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Armored

Weather Underground

Armored

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True Crime

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

A 1981 robbery and shootout near a New York mall ends with millions of dollars in the wind and two policemen and an armored truck guard dead. The domestic terrorist organization behind the heist struck fear into the country and the repercussions from the robbery still remain a heavy weight for survivors today.

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0:00.0

Robbery is defined as the act of taking property unlawfully from a person or place by force

0:08.7

or threat of force.

0:10.6

The definition of terrorism is the unlawfully use of violence and intimidation, especially

0:15.2

against civilians in the pursuit of political aims.

0:18.8

Those two things are very different, it kind of goes without saying.

0:22.2

The reason I pointed out is because for one group of people in the 1980s, those two

0:26.7

acts weren't so clearly defined.

0:29.6

This organization of rebels and revolutionaries was known as Weather Underground.

0:34.5

Years before the September 11th terrorist attacks of 2001, the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995

0:41.4

in the ISIS uprising in the Middle East, there were the weathermen, a co-ed group of

0:46.2

robbers and bombers in the United States whose radical ideology was birthed during the

0:50.9

anti-war movement of the 1960s.

0:54.0

In the late 60s and 70s, the group splintered off into different factions, in each had their

0:59.0

own goals and varying levels of extremism.

1:02.4

Weather Underground was split into two main veins, the pacifists and the destroyers.

1:08.4

This schism caused a lot of infighting, and by 1977, the organization had, for the most

1:14.3

part, dissolved with the exception of a few small subgroups that linked arms with the

1:18.8

Black Liberation Army, a spin-off of the Black Panther Party.

1:23.0

BLA and Weather Underground factions publicly stated that their goals were to achieve long-term

1:28.3

political and racial reform in America.

1:31.1

They often carried these ideals out through acts of violence.

1:34.4

In 1981, members of both groups collaborated with one of the most violent and deadly robberies

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