Introduction Movements Eras Organizations Index Contributions
About Organizations
Black Panther Party Black Liberation Army American Indian Movement FALN Weather Underground Earth Liberation Front Animal Liberation Front MOVE Republic of New Afrika Symbionese Liberation Army Los Macheteros United Freedom Front May 19th Communist Organization Young Lords George Jackson Brigade Students for a Democratic Society Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Industrial Workers of the World Communist Party USA Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Brown Berets Socialist Workers Party African People's Socialist Party Nation of Islam
About Weather Underground
SDS Split & the Weatherman Faction Days of Rage Haymarket Police Monument Bombing Greenwich Village Townhouse Explosion New York Police Headquarters Bombing Timothy Leary Prison Escape U.S. Capitol Bombing Pentagon Bombing Prairie Fire Manifesto State Department Bombing Surrenders & Decline
U.S. CAPITOL BOMBING
U.S. Capitol Bombing

On March 1, 1971, the Weather Underground detonated a bomb inside the United States Capitol, in a restroom near the Senate chamber, to protest the U.S.-backed invasion of Laos. A warning was phoned in beforehand and the building was cleared; the blast caused significant damage but no injuries.

Bombing the Capitol itself was among the group's most audacious acts, striking at the very seat of the government prosecuting the war. It drew national attention and cemented the Weather Underground's reputation as the era's most prominent white radical underground.