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Authors: Bryan Burrough

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National Security Agency, 132
Nation of Islam, 32–33, 43, 46
Fruit of Islam, 32, 33
Malcolm X and, 32–33, 35–36
prisons and, 261
Negroes with Guns
(Williams), 31, 43
Nemikin, Raisa, 392–97, 459–60
Neufeld, Russell, 72, 81, 88, 362–65, 367–69, 372, 546
New Dawn Collective, 349–50
New Left, 58, 80, 93, 121, 130
New Left Notes,
76, 80–81
Newsweek,
64, 286, 310
Newton, Huey, 27, 42–45, 47–49, 51, 52, 68, 144, 178, 184, 236, 347
Cleaver and, 186–87
Stender and, 265
New World Liberation Front (NWLF), 307–9, 339, 340, 345–60, 380, 447
communiqués of, 345–49, 351, 354, 356, 357, 360
FBI and, 308, 309, 346, 349–50, 353, 354, 356, 359–60
Huffman and, 355–60
New Dawn Collective and, 349–50
Rogiers and, 346–49, 351–53, 357, 433
Sam Melville Jonathan Jackson Unit of, 340, 433
Serra as spokesman for, 354
Symbionese Liberation Army and, 307–9, 339, 340, 345, 347, 355
units of, 307, 340, 345–46, 349–50, 353, 355, 433
New World Liberation Front bombings, 308–9, 345–57, 359–60
of PG&E, 345–46, 349, 351–54, 356–57
rich targeted in, 353
in San Francisco, 345–54, 357
New York,
244
New York, N.Y., 398, 447
Black Panthers in, 179, 181–84, 186–89, 195, 196
Bronx, 448–50, 453
Columbia University in, 11, 63–65, 68, 75
financial crisis of, 398, 466
Lincoln Detox in, 448, 450–53, 455, 465–68
Lincoln Hospital in, 449–50, 466–67
Madison Square Garden in, 316, 317, 320, 390, 480
Manhattan House of Detention (the Tombs) in, 237
MIRA in, 326–27
Puerto Ricans in, 448–50
riots in, 36
Son of Sam in, 398–99, 401–2
Townhouse explosion in, 1, 106–13, 115–16, 120, 121, 124, 128, 132, 133, 140, 149, 154, 157–59, 163, 168–69, 178, 218–19, 370, 448, 497, 504, 545
Weather cell in, 111, 128–31, 310–11, 334
World’s Fair in, 180
New York, N.Y., bombings in, 5–6, 14–24, 100–101, 150
by FALN, 318–19, 321–23, 328–30, 332, 381–82, 389, 394–96, 398–404, 460, 464, 488–90
Fraunces Tavern, 321–23, 328–30, 393–94, 464, 483, 489, 491, 497, 540–41
at JFK airport, 490, 498
at LaGuardia Airport, 4
n
at Mobil Oil headquarters, 398–402, 488
of NYPD, 127–31, 132, 164
security measures and, 130
by United Freedom Front, 525
New York Police Department (NYPD), 20, 21, 23, 100, 113, 189, 200, 202, 391, 463
Black Liberation Army and, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 207–14, 217, 238–46, 248, 249, 251–55
FALN and, 317–20, 323, 330, 381, 382, 401, 402
Family and, 499–500, 511
Odinga and, 512
Weatherman’s bombing of, 127–31, 132, 164
New York Post,
5, 310, 382, 394, 399, 400, 402, 403, 473, 490
New York Times,
6, 15, 18, 20, 24, 35, 41, 47, 60, 90–91, 103
n,
111, 130, 151, 176, 212–14, 217, 222–23, 232–33, 242–44, 248, 267, 269, 309, 310, 316, 323, 377, 378, 381, 393, 401, 448, 449, 466, 520
Nichamin, Julie, 390
Nicholson, Jack, 367
9/11 attacks, 5, 504
n
1950s, 56–57
1968, 60–61
Nixon, Richard, 12, 17, 19, 49, 52, 67, 70, 113, 121, 132, 133, 135, 148, 150–51, 153, 156, 185, 196, 235, 286, 287, 333, 379, 447, 495, 539
and attacks on police, 196–97
Hoover and, 132, 135
Kansas State University speech of, 149
Nkrumah, Kwame, 34
Nockunas, Mike, 530–32
Noel, Max, 5, 165–68
No Heroes
(Coulson), 249
NWLF,
see
New World Liberation Front
NYPD,
see
New York Police Department
“Occupy” movement, 539
Odinga, Sekou (Nathaniel Burns), 4, 179–83, 185, 188, 189, 194, 195, 200–201, 255, 264, 272, 453–57, 459, 467, 471, 493–94, 498–500, 504, 505, 537, 538, 542, 543, 548
