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	Bill Ayers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ayers went underground with several comrades after their co-conspirators' bomb accidentally exploded in 1970, destroying a Greenwich Village townhouse and killing some of the activists involved.
		Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn raised two children underground before turning themselves in in 1981, when most charges were dropped because of what Ayers described as "extreme governmental misconduct" during the long search for the fugitives.
		Ayers is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Ayers (229 words)

	The Independent Weekly: Bombs Away
		Ayers is unapologetic about his activities as a radical activist, and writes with pride, "Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon." He also gleefully recounts his role in breaking Timothy Leary out of jail.
		Ayers has had to change some names and places, which he is open about, and he is even more open about the gray areas of memory and the incompleteness of his memoir.
		Ayers repeatedly points out how limited his account is, which sometimes comes close to defeating the strengths of the rest of the book.
	www.indyweek.com /durham/2001-10-24/ae3.html (655 words)

	Fugitive Days
		During that period Ayers was the leader of the Michigan region, and then of the Detroit collective, which was one of the earliest formations of what became the “Weatherman faction.” He later joined the leadership collective of the Weather Underground.
		Ayers recounts believably that, after the explosion in the Greenwich Village townhouse, differences existed among those in leadership between those who wanted to build a fighting force to do material damage and those who wanted to carry out occasional, symbolic, armed propaganda.
		For Ayers to claim that all of the craziness of late 1969 and early 1970 just sort of happened, that his “CW” character (who was not me despite the uncanny similarity of initials) and Robbins were primarily responsible for the disastrous bombing at the Greenwich Village townhouse, takes himself completely out of the process.
	www.zmag.org /ZMag/Articles/dec01wilkerson.htm (1806 words)

	Online NewsHour: Graying Radicals -- August 22, 1996
		BILL AYERS: We reached a point where we were operating outside of the law, and that is a lot because we were being harassed by the law, and the law was acting outside the law.
		BILL AYERS: I It was a terrible tragedy and one that caused, I think, a huge not only sense of loss but kind of a permanent scar but also a, a moment to stop and think and pull back from what might have been a real, really disastrous course.
		BILL AYERS: The kind of intimacy that we have has developed over, you know, 25 years, and, and includes raising three extraordinary kids, and really sharing every minute of that.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/weather/radicals_8-22.html (1886 words)

	Fugitive Days : A Memoir (Bill Ayers) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bill Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn are two very sad indviduals, as the they (to-this-day) continue to rationlize their destructive, criminal behavior during their Weather Underground days.
		Bill Ayers fondly recalls those wondrous days of blowing up the Pentagon, trying to murder and blow up the "pigs" and other innocents who didn't share his beliefs or those of his fellow pychos.
		Ayers and his ilk came from wealthy, white-bread families and this was a chance for them to dramatize their poor, boring lives by pretending to be social outlaws.
	www.ka-tet-corp.com /portal/webstore/us/product/0142002550.htm (600 words)

	Billy Ayers: Weathercop
		Ayers was one of a group of Weatherman members who went underground after the Days of Rage, a mano a mano protest that was waged to "bring the war home" in Chicago in 1969.
		Ayers does a remarkable job of re-creating not just the grass-roots political events of the 1960s and '70s but also the developments and feelings, the sense of urgency, that brought participants, many like him young and affluent, to pit themselves in a visceral struggle against their government.
		Ayers, who gained notoriety as a member of a political fringe group known as the Weathermen, is still living in the past but has chosen to tell only part of the story.
	www.pipeline.com /~rgibson/ayers.htm (1325 words)

	The Postmodern Campus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayers recalls participating in campus debates and demonstrations with glowing zeal and excitement; he had found something which seemed to fuse his lust for women, adventure, politics, and exploration all in one.
		Ayers viewed his first arrest, participating in a sit-in at the local Ann Arbor draft board, as a personally and morally galvanizing event, thrusting him into a pantheon of the righteously disobedient: Ghandi, Thoreau, and the civil rights activists in the American south.
		Ayers' memoir continues from these early and formative Ann Arbor days to many more: drilling in Detroit for the revolution, participating in the protests of the 1968 Chicago Democratic Party national convention, dynamiting statues and buildings, awaiting a phone call by a roadside telephone, and most of all living on the run from federal authorities.
	www.robgoodspeed.info /ayers-12-6-02.htm (1632 words)

