Bernardine Rae Dohrn is a retired law professor and a former leader of the far-left militant organization Weather Underground in the United States.
28 Facts About Bernardine Dohrn
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Bernardine Dohrn remained a fugitive, even though she was removed from the list.
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Bernardine Dohrn had graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967.
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From 1991 to 2013, Bernardine Dohrn was a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law.
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Bernardine Dohrn is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground.
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Bernardine Dohrn was born Bernardine Ohrnstein in Chicago, Illinois, in 1942, and moved to Whitefish Bay, an upper-middle-class suburb of Milwaukee as a young child, where she was raised the majority of her childhood.
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Bernardine Dohrn's father was Jewish, although the name change was intended to obscure that, and her mother, Dorothy, was of Swedish background and a Christian Scientist.
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Bernardine Dohrn graduated from Whitefish Bay High School, where she was a cheerleader, treasurer of the Modern Dance Club, a member of the National Honor Society, and editor of the school newspaper.
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Bernardine Dohrn received her JD from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967.
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Bernardine Dohrn became one of the leaders of the Revolutionary Youth Movement, a radical wing of Students for a Democratic Society, in the late 1960s.
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Bernardine Dohrn led the Weatherman faction in the SDS fight and continued to be a leader afterward.
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On May 26,1968, as a speaker for the National Lawyers Guild, Bernardine Dohrn 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 represented students from Columbia University who were striking and protesting.
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On June 14,1968, Bernardine Dohrn was elected the Inter-organizational Secretary of SDS, and, once elected, was asked if she was a socialist.
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On January 29 and 30,1969, in recognition of the tenth anniversary of the Cuban Revolution, the University of Washington held a Cuba teach-in where Bernardine Dohrn was a speaker on campus.
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Bernardine Dohrn was a principal signatory on the Weather Underground's "Declaration of a State of War" in May 1970 that formally declared "war" on the US Government, and completed the group's transformation from political advocacy to violent action.
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Bernardine Dohrn recorded the declaration and sent a transcript of a tape recording to The New York Times.
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Bernardine Dohrn co-wrote and published the subversive manifesto Prairie Fire in 1974 and participated in the covertly filmed Underground in 1976.
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In late 1975, the Weather Underground put out an issue of a magazine, Osawatamie, which carried an article by Bernardine Dohrn entitled "Our Class Struggle"; the article was described as a speech given to the organization's cadres on September 2 of that year.
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Bernardine Dohrn was criticized for comments she made about the murders of actress Sharon Tate and retail store owners Leno and Rosemary LaBianca by the Charles Manson clan.
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On September 26,1969, Bernardine Dohrn was arrested again in Chicago during a rally in support of the eight men accused of conspiracy concerning protests during the 1968 Democratic National Convention, who were on trial for riot conspiracy charges.
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Bernardine Dohrn was next arrested on October 9,1969, by the Chicago police during a rally for the women's faction of the Weathermen group and was later released on a one thousand dollar bond.
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Bernardine Dohrn was removed in December 1973, after District Court Judge Damon Keith dismissed the case against the Weathermen.
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Bernardine Dohrn had been charged with leading the riotous "Days of Rage".
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From 1984 to 1988, Dohrn was employed by the Chicago law firm Sidley Austin, where she was hired by Howard Trienens, the head of the firm, who knew Thomas G Ayers, Dohrn's father-in-law.
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However, Bernardine Dohrn had not been admitted to the New York or Illinois bar even though she had passed both bar exams; she did not submit an application to the New York Supreme Court's Committee on Character and Fitness, and she was turned down by the Illinois ethics committee because of her criminal record.
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In 1991, Bernardine Dohrn was hired by Northwestern University School of Law as an adjunct professor.
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Bernardine Dohrn was one of the founders of the Children and Family Justice Center in the Bluhm Legal Clinic at Northwestern Law.
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Bernardine Dohrn espoused during the 1960s, her career at the law school is an example of a person's ability to make a difference in the legal system.