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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' (born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an American former leader 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==
(contracted; show full)n. Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant who was in the Weatherman from the fall of 1969 to the spring of 1970, considered her one of the two top leaders of the organization, along with [[Bill Ayers]].<ref name=lgbda12>Grathwohl, Larry, and Frank, Reagan, ''Bringing Down America: An FBI Informant in with the Weathermen'', Arlington House, 1977, page 110: "Ayers, along with Bernardine Dohrn, probably had the most authority within the Weatherman."</ref>

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While Dohrn was top leader of [[Weatherman (organization)|the Weathermen]], the group organized the October 1969 [[Days of Rage]] riot in Chicago, which Dohrn led,<ref name=hwket>Kushner, Harvey W., [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZOfkAoDb_2IC&pg=PA108&dq=Dohrn+Weatherman&ei=2GDBSIbiI5WKyQSVn9SIDg&sig=ACfU3U3ODwbojAzl9F-jFi5x34vkPj421w ''Encyclopedia of Terrorism''], Sage Publications Inc, 2003, pp 108-109, ISBN 0761924086, ISBN 9780761924081 ; retrieved via Goog(contracted; show full)t;Chepesiuk, Ron, "Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations With Those Who Shaped the Era", McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers: Jefferson, North Carolina, 1995, "Chapter 15: Bernardine Dohrn: From Revolutionary to Children's Rights Advocate",  pages 223 and 224: "Dohrn, a leader of the Weather Underground", p 235;"Acknowledgements" section is dated by the author "Summer 1994" indicating interviews took place before that</ref>


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Dohrn has been suspected of involvement in a February 16, 1970, bombing of the Park Police Station in [[San Francisco]], which kllled a police officer and partially blinded another, who was forced to retire on a disability.<ref name=jzsfc>Zamora, Jim Herron, [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/02/17/BAGPRO6J7J1.DTL&type=printable "Plaque honors slain police officer: Eight others injured in bomb attack that killed sergeant in 1970"], ''[[The San Francisco Chro(contracted; show full)[[Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
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