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Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn at Obama Center Opening Catch up quick: Ayers and Dohrn became household names in the late 1960s during the anti-Vietnam War protest movement. They became leaders in the Weather Underground, which broke from peaceful anti-war protests and carried out a campaign of bombings targeting government buildings and other symbols of authority. After an accidental explosion in a Greenwich Village townhouse killed three Weather Underground members in 1970, Ayers and Dohrn went underground and became fugitives, landing on the FBI's most-wanted list. Charges against them were later dismissed because of government misconduct. The couple returned to Chicago and became fixtures in Hyde Park and both taught at UIC and Northwestern. The intrigue: They were politically active, too. In 1995, they held a casual party at their house to introduce friends to "a skinny kid with a funny name" named Barack Obama. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bernardine-dohrn/