Larry Grathwohl was an eyewitness to the infamous Flint War Council held from December 27 to 30, 1969. The Weathermen joined the Black Panthers, the White Panthers and other assorted “freedom fighters” in Michigan to discuss how an armed struggle might bring down the US government or, at the very least, show the communist movements in the Third World “they had support within the imperialistic mother country”. Probably the highest-ranking member of the Weather Bureau was Bernadine Dohrn, who set the tone for the War Council, praising Charles Manson for the slaying of the pregnant Sharon Tate and seven others back in August of that year. Exclaimed Dohrn: “Dig it. First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room. Then they even shoved a fork into one’s stomach. Wild.” Too many people witnessed Dohrn’s nauseating invective for Bill Ayers, fellow Bureau member, to be able to deny it, and so later he claimed Dohrn was being ironic if somewhat tasteless. In 1980, the radical-cum-conservative writer David Horowitz interviewed thirty witnesses to Dohrn’s outburst, and all corroborated Grathwohl’s account of the occasion. Dohrn meant every word of it.
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