Forgotten violence of 1960s radicals included nearly 5 bombings per day

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In one 18-month period between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 domestic bombings on American soil – a stunning rate of nearly five per day.

For many Americans, that fact is shocking. In today’s popular imagination, the politics of the 1960s and 1970s are remembered as a mostly harmless expression of youthful idealism: Woodstock, long-haired hippies, flowers, peace signs and tie-dyed shirts.

But that was not the feeling among most of the Americans who were actually alive during that era. In 1968, in the wake of urban riots and increasingly violent campus unrest , a Gallup poll found that a whopping four out of five Americans believed that law and order had broken down in the U.S.

The truth is, the left-wing radicalism of