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|birth_name        = Bernadine Ohrnstein 
|image             = Bernardine Dohrn NLN cropped.jpg
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|caption           = Dohrn at 2007 reunion of SDS
|birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1942|1|12}}
|birth_place       = [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]], [[U.S.]]
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|residence         = [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Illinois]], [[U.S.]]
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|nationality       = [[United States|American]]
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|spouse            = [[Bill Ayers]]
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|known_for         = Former member of the [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]]<br />Urban educational reform
|occupation        = Clinical Associate Professor of Law
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'''Bernardine Rae Dohrn''' ([[née]] '''Ohrnstein'''; born January 12, 1942) is an Associate Professor of Law at Northwestern University School of Law and the immediate past Director of Northwestern's [[Northwestern University School of Law#Children and Family Justice Center|Children and Family Justice Center]]. Dohrn was a leader of the domestic terrorist group known as the [[Weather Underground]], a group that was responsible for the bombing of the United States Capitol, the Pentagon, and several police stations in New York.  As a member of the Weather Underground, Dohrn read a "Declaration of a State of War" against the United States government, and was placed on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted list, where she remained for three years.  She now teaches at Northwestern Law School and is married to [[Bill Ayers]], a co-founder of the Weather Underground, who was former(contracted; show full)n December 1973 after a District Judge Damon J. Keith dismissed the case against the Weatherman. On January 3, 1974, a U.S. District Court Judge Julius J. Hoffman dismissed a 4-year-old case against 12 members of the Weatherman faction of the [[Students for a Democratic Society]], which included Bernardine Dohrn; she was charged with leading the riotous "Days of Rage"<ref name="autogenerated2006"/>

==Later radical history==
{{further|List of Weatherman actions}}
A founder of the 
domestic terrorist group known as 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'', Arlington Hous(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. The group then changed its name to [[Weatherman (organization)|Weather Underground]].

Dohrn went underground in early 1970, engaging in 
domestic bombing activities around the United States.

===Role in policymaking, ideology and public statements for Weather Underground===
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