The Weather Underground documentary film
June 22, 2008 11:45 PM Subscribe
This feature-length documentary film tells the story of a group of radical young women and men who tried to violently overthrow the United States government during the late 1960s and 70s
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This post was deleted for the following reason: This is a lot thinner of a post than the two previous one to which you linked yourself. Why is this a new post? -- cortex
(However, the flier seems bogus. The Weathermen didn't break Leary out of his cell. His story is that he simply walked out when the guards weren't watching: the story I hear is that after he ratted out enough people, they let him walk.)
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:36 AM on June 23, 2008
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:36 AM on June 23, 2008
Those kids were deluded and idealistic, in every negative sense of that term. But they cared, they did what they earnestly believed would help, which is a lot more than I can say.
posted by phrontist at 1:17 AM on June 23, 2008
posted by phrontist at 1:17 AM on June 23, 2008
Released in 2004. Gee I wonder why this is being brought up now?
This is a double based on the very links you provided.
posted by srboisvert at 1:50 AM on June 23, 2008
This is a double based on the very links you provided.
posted by srboisvert at 1:50 AM on June 23, 2008
I just saw this film a month or so ago. It was quite an interesting doco.
however I don't understand the point of the FPP when its been mentioned twice before and you aren't really bringin anythign new to the table?
posted by mary8nne at 4:45 AM on June 23, 2008
however I don't understand the point of the FPP when its been mentioned twice before and you aren't really bringin anythign new to the table?
posted by mary8nne at 4:45 AM on June 23, 2008
However, the flier seems bogus. The Weathermen didn't break Leary out of his cell. His story is that he simply walked out when the guards weren't watching: the story I hear is that after he ratted out enough people, they let him walk.
Do you have any cites for this? All the accounts I have read in histories of the Weather Underground support the breakout story, which is of course a minor though exciting event in the overall story of the group. But of course the prison breakout became an important part of the group's mythology, so it is easy to imagine the story not being corrected if indeed they didn't help Leary get over the wall and were just the get away drivers.
posted by Forktine at 6:08 AM on June 23, 2008
Do you have any cites for this? All the accounts I have read in histories of the Weather Underground support the breakout story, which is of course a minor though exciting event in the overall story of the group. But of course the prison breakout became an important part of the group's mythology, so it is easy to imagine the story not being corrected if indeed they didn't help Leary get over the wall and were just the get away drivers.
posted by Forktine at 6:08 AM on June 23, 2008
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Again, as I get on and see how the US is "progressing" I move from, "Those deluded crazies" to "Ahead of their time, what a pity they didn't succeed."
posted by lupus_yonderboy at 12:34 AM on June 23, 2008 [1 favorite]