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by Bryan Burrough


  Albany Times-Union, 224

  Algeria, 147, 158, 188–89, 195, 200–201, 208, 209, 236, 453–54

  Cleaver in, 147, 184–88, 192, 194–95, 200, 255, 262, 453

  Alioto, Joseph, 293

  Allard, Alain, 12–14

  Alpert, Jane, 7, 9–20, 22, 25, 157, 311

  arrest of, 24

  Alpert, Stew, 164

  Altamont, 85

  American Bicentennial, 381, 433, 434n

  Americans for Justice, 353, 357

  America’s Most Wanted, 547

  A.M. San Francisco, 186

  Amsterdam News, 34, 253

  Anderson, Helen, 476–78

  Anderson, Jack, 153

  Anderson, Ronald, 206, 239–40

  Anderson, Terry H., 156

  apocalyptic revolutionaries, 61–65, 67, 68, 261

  Archambault, Daniel, 498–99

  Archuleta, Pedro, 380, 385, 395–96, 403, 459

  Armed Resistance Unit, 544

  Armed Revolutionary Independence Movement, see MIRA

  Armstrong, Gregory, 266

  Armstrong, Neil, 412

  Arnold, Michael, 481

  ASA (Addiction Services Agency), 465–66

  Ashbrook, Travis, 143

  Assata Shakur Defense Committee, 364, 457

  Associated Press, 318, 319, 329, 331, 332, 346

  Astor, Gerald M., 244–45

  Atlanta, Ga., 203–7, 238, 239

  Attica Prison, 224, 390, 415–16

  attorneys, see lawyers

  Atwood, Angela (“General Gelina”), 277, 283, 285, 291, 294, 299, 303, 305, 306–7

  Augustin, Kirk, 118–19

  August Seventh Guerrilla Movement, 275

  Austin, Curtis J., 50

  Autobiography of Malcolm X, The (Malcolm X and Haley), 37, 262

  Avis, 279

  Axelrod, Beverly, 46–47

  Ayers, Bill, 56, 66, 69, 70, 72–74, 77–79, 82–85, 88, 91–100, 104, 113–14, 116, 117, 128, 135, 136, 140, 141, 145, 158, 160–62, 166, 167, 177, 220, 231, 289, 310, 311, 361, 362, 366, 369, 370, 372, 495–96, 539, 540

  bombings and, 96–99, 103, 123

  Dohrn’s relationship with, 222, 226–27

  false identities and theft and, 91–92, 116

  Fugitive Days, 82–83, 220, 231–32

  Mellis family and, 226, 227, 310

  on Pentagon bombing, 231–32

  Prairie Fire and, 312, 313, 390

  on Robbins’s bomb ideas, 82–83

  at summit meeting, 120–22

  surrender of, 496

  Weatherman paper and, 67

  Ayers, Rick, 117, 147, 160, 161, 219, 223, 227, 303, 310, 365

  BAAANA (Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America), 492–93, 498, 501

  Bacon, Leslie, 164

  Balagoon, Kuwasi (Donald Weems), 498, 500–503, 512, 543

  Baldwin, James, 33, 34

  Banco de Ponce, 317, 331

  Baraldini, Silvia, 191, 254, 316, 364, 365, 368, 372–73, 452, 457–59, 467–68, 471, 475, 478, 493, 498, 500, 501, 504, 538, 543

  arrest of, 512

  Brink’s robbery and, 510

  Shakur and, 457–58, 467–68

  Barbagelata, John, 348, 352, 357

  Barnes, Nicky, 190

  Barrett, Richie, 529–30

  Bates, Charles, 343

  Battle of Algiers, The, 63, 72, 79

  Bay Area Research Collective (BARC), 307–8, 342, 355

  BCA (Black Culture Association), 272–73, 277

  Beame, Abraham, 401–2, 466

  Beatty, Warren, 367

  Beaty, Ronald, 262

  Beckwith, Horace, 233–34, 376, 378

  Bell, Griffin, 377–79

  Bell, Herman, 203, 251, 542

  Bellow, Saul, 388

  Bentley, Alvin M., 325

  Berger, Alex, 321, 322

  Berkeley, Calif., 95–97, 260, 274–75, 305–8

  Berkeley Tribe, 122, 128

  Berkowitz, David (“Son of Sam”), 398–99, 401–2

  Bernstein, Carl, 497

  Bernstein, Leonard, 183

  Bethea, Cleave, 241

  Betty, Melvin, 252

  Bicentennial, 381, 433, 434n

  Big Dance, The (Castellucci), x

  Big T Lounge, 241–42

  Binetti, Nicholas, 174, 176, 191, 192, 207, 542

  Bishop, Cameron, 420–24, 425–26

  Bishop, Mary, 420–22, 425, 426

  Black Acupuncture Advisory Association of North America (BAAANA), 492–93, 498, 501

