that the Weathermen and protesters are dangerous and, that they will use violence to restore peace and control to the city. Many other protest groups saw the Days of Rage and the Weathermen as very precarious and risky for them, because they felt that the Weathermen were resorting to terror-violence to complete their mission. On October 11, 1969, was the last day for the “Days of Rage” protest, the Weathermen gather at the Lincoln Park police statue, that they destroyed earlier that week of