- 47
- Episodes
- 6
- Transcribed
- 135
- Ratings
- 2020
- First episode
About Shoe Leather
Shoe Leather is an investigative podcast that goes behind the scenes of forgotten stories that shaped New York City. Go along with the team as they knock on doors and track down the people who were at the center of the news. This season, we're going to 1970 Greenwich Village. A townhouse suddenly explodes. And authorities find out that it’s ground zero for the operations of the Weather Underground: a radical group of young revolutionaries who use violence to "bring the war home." Three members are killed in the explosion, two others escape. Police would later describe the townhouse as a “bomb factory.” What pushes a protest movement toward violence? What makes a group of mostly middle-class, college-educated young men and women decide to build a bomb?
- Publisher
- Columbia Journalism School
- Category
- history · society & culture · true crime
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 23 Apr 2020
- Latest episode
- 14 May 2026
Latest episodes
6 of 47 episodes have a transcript.
14 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Episode 6: The Survivor
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Episode 5: The Prisoner
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Episode 4: The Explosion
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Episode 6: The Survivor
Published 14 May 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Kathy pleads guilty to the dynamite charge and is sentenced to three years in prison. And there's parts of prison she likes. Well, if I hadn't had a daughter, I would have stayed longer. For me, I was exhausted. So I didn't mind sleeping. I was really happy to sleep and have time to read. I hadn't had time to read a book for years. Kathy only serves 11 months of her sentence. Then she's out. From here on, Kathy Wilkerson isn't a fugitive anymore. She goes back to a life where she can mostly blend in. For a long time, she's mostly silent. Until 26 years later. It's 2007, and Kathy releases her memoir. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 93 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 42 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 29 / 100
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- 32
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 67
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