Ayers and Dohrn are well-known to people my age. As Kurtz relays it in a recent interview: In , Ayers, along with wife Dohrn, were indicted for inciting a riot and conspiracy to bomb government buildings. Dohrn was convicted; Ayers was not. I feel we didn't do enough. Today we would consider these to be acts of domestic terrorism when coming from the opposite end of the political spectrum with someone like the Oklahoma bomber, Timothy McVeigh.
Between and , Obama led the CAC, which was founded by Ayers, and remained on the board until Obama, a former community organizer fresh out of law school, could vault to the top of a new foundation? The statement says Deborah Leff and Patricia Albjerg Graham presidents of other foundations recruited him. Yet the archives show that, along with Ms. Leff and Ms. Graham, Mr. Ayers was one of a working group of five who assembled the initial board in Ayers founded CAC and was its guiding spirit.
No one would have been appointed the CAC chairman without his approval. Dow Jones. Opinion Read the Latest. By Stanley Kurtz. To Read the Full Story.
Subscribe Sign In. Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership. Resume Subscription We are delighted that you'd like to resume your subscription. Nor has Mr. Obama ever expressed sympathy for the radical views and actions of Mr. He said the two last saw each other more than a year ago, when they accidentally met on the street in their Hyde Park neighborhood. Obama, Oct. By the time I met him, 10 or 15 years ago, he was a college professor of education at the University of Illinois.
The members of the new group, the Weather Underground, favored shows of violence to further their cause. On March 6, , though, three of them blew themselves up in a Greenwich Village townhouse during a bomb-making session gone badly awry.
Ayers and his fellow Weathermen, as they were called, soon dropped out of sight. Barack Obama, who was born Aug. Nobody was killed, due to evacuation warnings the Weathermen sent out in advance. In Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn, another member, surfaced and turned themselves in to police. Because of illegal federal wiretaps, pending charges against Ayers for allegedly inciting a riot and conspiring to bomb government sites had been dropped.
Ayers and Dohrn, who had had two children together while in hiding, married in Several other Weather Underground alums, including Kathy Boudin, along with some members of a group calling itself the Black Liberation Army, were involved in a bungled robbery of a Brinks truck in Nanuet, N. Ayers and Dohrn have never been publicly tied to the incident, which took place after they had turned themselves in.
Dohrn was jailed for seven months for refusing to provide a handwriting sample to the grand jury investigating it. Dohrn is now a clinical associate professor of law at Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago.
Ayers is a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His father was a prominent corporate executive and civic leader. Thomas G. Ayers was president and chief executive of Commonwealth Edison, the electric utility that lights Chicago and northern Illinois. There is a residence hall named for him at Northwestern University, where he was a trustee for 30 years.
But when the quotes appeared on the same day thousands died at the World Trade Center and elsewhere, they enraged his critics.
Ayers called the story a deliberate distortion of his views. In a response on his blog , Ayers wrote:. Ayers: My memoir is from start to finish a condemnation of terrorism, of the indiscriminate murder of human beings, whether driven by fanaticism or official policy.
According to an Obama spokesman, the two men first met in , when Obama was tapped to chair the board of the newly formed Chicago Annenberg Challenge. It was the largest single gift ever made to public education in America.
Mayor Richard M. Daley, a Democrat, and Gov. Jim Edgar, a Republican, took part in a ceremony announcing the grant. There are other connections between Obama and Ayers: The same year the two men met through the Annenberg Challenge, Ayers hosted a meet-and-greet coffee for Obama, who was running for state Senate and who lived three blocks away from him. Obama and Ayers also were on the board of an antipoverty charity, the Woods Fund of Chicago, where their service overlapped from to
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