Bernardine Dohrn
Law professor, Film actor
1942 –
Who is Bernardine Dohrn?
Bernardine Rae Dohrn was a leader of 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 well as a Greenwich Village townhouse explosion that killed a member of the Underground. As a member of the Weather Underground, Dohrn helped to create 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. From 1991 to 2013 she was a Clinical Associate Professor of Law at the Children and Family Justice Center at Northwestern University School of Law. She is married to Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weather Underground, who was formerly a tenured professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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- Born
- Jan 12, 1942
Milwaukee - Also known as
- Bernardine Rae Ohrnstein
- Bernadine Ohrnstein
- H.T. Smith
- Marion Del Gado
- Christine Louise Douglas
- Parents
- Spouses
- Bill Ayers
(1982 - )
- Bill Ayers
- Children
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Miami University
- University of Chicago Law School
- Whitefish Bay High School
- University of Miami
- Employment
- Northwestern University
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on July 23, 2013
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