Bernardine Dohrn
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein; born January 12, 1942) is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center. Dohrn is a former leader of the domestic terrorist group called the Weather Underground, a group that was responsible for the bombing of the United States Capitol Building, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York. As a member of the Weather Underground, Dohrn read a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, and was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, where she remained for three years. She is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground, who was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Read more about Bernardine Dohrn: Early Life, Early Radical History, Later Radical History, Later Life and Career
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“This tendency to consider only bombings or picking up the gun as revolutionary, with the glorification of the heavier the better, we’ve called the military error.”
—Bernardine Dohrn (b. 1942)