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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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(contracted; show full)rn'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/>
  However, in a 2001 [[Salon.com|Salon]] article, [[David Horowitz]] wrote:  "In 1980, I taped interviews with 30 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. Outrageous [[nihilism]] was the Weatherman political style."<ref>[http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2001/09/17/ayers]</ref>

==Life and the Weather Underground==
===1959-1967===
Dohrn graduated from Whitefish Bay High School in June 1959.  She later attended Miami University from September 1959 to January 1961.  She then transferred to the University of Chicago and earned three degrees.  She got a Bachelors of Arts in June 1963 then a Masters in 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 Law(contracted; show full)[[Category:Weather Underground]]
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