  Black Armed Guard, 30

  Blackburn, Robert, 279–80

  Black Culture Association (BCA), 272–73, 277

  Black Guerrilla Family, 261

  Black House, 47

  Black Liberation Army (BLA), x, 4, 27, 46, 94, 259, 260, 279, 368, 426, 448, 450, 454, 458, 459, 474, 493, 494, 542

  in Atlanta, 203–7, 238, 239

  banks robbed by, 202, 204–5, 209

  Beck Street cell of, 189–90, 202, 238

  in Big T Lounge incident, 241–42

  birth of, 173–98

  Black Panthers and, 178, 189–90

  Carter cell in, 207–10, 214–15

  Chesimard on, 173

  Cleaver and, 192–96, 200, 209

  confusion about, 177–78

  consolidation of, 200

  decentralized structure of, 177, 194, 214

  drug dealers and social clubs robbed by, 190, 197, 200–201

  FBI and, 177, 178, 196–98, 202, 203, 206–7, 217, 239, 240, 249–51, 253–54

  final months of, 237–55

  first recruits of, 189

  Foster-Laurie murders and, 210–14, 217, 239, 255

  grenade thrown at officers by, 208–9

  Imperato shootings and, 242–43

  in June 1971 to February 1972, 199–217

  Napier’s murder and, 190–91, 494

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

  in Plate-Steward incident, 191, 237

  police officers targeted by, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 205–17, 497

  rise of, 199–217

  St. Louis shoot-out and, 215–17, 240

  silence of, 217

  Thomas’s cell in, 202–7, 209

  training camp of, 202–4, 239

  see also specific members

  Black Liberation Army Strike Force, 178

  Black Liberation Front, 178

  black militancy, 29–52

  Black Muslims:

  prisons and, 261

  see also Nation of Islam

  black nationalism, 33–34, 36, 38, 181

  Black Panther, 47, 49, 196

  Black Panthers, 4, 10, 27, 38, 42–52, 68, 69, 73, 90, 113, 142, 181, 261, 268, 271, 278, 279, 288, 451, 453, 458, 542

  Algeria and, see Algeria

  Black Liberation Army and, 178, 189–90

  in Chicago, 76

  FBI and, 49, 50, 84, 184, 186, 188, 200

  Foster’s murder and, 280

  guns carried by, 44, 48

  international section of, 184, 185

  New York, 179, 181–84, 186–89, 195, 196

  Panther 21 group, 21, 100, 159, 174, 183, 188, 191, 288, 450, 452, 454, 457

  police targeted by, 181–82, 184

  splitting of, 45–47, 178–79, 186–88, 193, 196

  ten-point program of, 43

  in underground, 189, 200

  Weathermen and, 76, 94, 159–60

  Webb’s murder and, 18
7–89

  West Coast, 181, 183, 186–89

  Black Power, 39–42, 46, 47, 49–51, 58, 178

  blacks, 26–52, 68, 124, 159–60

  civil rights movement and, 27–29, 31, 34, 38–39, 42, 57–61

  Blood in My Eye (Jackson), 268–69

  Bocca, Brian, 490–91

  bombings, 4, 10–11, 26–27, 67, 96–97, 113, 148–51, 154–55, 231, 260, 306, 334, 353, 397, 447, 539

  by Armed Resistance Unit, 544

  dynamite regulations and, 151

  by FALN, see FALN bombings

  fatalities from, 5

  frequency and number of, 5

  in Madison at University of Wisconsin, 148–49, 155

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

  by MIRA, 326–27, 381

  by New World Liberation Front, see New World Liberation Front bombings

  in New York City, see New York, N.Y., bombings in

  by Picariello, 432–33

  public attitudes toward, 5–6

  by Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson unit, 407–8, 430–38, 441, 442

  security measures and, 130, 164

  by Symbionese Liberation Army, 339–41, 345

  threats of, 150

  by United Freedom Front, 407–8, 430–38, 441–42, 513, 524–25, 530

  by Weatherman, see Weatherman bombings

  Boriss, Madeleine, 357

  Bortin, Michael, 334, 336–40, 343, 345, 547

  Boston Globe, 224, 431, 432, 434

  Bottom, Anthony (Jalil Muntaquim), 203, 542

  Boudin, Jean, 106, 107

  Boudin, Kathy, 102n, 116, 120, 150, 162, 163, 219, 230, 366, 475, 493, 496, 504, 537, 543

  in Brink’s robbery, 502, 505, 507–10

  in Townhouse explosion, 107–9, 111, 112, 504

  Boudin, Leonard, 143, 365

  Bowles, Barbara, 502–3

  Boyle, Robert, 239, 537

  Bradley, Paul, 63, 92, 116, 124, 137, 139, 140, 145, 219, 221, 222, 223, 226, 227, 288, 309–10, 370–71, 546

