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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' (born [[January 12]], [[1942]]) is an American former leader of the 1969–1980 radical domestic terrorist 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) others, he wrote: "In 1980, I taped interviews with thirty members of the Weather Underground who were present at the Flint War Council, including most of its leadership. Not one of them thought Dohrn was anything but deadly serious."<ref>Horowitz, David, [http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09 "Allies in War"], FrontPageMagazine.com, [[September 17]], [[2001]], accessed [[June 10]], [[2008]]</ref>

==Later radical history==
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A founder of the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weatherman group]], Dohrn was a member of the "Weather Bureau" (name later changed to "Central Committee"). Larry Grathwohl, an FBI informant who was with the Weatherman from autumn 1969 through spring 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'',(contracted; show full)
Prior to the March 6, 1970 [[Greenwich Village townhouse explosion]], in which three members of the group were killed as a bomb was being constructed, all members of Weatherman went [[Underground culture|underground]]. The group then changed its name to [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]].

Dohrn went underground in early 1970, engaging in bombing activities. 
These activities have been described as terrorism,<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 frenzied overreach of protest which took the form of terrorism, a deliberate assault on persons and property"; 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)"; 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 [...] Known Weatherman members were John Jacobs, Mark Rudd, Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn [...]"</ref> although some, including Dohrn's husband, [[Bill Ayers]], also a leader of the group, have disputed that description.<ref>Ayers, Bill, ''Fugitive Days'', Beacon Press, ISBN 0807071242, p 263</ref><ref>Berger, Dan, ''Outlaws of America: The Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity'', AK Press: Oakland, California, 2006, ISBN 1904859410 pp 286-287: "Its war against property by definition means that the WUO was not a terrorist organization &mdash; it was, indeed, one deeply opposed to the tactic of terrorism." Berger also describes the organization's activities as "a moral, pedagogical, and militant form of guerrilla theater with a bang."; the book describes Berger as "a writer, activist, and Ph.D. candidate", and the book is dedicated to his grandmother and to Weatherman member [[David Gilbert]]</ref> The FBI, on the same Web page in which it describes organization as a former "domestic terrorist group", includes a picture of Dohrn.<ref>Web page titled, [http://www.fbi.gov/page2/jan04/weather012904.htm "BYTE OUT OF HISTORY: 1975 Terrorism Flashback: State Department Bombing"], at F.B.I. website, dated [[January 29]], [[2004]], retrieved [[September 2]], [[2008]]</ref> The ''Encyclopedia of Terrorism'' has an article on Dohrn.<ref name=hwket/>⏎
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In a 1994 interview, Dohrn said that while the group carried out some bombings of buildings, it did not target people, and the group's actions were justified as a proper response to violent government actions: "We only did a couple, and they were carefully done. They involved property and were not meant to harm anybody. They were symbolic and done so that everyone would instantly recognize what was being said. It was 'armed propaganda'. Sure, it was violent, and it's hard to justify(contracted; show full)[[Category:People from Milwaukee, Wisconsin]]
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