In the 1960s and 1970s , Boudin became heavily involved with the Weather Underground . The Weather Underground bombed The Pentagon , the United States Capitol , the New York Police Benevolent Association , the New York Board of Corrections , and the offices of multinational companies . Boudin , along with Cathy Wilkerson , was a survivor of the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion , which occurred when a nail bomb that WU members were building and intending to detonate at a soldiers ' dance at Fort Dix , New Jersey exploded prematurely , killing three of their members . Boudin was 27 at the time . Both women were awaiting trial , out on bond for their alleged actions in Days of Rage in Chicago several months earlier . She fled underground with other members of the WU during the 1970s
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Greenwich Village townhouse explosion
Kathy Boudin