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[[Image:Bernardine_Dohrn_NLN.jpg|thumb|250px|Bernardine Dohrn speaking at a Michigan State University SDS reunion. November 30, 2007]]

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In July 1969, Dohrn, [[Eleanor Raskin]], [[Dianne Donghi]], [[Peter Clapp]], [[David Millstone]] and [[Diana Oughton]], all representing "[[Weatherman (organization)|Weatherman]]", as Dohrn's faction was now called, traveled to Cuba and met with representatives of the [[North Vietnamese]] and [[Cuba]]n governments.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}

===Controversial statement about Tate-LaBianca murders===
Dohrn was criticized for comments she made about the 
[[Charles Manson]]-led [[Sharon Tate|Tate]]-[[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca|LaBianca]] murders imurders of actress [[Sharon Tate]] and retail store owners [[Leno and Rosemary LaBianca]] by the [[Charles Manson]] clan.  In a speech during the December 1969 "War Council" meeting organized by the Weathermen and, attended by about 400 people in [[Flint, Michigan]]:, she said about Tate (who was 8 months pregnant at the time of her murder) "Dig it! First they killed those pigs and then they put a fork in pig Tate's belly. Wild!"   Sharon Tate was over 8 months pregnant at the time. Dohrn also commented on the killing of retail store owners, Leno and Rosemarye said of the LaBianca  s (who were stabbed a combined total of over sixty times by The Manson Familyrepeatedly stabbed): "Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room, far out! The Weathermen dig Charles Manson!" <ref>Bugliosi, Vincent, Helter Skelter, 1994 page 296</ref>I

In 2008, Dohrn's husband [[Bill Ayers]] wrote that Dohrn was being ironic when she made the statement about the Manson murders.<ref name=bablog>Ayers, Bill, [http://billayers.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/im-sorry-i-think/ "I'M SORRY!!!! i think ...."], blog post, "Bill Ayers" blog, March 3, 2008, retrieved June 8, 2008</ref> Ayers wrote that he always thought Dohrn's statement was intended to make a political point, "agitated and inflamed and full of rhetorical overkill, and partly as a joke, stupid perhaps, tasteless, but a joke nonetheless", and similar (he said) to jokes about Charles Manson that were being made by [[Hunter S Thompson]] and [[Richard Pryor]]. Ayers said he had been present at interviews with reporters in which Dohrn had tried to put her statement in context but the reporters had dismissed her explanation.<ref name=bablog/> 

In 2001 [[David Horowitz]] contested Dohrn's and Ayers' contention that she was not serious. She at least appeared that way to 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==
[[File:BernardineDohrn.jpg|right|thumb|[[Mugshot]] of Dohrn, 1969]]
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