  Brana, Paul, 382

  Brandt, Jerry, 484–85

  Brennan, Gene, 293

  Bringing Down America (Grathwohl), 97n

  Brink’s robbery, 500–511, 513, 528, 543–44, 546

  Brooks, Mel, 367

  Brown, Henry “Sha Sha,” 210, 215–17, 255

  Brown, H. Rap, 41, 47, 60, 124, 236, 262

  Brown, John, 68, 362

  Brown, Waverly, 506–9, 542

  Browne, Jennifer, 530–31

  Brown v. Board of Education, 28

  Bryan, John, 308

  Buck, Marilyn, 458–59, 467–69, 471–73, 475, 477, 479, 493, 498, 501, 502, 544

  in Brink’s robbery, 506, 510–11, 528, 543–44

  memorial service for, 537–38

  Buck, Stockton, 354–56, 360

  Budget, 484–85

  Bundy, William, 224

  Burns, Albert, 179

  Burns, Nathaniel, see Odinga, Sekou

  Bush, George, 535

  campaign headquarters of, 482–83

  Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, 83, 103

  Byrd, Robert, 544

  Caldero, Roberto, 403

  Calderone, Vincent, 107–8

  California:

  Berkeley, 95–97, 260, 274–75, 305–8

  Department of Corrections, 137–40, 223

  Oakland school system, 279, 281

  prisons in, see prisons, California

  San Francisco, see San Francisco, Calif.

  Calvert, Greg, 58–61

  Cambodia, 121, 148

  Canada, 13

  Cancel Miranda, Rafael, 390

  Capitol, U.S., 163–64, 231, 366

  Carmichael, Stokely, 37–42, 47, 50–52, 58, 60, 412

  Caron, Alan, 417, 419

  Carr, Betsy, 262

  Carr, James, 263

  Carr, Mary, 299, 300

  Carter, Jimmy, 325n, 350, 377, 436, 447, 483, 488–89, 545

  Carter, Ronald, 207–11, 214–16

  Carter, Rosalynn, 403

  Castellucci, John, x

  Castro, Fidel, 15, 34, 61, 63, 64, 84, 87, 325, 325n, 326, 387, 412, 479

  Carmichael and, 42

  Cleaver and, 184

  FALN and, 332

  Williams and, 31, 42

  Cawley, Donald F., 245–46, 249, 253

  CBS Evening News, 526

  Charette, Jean-Pierre, 12–14

  Chase Manhattan Bank, 19

  Chesimard, Joanne (Assata Shakur), vii, 189, 190, 192, 202n, 204, 205, 207–9, 214, 238–40, 242, 243, 273, 306, 450, 454, 458, 474–75, 520, 541–43

  on Black Liberation Army, 173

  capture of, 246–49, 474

  defense committee for, 364, 457

  FBI and, 478, 479, 542–43

  jailbreak of, 474–79

  legendary image of, 238, 248

  poem by, 236

  trial of, 474

  Chessman, Caryl, 260–61

  Chicago, Ill.:

  Black Panthers in, 76

  Democratic National Convention in, 12, 51, 66

  FALN bombings in, 330–32, 380–82, 393, 396–97, 403–5, 481

  Haymarket Square, 79, 149

  Puerto Ricans in, 386–89, 480

  Tuley High in, 387–89

  Weatherman in, 70–76, 78–81, 93, 94

  Weatherman’s Days of Rage in, 70, 73, 74, 78–81, 88, 99, 105, 114, 162, 311, 370, 371, 496

  Chicago Eight, 51

  Chicano Liberation Front, 353

  Chile, 310

  Christmas, William, 267–68

  CIA, 6, 49, 132, 148, 310, 329, 362, 452

  FBI and, 132–33

  City College of New York, 540–41

  Ciuros, William J., Jr., 473–74

  Civiletti, Benjamin, 378

  civil rights movement, 27–29, 31, 34, 38–39, 42, 57–61, 260

  Clark, Judy, 158, 162, 233, 390, 457, 467, 474, 493, 499, 501, 502, 542, 543

  in Brink’s robbery, 505–8

  Clay, Cassius, 36

  Cleaver, Eldridge, 45–51, 124, 181, 184–87, 192–96, 199, 200, 203, 208, 210, 236, 248, 261, 262, 269, 272, 458, 542

