Weatherman
In 1969, Gold joined the Weatherman faction of Columbia SDS. Gold had become more militant after a visit to Cuba, during which he and some other U.S. anti-war activists met with representatives of the Vietnamese people who were also opposed to continued U.S. military intervention in Indochina.
A few months after the Weatherman faction's October 1969 "Days of Rage" protests in Chicago, Gold was killed in the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion. This occurred, according to Susan Braudy's book Family Circle, after Gold "had just returned to the first floor parlor after his first brief trip to the Strand Book Store". Braudy's book also revealed that "in front of the burning house, an FBI agent who had been part of the surveillance team keeping watch on the young radicals quickly snapped pictures of the house's crumbling brick Greek-revival facade" and "since the buildings on the block were of significant design interest, had been posing as an architectural historian".
After the 1970 bombing, many members of the Weathermen were on the FBI's "most wanted" list. The Weathermen changed their name to "Weather Underground Organization" as its members went underground, living beyond the reach of the law.
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