Jonah Raskin , whose wife Eleanor Raskin was part of the Weather Underground organization , and who was himself a courier for the Underground , recalls the last time he spoke with the members of the collective in New York : " I had talked to them not long before the townhouse blew up and they seemed to have lost touch with reality - and were incapable of making sensible decisions about almost everything . " On Monday , March 2 , 1970 , in Keene , New Hampshire , a Weatherman purchased two 50-pound cases of dynamite from the New England Explosives Corporation . Sometime that week , the dynamite was moved from Keene to Greenwich Village , New York , where it was taken to the house at 18 West Eleventh Street . Oughton left Detroit and joined the group at the house . On Friday of the same week , Oughton and Robbins were in the basement assembling a nail bomb when it detonated . Cathy Wilkerson , who was in the townhouse at the time , describes her experience during the explosion , " the idea that Terry and Diana were both in the subbasement overwhelmed everything else . As I forced my attention there and to them , my lungs expanded instantaneously to draw in air and dust so I could call out . " Wilkerson and Kathy Boudin , another Weatherman in the townhouse at the time , were the only two to escape . When they ran out into the street , someone asked if there was anyone else in the house . Thinking that Ted Gold , the other Weatherman in the townhouse , had gone to the store , Wilkerson replied that there was no one left inside , as she was sure that Robbins and Oughton were dead
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