  in Algeria, 147, 184–88, 192, 194–95, 200, 255, 262, 453

  Black Liberation Army and, 192–96, 200, 209

  in Cuba, 184–85

  Jackson compared with, 263

  Leary and, 146, 147

  Newton and, 186–87

  Right On!, 187, 196, 199, 200–201, 306

  Soul on Ice, 47, 262, 267, 290

  women raped by, 46

  world map of, 193

  Cleaver, Kathleen, 185

  Clemente, Roberto, 388, 389

  Clinton, Bill, 350, 543, 545

  Clinton, Hillary, 545

  Codd, Michael J., 401

  Cohen, Danny, 72

  Cohen, Judith, 118–19

  Coleman, Henry S., 63–64

  Coleman, Linda, 418, 419, 422, 425–26, 428, 430–31

  Collazo, Oscar, 325n

  Collier, Peter, 82

  Colonial Park Houses, 175

  Colsey, Alan, 509–10

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

  communism, 33, 58, 62, 66, 71, 313, 365

  Connor, Bull, 29

  Connor, Frank, 321, 322, 540, 541

  Connor, Joseph, 540–41

  Connor, Patrick, 378

  Cooper, Samuel, 204–6

  Cosell, Howard, 449

  Costa, Paul, 208n

  Coston, Anthony, see Shakur, Lumumba

 
Coston, James, see Shakur, Zayd

  Cottell, Louis, 241, 245–46

  Coulson, Danny, 249–51

  Cox, Donald, 183, 185, 192–95, 210, 453, 458, 542

  Crawdaddy, 236

  Crazies, 10, 19

  Criminal Courts Building, 21–22

  criticism/self-criticism, 76–77, 84, 260, 278, 369

  Crocker National Bank, 337, 342, 547

  Cronkite, Walter, 70

  Crosby, Michael, 522

  Cross, Leonard, 526–32, 534

  Crusader, 31

  Cuba, 15, 34, 61–64, 236, 387, 479

  Canadian terrorists and, 13–14

  Cleaver in, 184–85

  FALN and, 327, 332, 389

  Missile Crisis in, 31

  Puerto Rico and, 325–26

  Weatherman and, 73–74, 87, 88, 136

  Williams in, 31, 34, 42

  Cueto, Maria, 385, 390–97, 459–60, 464

  Cumberbatch, Victor, 245

  Cummins, Eric, 262

  Cunningham, Dennis, 142, 143, 164–65, 225–28, 390n

  Cuomo, Mario, 401

  Curry, Thomas, 174, 176, 191 192, 207, 542

  Curzi, Barbara, 521, 523, 524, 533, 536

  Daily News, 129, 238, 242, 245, 248, 252, 400, 401, 402, 474, 490, 500

  Daley, Richard, 71, 80

  Daley, Robert, 212–14, 244–45

  Daniels, Brenda, 297, 299, 300

  Darkness at Noon (Koestler), 123

  Davis, Angela, 266–68, 316

  Davis, John Willard, 145, 167

  Davis, Ossie, 33

  Davis, Rennie, 145

  Days of Rage, 70, 73, 74, 78–81, 88, 99, 105, 114, 162, 311, 370, 371

  Deacons for Defense, 38

  Deans, Tom, 384, 385

  de Antonio, Emile, 366–67

  Dean Witter, 308

  Debray, Régis, 65, 66, 260, 268, 272, 274, 434

  Defense Intelligence Agency, 132

  DeFreeze, Donald (“Cinque”), 269–83, 285–303, 306, 335, 338, 341

  background of, 269–70

  death of, 303, 306, 357

  Hearst and, 285, 287–95

  in Hibernia Bank robbery, 292–93

  at Johnson house, 296–303

  in prisons, 269, 272–73

  Symbionese Liberation Army formed by, 274–77

  Delgado, Marion, 79

  Demmerle, George, 10, 19, 21–24

  Democratic National Convention, 12, 51, 66

  Detroit, Mich., 178

  Deutsch, Michael, 390, 488

  Dewey, Thomas, 174

  Die Nigger Die (Brown), 262

  Dillinger, John, ix

  Dohrn, Bernardine, 56, 65–67, 69, 71–77, 79, 82, 84, 86, 87, 88, 92–93, 96–97, 104, 117, 124, 127, 128, 134–36, 138, 143, 155–58, 160, 163, 164, 177, 220–21, 224–25, 228, 230, 231, 238, 264, 289, 306, 310, 311, 361, 362, 365, 366, 369, 371, 372, 374, 428, 452, 458, 492, 495–97, 546, 547

 

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