The Vietnam War and the unfinished business of the civil rights movement led to disillusionment and rage against a government that seemed thoroughly corrupted. Far-left groups like the Weather Underground responded with almost nonstop explosives. For an 18-month period from 1971 to 1972, there were more than 2,500 bombings in the United States, or almost five a day, a vast majority of them nonfatal, according to the journalist Bryan Burrough in his book “Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the F.B.I., and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence.”
That paragraph has some real history.
