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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)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>


The February 16, 1970 bombing of the Park Police Station in [[San Francisco]], where one police officer was kllled, and another police officer was partially blinded and forced to retire on a disability, has been identified as the work of Dohrn.<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 Chronicle]]'', February 17, 2007</ref> At the time, Dohrn was said to be living with a Weatherman cell in a houseboat in [[Sausalito, California]], unnamed law enforcement sources later told [[KRON-TV]].<ref name=kron>KRON 4, [http://www.kron4.com/Global/story.asp?S=1519460 "30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen"], November 10, 2003</ref> An investigation into the case was reopened in 1999,<ref name=jzsfc/> and a San Francisco grand jury looked into the incident, but no indictments followed,<ref name=kron/> and no one was ever arrested for the bombing.<ref name=jzsfc/> An FBI informant, Larry Grathwohl, who successfully penetrated the organization from the late summer of 1969 until April 1970, later testified to a U.S. Senate subcommittee that [[Bill Ayers]], then a high-ranking member of the organization and a member of its Central Committee (but not then Dohrn's husband), had said Dohrn constructed and planted the bomb. Grathwohl testified that Ayers had told him specifically where the bomb was placed (on a window ledge) and what kind of shrapnel was put in it. Grathwohl said Ayers was emphatic, leading Grathwohl to believe Ayers either was present at some point during the operation or had heard about it from someone who was there.<ref name=''Hearings before the Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate'', "Terroristic Activity Inside the Weatherman Movement, Part 2", October 18, 1974</ref> In a book about his experiences published in 1976, Grathwohl wrote that Ayers, who had recently attended a meeting of the group's Central Committee, said Dohrn had planned the operation, made the bomb and placed it herself.<ref>Grathwohl, Larry, "as told to Frank Reagan", ''Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer with the Weathermen'', Arlington House Publishers, New Rochelle, New York, 1976 pp 168, 169, ISBN 0870003350</ref> Grathwohl testified that Ayers and Dohrn escaped prosecution only because of government misconduct in collecting evidence against them.⏎
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===Role in policymaking, ideology and public statements for Weather Underground===

Dohrn was a principal signatory on the group's "Declaration of a State of War"  in 1970 that formally declared "war" on the U.S. Government, and completed the group's transformation from political advocacy to violent action. Dohrn also co-wrote and published the subversive manifesto ''[[Prairie Fire]]'' in 1974, and participated in the covertly-filmed ''[[Undergroun(contracted; show full)[[Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
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