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| Bernardine Dohrn | |
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Dohrn at 2007 reunion of SDS
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| Born | Bernadine Ohrnstein January 12, 1942 Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S. |
| Residence | Chicago, Illinois, U.S. |
| Nationality | American |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago |
| Occupation | Clinical Associate Professor of Law |
| Known for | Former member of theWeather Underground Urban educational reform |
| Spouse(s) | Bill Ayers |
Bernardine Rae Dohrn (née Ohrnstein; born January 12, 1942) is a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's Children and Family Justice Center. Dohrn was a leader of the Weather Underground, a group that was responsible for the bombing of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York, as well as a Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed a member of the Underground. As a member of the Weather Underground, Dohrn helped to create 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.
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