Yet for years the FBI leadership remained obsessed with capturing the Weathermen, and they remained prominent on the FBI wanted posters. After that, Weatherman on average set off only one bomb every six months, mostly in the bathrooms of government buildings and corporation headquarters. And fully half of those bombs were detonated early on, in 1970. But Weather only set off a total of 25 such bombs during its entire seven years of existence, all of them relatively small. The Weathermen believed that the evil of these acts warranted an extreme response-in fact, it warranted a revolution. To be sure, it was almost unique among radicals in that period in using dynamite bombs to protest government war policies, racial unfairness and corporate greed.
Yet the Weather organization was minuscule. The FBI decision garnered Weatherman a huge amount of publicity and made some of its leaders famous. In retrospect, it seems odd that the Federal Bureau of Investigation elevated a band of about one hundred young people, mostly college students, into a leading place on the Bureau’s Most Wanted List. Starting in the summer of 1970, FBI wanted posters featuring images of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn and a dozen others were hung prominently in every post office in the United States, and this continued for years. The Weather Underground Organization was the most famous American radical group committed to political violence in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
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