Editing Weather Underground (section)

===New York City arson attacks===
On February 21, 1970, at around 4:30&nbsp;a.m., three gasoline-filled [[Molotov cocktail]]s exploded in front of the home of [[New York Supreme Court]] Justice John M. Murtagh, who was presiding over the pretrial hearings of the so-called "Panther 21" members of the [[Black Panther Party]] over a plot to bomb New York landmarks and department stores.<ref name="Murtagh">{{cite news|last1=Cotter|first1=Joseph P.|last2=Dembart|first2=Lee|date=February 21, 1970|title=Four bombs at Murtagh home; Panther hearing judge|newspaper=New York Post|page=1|url=http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/Weisberg%20Subject%20Index%20Files/B%20Disk/Blacks%20Miscellaneous/056.pdf|access-date=January 6, 2014}}<br/>{{cite news|last=Perlmutter|first=Emanuel|date=February 22, 1970|title=Justice Murtagh's home target of 3 fire bombs|newspaper=The New York Times|page=1|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/22/archives/justice-murtaghs-home-target-of-3-fire-bombs-judges-home-target-of.html|access-date=October 12, 2008}}<br/>{{cite news|date=February 24, 1970|title=Police investigate Law firebombing|newspaper=Columbia Daily Spectator|page=1|url=http://spectatorarchive.library.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/columbia?a=d&d=cs19700224-01.2.3&srpos=&dliv=none&e=-------en-20--1--txt-IN-----|access-date=January 6, 2014}}</ref> Justice Murtagh and his family were unharmed, but two panes of a front window were shattered, an overhanging wooden eave was scorched, and the paint on a car in the garage was charred.<ref name="Murtagh"/> "Free the Panther 21" and "[[Viet Cong]] have won" were written in large red letters on the sidewalk in front of the judge's house at 529 W. 217th Street in the [[Inwood, Manhattan|Inwood]] neighborhood of Manhattan.<ref name="Murtagh"/> The judge's house had been under hourly police surveillance and an unidentified woman called the police a few minutes before the explosions to report several prowlers there, which resulted in a police car being sent immediately to the scene.<ref name="Murtagh"/>

In the preceding hours, Molotov cocktails had been thrown at the second floor of [[Columbia University]]'s International Law Library at 434 W. 116th Street and at a police car parked across the street from the Charles Street police station in the [[West Village]] in Manhattan, and at Army and Navy recruiting booths on Nostrand Avenue on the eastern fringe of the [[Brooklyn College]] campus in Brooklyn, causing no or minimal damage in incidents of unknown relation to that at Judge Murtagh's home.<ref name="Murtagh"/>

According to the December 6, 1970, "New Morning—Changing Weather" Weather Underground communiqué signed by [[Bernardine Dohrn]], and [[Cathlyn Platt Wilkerson|Cathy Wilkerson]]'s 2007 memoir, the fire-bombing of Judge Murtagh's home, in solidarity with the Panther 21, was carried out by four members of the New York cell that was devastated two weeks later by the March 6, 1970, townhouse explosion.<ref name="New Morning">{{cite book|last1=Weather Underground|last2=Dohrn|first2=Bernardine|year=1970|chapter=New Morning—Changing Weather|editor1-last=Ayers|editor1-first=Bill|editor2-last=Dohrn|editor2-first=Bernardine|editor3-last=Jones|editor3-first=Jeff|publication-date=2006|title=Sing a Battle Song: The Revolutionary Poetry, Statements, and Communiqués of the Weather Underground, 1970–1974|location=New York|publisher=Seven Stories Press|isbn=978-1-58322-726-8|page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=X2OJhrWo6PcC&pg=PT190 163]}}</ref><ref name="Diana">{{cite book|last=Powers|first=Thomas|year=1971|title=Diana: The Making of a Terrorist|location=Boston|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|isbn=0-395-12375-5|page=217}}</ref><ref name="Seedman">{{cite book|last1=Seedman|first1=Albert|last2=Hellman|first2=Peter|year=1974|title=Chief!|location=New York|publisher=Arthur Fields Books|isbn=0-525-63004-X|page=285}}</ref>{{sfn|Jacobs|1997|p=125}}{{sfn|Berger|2006|p=340}}<ref name ="Barber">{{cite book|last=Barber|first=David|chapter=Leading the Vanguard: White New Leftists School the Panthers on Black Revolution|year=2006|editor1-last=Lazerow|editor1-first=Jama|editor2-last=Williams|editor2-first=Yohuru|title=In Search of the Black Panther Party: New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement|location=Durham, N.C.|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-3837-6|pages=[https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780822338901/page/243 243], [https://books.google.com/books?id=mi2G28ZcmvsC&pg=PA250 250]|url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780822338901/page/243}}</ref><ref name="Wilkerson"/>{{rp|324–325}}