Editing Weather Underground (section)

====Underground strategy change====

After the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, per the December 1969 [[Flint War Council]] decisions the group was now well underground, and began to refer to themselves as the Weather Underground Organization. At this juncture, WUO shrank considerably, becoming even fewer than they had been when first formed. The group was devastated by the loss of their friends, and in late April 1970, members of the Weathermen met in California to discuss what had happened in New York and the future of the organization.

In 2003, Weather Underground members stated in interviews that they had wanted to convince the American public that the United States was truly responsible for the calamity in [[Vietnam]].<ref name="The Weather Underground"/> The group began striking at night, bombing empty offices, with warnings always issued in advance to ensure a safe evacuation. According to [[David Gilbert (activist)|David Gilbert]], who took part in the [[Brink's robbery (1981)|1981 Brink's robbery]] that killed two police officers and a Brink's guard, and was jailed for murder, "[their] goal was to not hurt any people, and a lot of work went into that. But we wanted to pick targets that showed to the public who was responsible for what was really going on."<ref name="The Weather Underground"/> After the Greenwich Village explosion, in a review of the documentary film ''[[The Weather Underground (film)|The Weather Underground]]'' (2002), a ''[[The Guardian|Guardian]]'' journalist restated the film's contention that no one was killed by WUO bombs.<ref name=autogenerated2>{{cite web|url=http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,990399,00.html|title=All the rage|author=John Patterson|work=The Guardian|date=July 4, 2003|access-date=February 15, 2015}}</ref>

{{blockquote|We were very careful from the moment of the townhouse on to be sure we weren't going to hurt anybody, and we never did hurt anybody. Whenever we put a bomb in a public space, we had figured out all kinds of ways to put checks and balances on the thing and also to get people away from it, and we were remarkably successful.|[[Bill Ayers]], 2003<ref name="The Weather Underground"/>}}