Bernardine Dohrn

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Bernardine Rae Dohrn (born Ohrnstein; born January 12, 1942 in Chicago ) is an American lawyer and was a leader of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO).

Mug shot of the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Lists from 1970

Dohrn studied political science at the University of Chicago , where she received her bachelor's degree in 1963 and her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1967 . She co-founded the WUO in the late 1960s and was arrested several times in late 1969, including during the Days of Rage in Chicago. In 1970, Dohrn contributed to the Declaration of a State of War against the US government and to a number of WUO communiqués . She was on the FBI's FBI Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list between 1970 and 1973 and lived underground with her husband and children for a long time.

Between 1984 and 1988 she worked for the Sidley & Austin law firm . From 1991 to 2013 she was 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 Organization, who was a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

literature

  • Ron Chepesiuk: Sixties Radicals, Then and Now: Candid Conversations with Those Who Shaped the Era. McFarland, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7864-3732-0 , pp. 223-239.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b CV - Bernardine Dohrn. ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Northwestern University School of Law, 2012. Retrieved December 20, 2014. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.law.northwestern.edu
  2. ↑ Patricia Lear: Rebel Without a Pause. Chicago Magazine, May 1993. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
  3. ^ Hank Adler: Bernardine Dohrn's Nomination For The First Circuit Court of Appeals. Townhall.com, April 21, 2014. Retrieved December 20, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Dohrn, Bernardine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dohrn, Bernardine Rae (full name); Ohrnstein, Bernardine (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer, leader of the Weather Underground Organization (WUO)
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Chicago