Bernardine Dohrn

Bernardine Rae 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 the Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed three members 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 FBIsMost Wanted list, where she remained for three years. From 1991 to 2013 she was a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. She is married to Bill Ayers, a cofounder of the Weather Underground, who was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernadine Ohrnstein in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1942, and grew up in Whitefish Bay, an uppermiddleclass suburb of Milwaukee. Her father, Bernard, changed the family surname to Dohrn when Bernardine was in high school. Her father was Jewish and her mother, Dorothy , was of Swedish background and a Christian Scientist. Dohrn graduated from Whitefish Bay High School where she was a cheerleader, treasurer of the Modern Dance Club, a member of the National Honor Society, and editor of the school newspaper.

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