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Encyclopedia > Bernadine Dohrn

Bernardine Dohrn is a former member of the 70's revolutionary organization known as the Weathermen. She was, and still is, married to former member of that group Bill Ayers. They have two children together, who they raised while on the run before turning themselves in to the authorities in 1981, when the charges relating to their terrorist (although notable for the fact they never killed anyone, save three Weathermen who blew themselves up while making a bomb) acts in the Weathermen were dropped due to "extreme governmental misconduct" while searching for them. The Weathermen, also known as the Weather Underground Organization, were a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization of communist men and women formed by splintered-off members and leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). ... Bill Ayerss mugshot after his 1968 arrest. ...


Since the breakup of the Weather Underground, through internal dissent stirred up by the FBI's COINTELPRO program, she has become a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University in Chicago, and a director and founder of the Children and Family Justice Center. She also serves on the boards of many other organizations, especially those related to children or human rights. Since 2002, she has served as a Visiting Law Faculty at Vrieje University, Amsterdam. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is a Federal police force which is the principal investigative arm of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ). ... COINTELPRO is an acronym (COunter INTELligence PROgram) for a program of the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation aimed at investigating and disrupting dissident political organizations within the United States. ... Amsterdam Location Country The Netherlands Province North Holland Population 739,295 (1 January 2005) Coordinates 4°89E - 52°37N Website www. ...

  • Her biography at the Northwestern Law site, with a link to her CV (http://www.law.northwestern.edu/faculty/clinic/dohrn/dohrn.html)

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Bernardine Dohrn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (677 words)
Bernardine Dohrn is a former leader of the leftist organization known as the Weathermen.
Dohrn later married former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers, whose long-time girlfriend Diana Oughton died in the Greenwich Village accident.
From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was an associate at the law firm Sidley Austin.
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