Bill Ayers & Bernardine Dohrn, Weather Underground Terrorists' Former Home

            "Guilty as hell, free as a bird—America is a great country." -Bill Ayers
"Revolutionary violence is the only way." -Bernardine Dohrn

Before ANTIFA and BLM, there was the Weather Underground Organization, an American domestic terrorist group that operated between 1969 and about 1977. Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn were two early leaders of the organization. Dedicated to achieving "the destruction of U.S. imperialism and form a classless communist world" they wrought violence across the country.

In 1969 the WUO bombed the Haymarket Riot statue commemorating the police officers killed during that conflict, then bombed it again in 1970. Later that same year they rioted in Chicago's Gold Coast, smashing windows and cars. 1,000 police faced off against them. 68 rioters were arrested and six were shot by police.

Also in 1969, in the wake of the killing of Black Panther Fred Hampton, several police cars were bombed outside the 23rd district Town Hall police station.

After Ayers bombed the New York Police Department in 1970, the US Capitol in 1971, and the Pentagon a year later, he became wanted by the FBI. He went into hiding. After he came out charges were dismissed because the FBI used illegal tactics against him such as wiretaps and searches without warrants. Dohrn, his wife, was also pardoned due to this misconduct but spent several months in prison for contempt of a grand jury.

In 2008 Ayers gained public attention because of his past association with Barack Obama, including an education panel organized by Michelle Obama.

Before retiring, Ayers and Dohrn spent their last years as professors at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University School of Law, respectively. Ayers was denied emeritus status after board chair Christopher G. Kennedy, the son of Robert Kennedy, pointed out a dedication Ayers put to Kennedy assassin Sirhan Sirhan in the WUO book "Prairie Fire."

Located at 1329 E 50th St.

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Taken on: July 3, 2020

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