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Murta's home to support panther 21. >> i didn't write that. >> which book? >> it's in your book from one of your communications it got to the point where this property damage wasn't good enough for you. and you decided on mass murder, planning to bomb a military dam. what began as outrage over mass killings turned into a plan to kill hundreds of americans did you not see the moral hyperbole? >> it is true for a lot of people and one of the things we were split on the idea it's moral equivalent of 6,000 people a week is nuts. we destroyed property. >> your critics say you sound like adolf hitle...

Responsible for? >> weather underground slightly over for 20 >> what we saw in february, 1970, was san francisco police officer brian mcdonnell. a 4-year-old father of two, husband killed. when a bomb went off in his police station. and eight other police officers were injured in that blast. your wife has been accused of the crime. do you deny it? >> absolutely. nothing to do with it. >> bernadine wasn't fond of the police officers. referring to them as "pigs". >> five days after that bombing the weather underground bombed john murta's home. >> it's not true >> not true? you quote the weather ...

>> no, they were a highly organized, very dedicated, violent group of revolutionaries that started out with some of the property damage, but as they progressed, they were getting more and more violent, using weapons, explosives, targeting people. and as willie and i worked the case, that came down, they were ready to kill a federal judge, and then they were ready to bomb the state senator in southern california. they were very, very violent, and i don't agree with what mr. ayers was saying. >> were they planning more bombs to your knowledge? more violent bombs? he basically says once the bomb ...

They talked specifically killing a federal judge hearing the ames trials i believe in south dakota or maybe minneapolis, and then they diverted their attention to bombing a state senator's office in southern california. >> i tried to press him on whether his own violent rhetoric, if you read the other writings of weather underground people, they talk about ayers and his rhetoric in particular, which was very violent. our rhetoric outstripped our actual actions. he refused to acknowledge that that rhetoric may have inspired things like that brinks murder and other murderous and more and more vi...