Mark Rudd is best known for being a founding member of the Weatherman (also known as the Weather Underground), an organization comprised of radical lefts that partly stemmed from Columbia University's Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Upon formation the group got their name from the Bob Dylan lyric, “you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,” but unlike the pacifistic folk singer, they were known for their violent campaigns. Following an accidental but fatal explosion at a Greenwich Village townhouse in early 1970, while preparing for bombings at both Fort Dix U.S. Army base and Butler Library at Columbia University, the organization's members went even further underground, and by the end of that year were on the FBI's ten most-wanted list. more ›