![]() So much for Levasseur’s dream of fomenting popular revolution. Two days later, the United States reelected Ronald Reagan in a landslide. “You’re looking at a f-ing revolutionary!” “Do you know who you’re looking at,” he snarled at his captors. After Levasseur tossed his gun out the window, he was pulled out of the car and hurled into the mud on his back. As Levasseur, his wife and three young daughters drove to a comrade’s birthday party at a rural Ohio hideaway, a Bronco with blackened windows suddenly blocked the way, forcing the driver to screech to a stop. Well after the dissolution of headline-grabbing groups like the Weather Underground, the Symbionese Liberation Army and the Black Liberation Army, Levasseur’s obscure little cell, United Freedom Front, was busy planting small bombs and robbing banks in several states to support its actions. Near the end of this multi-threaded account of six violent radical underground groups active in America beginning in the late 1960s, Bryan Burrough describes the capture of Ray Levasseur, a Vietnam veteran reborn as a militant communist. Robbins died in 1970 when a bomb the group was preparing exploded. ![]() Jacobs, Clapp and Ayers would later live for years as fugitives. ![]() Leaders of the group then known as Weatherman in 1969, during protests in Chicago: (left to right) Jim Mellen, Peter Clapp, John Jacobs,īill Ayers and Terry Robbins. ![]()
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