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Bill Ayers Leader of the Weather Underground, a domestic terrorist group of the 1960s and ’70s “Kill all the rich people. … Bring the revolution home. Kill your parents.” Participated in the bombings of New York City Police Headquarters in 1970, the Capitol building in 1971, and the Pentagon in 1972 Worked as a professor of education at the University of Illinois from 1987-2010 In the late Sixties, Ayers became a leader of the Weather Underground (WU), a splinter faction of the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). Characterizing WU as “an American Red Army,” Ayers summed up the organization’s ideology as follows: “Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, Kill your parents.” One of Ayers’ fellow WU leaders was Bernardine Dohrn, the woman who would later become his wife. https://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individuals/bill-ayers/