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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' (born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an American former leader<ref name="plm102581">Montgomery, Paul L., [http://select.nytimes.com/search/restricted/article?res=F4091EFA3B5D0C768EDDA90994D9484D81 "Last of Radical Leaders Eluded Police 11 Years"], article, ''The New York Times'', [[October 25]], [[1981]], retrieved [[June 8]], [[2008]]</ref> the violent,<ref>Ayers, Bill, ''Fugitive Days: A Memoir'', 2001, page 263: "whenever there are guns and bombs, the line narrows between politics and terror, between rebellion and gangsterism. We were part of a movement, and then of a tendency toward armed struggle.</ref> left-wing radical<ref>Chepesiuk, Ron, "Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations With Those Who Shaped the Era", McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers: Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995, "Chapter 5: Bill Ayers: Radical Educator", p. 102; quotes Ayers: "We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the [Communist] party and never Stalinists."</ref> [[Weatherman (organization)|Weatherman]] of the 1960s and 1970s, widely described as a terrorist<ref>Cantor, Milton, ''The Divided Left: American Radicalism 1900-1975'', Hill and Wang: New York, 1978, pp 215, ISBN 0809039079 ; "Their elite radicalism, their belief in themselves as the insurrectionary vanguard, shaped the ultimate conclusion: a frienzied overreach of protest which took the form of terrorism, a deliberate assault on persons and property"</ref><ref>Diggins, John Patrick, ''The Rise and Fall of the American Left'', Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc., 1973 (original edition); W.W. Norton & Co. (revised edition), 1992, p 264; "Out of this new strategy came the Weathermen, an underground guerrilla cadre who believed that the core of the "Red Army" could be built in the streets of America through te symbolic power of violence. This American verson of the nineteenth-century Russian ''narodniki'' (terrorists)"</ref><ref>Burns, Vincent, and Kate Dempsey Peterson, James K. Kallstrom, [http://books.google.com/books?id=5HxMQ4Km2VEC&pg=PA36&dq=Ayers+terrorist&ei=YaC5SP6qNqS2yQSb19HGBw&sig=ACfU3U0rEC402RCwTVutoBPU__7jGjtGmw ''Terrorism: A Documentary and Reference Guide], Greenwood Publishing Group, 2005, ISBN 0313332134 ISBN 9780313332135 , page 36: "In October 1969, the SDS-RYM  went undergound, forming several terrorist cells around the United States. The cells called themselves Weathermen [...] The most notorious Weatherman members were John Jacobs, Mark Rudd, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn [...]"</ref> group. of the [[1969]]–[[1980]] radical leftist organization [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]].  She is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the Director of Northwestern's [http://www.law.northwestern.edu/cfjc/ Children and Family Justice Center].

==Personal life==
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According to a 1974 FBI study of the group, Dohrn's article signaled a developing commitment to Marxism-Leninism that had not been clear in the groups previous statements, despite trips to Cuba by some members of the group before and after Weather Underground was formed, and contact with Vietnamese communists there.<ref name=fbi74/> 


===Life underground and resurfacing===
During her time underground, the FBI put her on its 10 Most Wanted List. FBI Director [[J. Edgar Hoover]] called her "the most dangerous woman in America" and "[[La Pasionare|la Pasionara]] of the Lunatic Left."<ref name=dsnyt/> Hoover's satements would be often mentioned in the ensuing decades.⏎
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While on the run from police, Dohrn married another Weatherman leader [[Bill Ayers]], with whom she has two children. During the last years of their underground life, Dohrn and Ayers resided in the [[Logan Square, Chicago|Logan Square neighborhood of Chicago]], where they used the aliases Christine Louise Douglas and Anthony J. Lee. <ref name=nsnyt120580/> 

[[Image:Young Dohrn profile sketch.jpg|thumb|76px|left|<center>A&nbsp;sketch&nbsp;of<br>Dohrn&nbsp;from&nbsp;1970</center>]]
In the late 1970s, the Weatherman group split into two factions &mdash; the "May 19 Coalition" and the "Prairie Fire Collective" &mdash; with Dohrn and Ayers in the latter. The Prairie Fire Collective favored coming out of hiding, with members facing the criminal charges against them, while the May 19 Coalition continued in hiding. A decisive factor in Dohrn's coming out of hiding were her concerns about her children.<ref name=lfnyt112281/>

The couple turned themselves in to authorities in 1980. While some charges relating to their activities with the Weathermen were dropped due to [[prosecutorial misconduct]]<ref name=dsnytautogenerated1>[http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=print No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen - New York Times<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> (see [[COINTELPRO]]), Dohrn pled guilty to charges of aggravated battery and bail jumping, receiving probation.<ref> Milwaukee Sentinel, Jan. 14, 1981 </ref> She later served less than a year of jail time, after refusing to testify against ex-Weatherman [[Susan Rosenberg]] in an armed robbery case.<ref name=autogenerated1 /> Shortly after turning themselves in, Dohrn and Ayers became legal guardians of the son of former members of the Weather Underground, [[Kathy Boudin]] and [[Da(contracted; show full)[[Category:Living people]]
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