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{{Infobox person
|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.]]
|death_date        =
(contracted; show full) June 1964 and later a law degree in June 1967.  While attending law school, Dohrn began working with Martin Luther King, Jr. She was the first law student organizer for the National Lawyers Guild. She was organizing against the war in Vietnam and in conjunction with the Black Freedom Movement.  In 1967 Bernardine Dohrn was listed as the new student director of the National Lawyers Guild.<ref>Siegel, Bill et al, The Weather Underground, the American Historical Review, 2004.</ref>

===1968===
 

On May 26, 1968, as a speaker for the nNational Lawyers Guild, stated a motion was to be filedDohrn said she was filing a motion in federal court asking for an injunction to halt any disciplinary action that was being taken against student activists and any of the criminal charges. She represented students from Columbia who were striking and protesting.

On June 14, 1968, she was elected as the Inter-organizational Secretary of SDS. When elected, she was asked if she was a socialist and she replied, "I consider myself a revolutionary communist."<ref name="autogenerated2006">Berger, Dan, Outlaws of America: the Weather Underground and the Politics of Solidarity, AK press, 2006.</ref>

From August 30 to September 1, 1968 Bernardine, Dohrn visited Yugoslavia. On September 20, 1968, after returning from Europe with a group of American student leaders, Bernardine Dohrnshe announced they had met in Budapest with representatives from North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam with a focus ofto discuss peace talks.

On the night of October 1, 1968, Bernardine Dohrn spoke at a meeting in Chicago to condemn policy action in Chicago during the Democratic National Convention. From October 11 to 13, Students for a Democratic Society held a National meeting at the University of Colorado in Boulder. BernardineDohrn was a speaker and addressed concerns on behalf of new members, saying they wanted to know where the movement was headed and what involvement they could expect. On October 11, 1968, Bernardine Dohrn suggested she would expand the movement to non-students and do all that was necessary to complete the job of "attack, expose, destroy."<ref name="autogenerated1975">U.S. Government Printing Office, The Weather Underground report, 1975.</ref>

===1969===

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