bank robberies by, 454–57, 467–69
Brink’s robbery and, 500–501, 510
Buck and, 459
capture of, 511–12
Chesimard’s escape and, 475–79
Lumumba Shakur and, 179–81
Malcolm X and, 180
Mutulu Shakur and, 454–57
O’Grady, Edward, 507–9
Ojeda Ríos, Filiberto, 325–27, 329, 389
Oliver, Denise, 194, 195, 201, 208, 248–49, 251
Oliver, Raymond, 455–56
Olympic Games, 235
Opsahl, Myrna, 337, 547
Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU), 36, 45
Osawatomie,
362–63
Osgood, Bill, 343
Oswald, Russell G., 224
Oughton, Diana, 66, 102
n,
104, 105
in Townhouse explosion, 106, 108, 111, 112, 115, 120, 121, 168–69
Padden, Tom, 344
Pagan, Dylcia, 328–29, 463, 464, 484
Paige, Peter, 501–3
Palmer, Robin, 21
Parsons, James B., 403
Patterson, Winston, 477
Payson, Joan Whitney, 418
Pentagon bombing, 230–33, 309
Pentagon Papers, 223
People’s Law Office (PLO), 390
Perez, Martin, 319
Perfect Park Home Garden Society, 150
Perotta, Pete, 112
Perry, Nancy Ling (“Fahizah”), 275–77, 279, 283, 292, 293, 297, 302, 303, 306
PFDC (Prairie Fire Distribution Committee), 363–64
PFOC,
see
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee
PG&E, 345–46, 349, 351–54, 356–57
Phillips, Jan, 411–12
Phoenix, River, 409
Piagentini, Joseph, 175, 191, 192, 203, 211, 542
Picariello, Richard “Dickie,” 430–34
Pierce, Lawrence, 393, 394
PL (Progressive Labor), 67, 69, 75
Plate, Arthur, 191, 237
Poggi, Angel, 318–20, 328
police, 50, 68, 70, 150, 159, 426, 429
Black Liberation Army’s targeting of, 174–78, 181, 191, 192, 195–98, 200, 203, 205–17, 497
Black Panthers’ targeting of, 181–82, 184
Days of Rage and, 78–80
in New York,
see
New York Police Department
Symbionese Liberation Army’s intention to kill, 294, 298, 338–41
Weatherman’s intention to kill, 94–97, 99, 121, 123, 157, 178
Pollina, Roy, 244
Port Huron Statement, 57
Portland Police Department, 420
Pottinger, Stan, 375
Powell, Adam Clayton, Jr., 33
Prairie Fire: The Politics of Anti-Imperialism,
311–16, 327, 333, 361–66, 390, 426
Prairie Fire Distribution Committee (PFDC), 363–64
Prairie Fire Organizing Committee (PFOC), 364–65, 367–69, 372–74, 457
Pratt, Elmer “Geronimo,” 184, 186, 195
Presidio military base, 136
prisons, 223–24, 280
Attica, 224, 390, 415–16
black inmate/white radical alliance and, 260–62, 265, 274
Black Muslims and, 261
Levasseur and, 409, 413–17, 432, 434
Statewide Correctional Alliance for Reform and, 416–20
Weather communiqué on, 223–24
prisons, California, 260–62, 279
DeFreeze in, 269, 272–73
Jackson in, 223, 224, 263–69
San Quentin, 223–24, 260–61, 263–65, 268, 269, 345
Soledad, 263–65, 273
Procunier, Raymond, 279
Progressive Labor (PL), 67, 69, 75
Proud Eagle Tribe, 150
Public Enemies
(Burrough), ix
Puerto Rican radicals, 323–27, 331
FBI and, 319–20
House of Representatives and, 325
MAPA, 326
MIRA, 5–6, 326–27, 331, 381
Truman and, 325
Puerto Ricans:
in Chicago, 386–89, 480
in New York, 448–50
Puerto Rico, 318, 324, 386, 387, 390, 398, 403, 488
independence for, 320, 324, 325, 387, 398, 400, 403, 434, 441, 487
statehood for, 482, 483
Quarter Moon Tribe, 150
Rader, Dotson, 59–60
radical chic, 183, 185, 265
Radical Line, A
(Jones), 91, 144
Radio Free Dixie,
31
RAM (Revolutionary Action Movement), 40, 43
Ramparts,
45–47, 307
Raskin, Jonah, 82, 117, 128–29, 220
Rather, Dan, 526
Rat Subterranean News,
9, 11, 17, 18, 157
Ravettina, Stephen, 476–78

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