The operation cost under $500, and no one was killed or even hurt.[19]. The second was to create underground collectives in major cities throughout the country. [32], Chicago Magazine reported that "just before the September 11th attacks", Richard Elrod, a city lawyer injured in the Weathermen's Chicago "Days of Rage", received an apology from Ayers and Dohrn for their part in the violence. [75][76][77][78], In an op-ed piece after the election, Ayers denied any close association with Obama, and criticized the Republican campaign for its use of guilt by association tactics. Ayers, who co-founded the Weather Underground in 1969, took part in the bombings of the New York City Police Department headquarters in 1970, … His worldview and tactics are evolved and elaborate, thoughtful and wise, making him unrecognizable to the media's caricature. "[46][47], Ayers has edited and written many books and articles on education theory, policy and practice, and has received several honors for his work.

In 2001, Ayers published Fugitive Days: A Memoir, which he explained in part as an attempt to answer the questions of Kathy Boudin's son, and his speculation that Diana Oughton died trying to stop the Greenwich Village bomb-makers. The settlers fought and killed one another in a prelude to the Civil War known as “Bleeding Kansas.”.

[7] Ayers earned a Bachelor of Arts in American Studies from the University of Michigan in 1968. We destroyed government property". [36][37] In a November 2008 interview with The New Yorker, Ayers said that he had not meant to imply that he wished he and the Weathermen had committed further violence. [58] Since 1999, he has served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund of Chicago, an anti-poverty, philanthropic foundation established as the Woods Charitable Fund in 1941. Ayers grew up in Glen Ellyn, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. [Laughs] We have always been small 'c' communists in the sense that we were never in the Communist party and never Stalinists. In response to Grathwohl's claims, Ayers stated, "Now that's being blown into dishonest narratives about hurting people, killing people, planning to kill people.
[11], The group Ayers headed in Detroit, Michigan, became one of the earliest gatherings of what became the Weathermen.

Dohrn was still reluctant to turn herself in to authorities. Two major decisions came out of the "War Council". After the 2008 presidential election, Ayers published an op-ed piece in The New York Times giving his assessment of his activism. His book To Teach: The Journey of A Teacher was named the Kappa Delta Pi Book of the Year in 1993 and subsequently won the Witten award for Distinguished Work in Biography and Autobiography in 1995. [72], On June 18, 2013, Ayers gave an interview to RealClearPolitics' Morning Commute in which he stated that every president in this century should be tried for war crimes, including President Obama for his use of drone attacks, which Ayers considers an act of terror. The American Educational Research Association elected him vice president for curriculum studies. He also condemned the September 11 terrorist attacks in that letter. Race in Major Victory for Progressive Prosecutor Movement", "Bill Ayers collected news and commentary", Video interview with Brandon Kosters of F Newsmagazine 19 February 2009, Interview with Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers, Which Way The Wind Blows: Bill Ayers On Obama, Bill Ayers: Radical Education Theory Gets Graphic, June 8, 2010, Rag Radio interview with Bill Ayers, February 4, 2011, Rag Radio interview with Bill Ayers and Rick Ayers, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Bill_Ayers&oldid=979117949, Teachers College, Columbia University alumni, Members of Students for a Democratic Society (1960 organization), University of Illinois at Chicago faculty, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts alumni, Articles with dead external links from October 2010, Wikipedia indefinitely move-protected pages, Wikipedia pending changes protected pages, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with Trove identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 18 September 2020, at 21:45.