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The Child of Revolutionaries, Running From the FBI

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News, Politics, News Commentary

4.2 • 726 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Even as a young child, Zayd Ayers Dohrn knew that the FBI was after his family. His parents Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers had been living as fugitives for years, wanted for their leadership of the Weather Underground Organization, a communist revolutionary group known for their bombings of American institutions like the Pentagon and US Capitol. In his new book, “Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young” Dohrn recounts his childhood on the run and grapples with the complicated legacy he inherits from revolutionary parents, who to some are seen as heroic outlaws and to others as terrorists. Guests: Zayd Ayers Dohrn, author, "Dangerous, Dirty, Violent & Young;"professor, Northwestern University; playwright Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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The atmosphere of the 1970s remains ungraspable to me as a child of the 80s.

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The radical movements in the 60s had either dissipated or gotten serious, and among the latter group, perhaps

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the most prominent was the Weather Underground. A sometime and fraught partner of the underground

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offshoot of the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, an unabashedly anti-imperialist,

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the Weather Underground orchestrated a series of bombings through the years of that decade,

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hitting the NYPD, the Pentagon, the Capitol building.

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And though they took some care to avoid hurting people with these explosions,

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they were nonetheless fighting a symbolic kind of insurgency against the American establishment in the 1970s. At the same time, they were also children in the 1970s.

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