Public face isn't even vaguely new. BIll Ayers retired as a professor of education at the University of Chicago. Bernardine Dohrn taught law at Northwestern. Sidney Lumet directed Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, River Phoenix and Martha Plimpton in a "two thumbs up" dramatization of their attempt to lead a normal life while being on the run for killing someone by blowing up the building he was cleaning. Meanwhile It isn't even misty water-colored memories. Fuckin' no less than Haskel Wexler shot a documentary about the Weather Underground while they were on the run and Tom Wolfe wrote half a book making fun of Leonard Bernstein for supporting the Panthers. Days of Rage is basically about how privileged white kids get to blow up whatever they want while black kids get murdered for writing letters to Castro.In 1969, Federal Bureau of Investigation Director J. Edgar Hoover described the party as "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." He developed and supervised an extensive counterintelligence program (COINTELPRO) of surveillance, infiltration, perjury, police harassment, and many other tactics, designed to undermine Panther leadership, incriminate and assassinate party members, discredit and criminalize the Party, and drain organizational resources and manpower. The program was responsible for the assassination of Fred Hampton, and is accused of assassinating other Black Panther members, including Mark Clark.