	Bill Ayers: Fugitive Days
		Ayers chooses to focus on the theme of "memory" throughout the book, mostly to make the point that his account is incomplete and biased.
		Ayers tends to present each part of his story with the perspective he had at the time, only implying criticisms of them afterward.
		While Ayers describes the period of over-bearing criticism within the group as focusing constantly on "political line," in reality the group consistently had a problem with recognizing the role of line--not surprising, as for them 'line' included choice of sexual partners.
	www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/sds/ayers.html (1288 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayers, now a prominent education scholar at the University of Illinois-Chicago, will speak on the topic âRadical Activism in the 1960s.â Ayersâ appearance is open to the public and sponsored by the Dickinson State University History Society.
		Ayers managed to stay one step ahead of authorities, living in 15 different states while on the lam, an experience he recounts in his 2001 memoir titled âFugitive Days.â Charges against Ayers were dropped in 1974 due to prosecutorial misconduct and illegal surveillance.
		Bill Ayers is a member of and, now, the 'hero' of the eight million or so elites of the Boomer generation who carried out a counter-culture revolution on our nations campuses during the mid-1960s and 1970s.
	www.studentsforacademicfreedom.org /bbs/viewTopic.asp?forumId=1&msgId=341 (5266 words)

	Fugitive Days -- A Memoir -- Bill Ayers
		Ayers begins with his education as a rebel, his increasing sense of horror at the American involvement in Viet Nam, and his growing love for his comrade Diana Oughton.
		Bill Ayers’ memoir of his days with the Weather Underground, a radical group opposed to the United States involvement in the Vietnam War and racism at home, is a riveting and troubling look at the political fervor of the 1960s and 1970s and how it dramatically changed his life.
		Bill Ayers, the product of a wealthy Midwestern upbringing and prep school education, diverged from the path laid out for him after dropping out of college.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0807071242 (605 words)

	Powell's Books - Fugitive Days: A Memoir by Bill Ayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bill Ayers was born into privilege and is today a highly respected educator and community activist.
		Ayers writes openly about his regrets and what he continues to believe was right.
		Bill Ayers, author of A Kind and Just Parent and many other books on education, is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and director of the Center for Youth and Society.
	www.powells.com /cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=7-0142002550-1 (355 words)

	Flak Magazine: Review of Fugitive Days, 10-15-01
		Ayers details his life from birth through an idyllic 1950s childhood and subsequent activist awakening at the University of Michigan in the 1960s, an awakening that, given his penchant for writing exquisite descriptions of the women he meets, seems to be as much about getting laid as getting justice.
		Ayers, and the others, re-emerged in 1981 after one Weatherman, Kathy Boudin, participated in a Brinks truck robbery attempt that ended with two cohorts shooting and killing two Nyack, N.Y., police officers.
		Ayers begins the book with the sentence, "Memory is a motherfucker," which is a running theme about how memory can betray you, although it's possibly also a justification for leaving certain events out — such as almost everything that happened to Ayers between 1973 and 1981.
	www.flakmag.com /books/fugitive.html (699 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Fugitive Days : A Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayers discusses his reservations about the use of violence to achieve an end to violence (reservations he held then as well), but he is unrepentant in believing that America was the aggressor against North Vietnam and that right-minded people have an obligation to resist unjust wars.
		Ayers' life on the run after three of his comrades vaporized themselves in the infamous New York City townhouse explosion when the bomb they had built to place in an army installation detonated prematurely, but is in reality nothing more than a lengthy rehash of the Weathermen's skewed philosophy.
		Ayers and his wife adopted and raised her son), a "freedom fighter" imprisoned for her part in the "expropriation", i.e., armed robbery, of a Brinks truck that left two police officers and a security guard dead.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0142002550?v=glance (2376 words)

	Allies in War (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		The point of the omissions is to hide from others (and from Ayers himself) the real-world consequences of the anti-American ideologies, which took root in the Sixties and now flourish on college campuses across the country.
		Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn are a far more typical academic couple, and their NY Times interlocutor a far more familiar arbiter of information to the American public than is comforting to consider.
		I interviewed Ayers ten years ago, in a kindergarten classroom in uptown Manhattan where he was employed to shape the minds of inner city children.
	www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=1021 (2163 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Bill Ayers
		Ayers' dilemma as an author is that he wants to talk, but can't--not without incriminating himself and others.
		Ayers insists that he and his ilk were "exiles in America," but that's not how I remember it.
		Ayers insists that he and his comrades lived a more or less working-class life on the lam.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/09.13.01/fugitivedays-0137.html (720 words)

	Why Do We Coddle Left Wing Terrorists? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayers admits that he is a terrorist and in a recent book says that he would do it all over again if he had to.
		But Ayers is not an outlaw or a pariah -- in fact he holds down a prestigious academic position and was about to embark on a tour to promote his memoirs before the September 11 attacks.
		Despite his terrorist past, Ayers had no problem obtaining a position as a professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where he's found the time to write four books.
	www.leftwatch.com /articles/2001/000132.html (450 words)

	AGR Online/ Commentary
		Today, Ayers is Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and Director of the Center for Youth and Society.
		Bill Ayers will be speaking at Malaprop’s bookstore on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7pm.
		Ayers: Well, I think you’re absolutely right, first of all, that people don’t know and that’s part of the legacy of living in a country with a short attention span.
	www.agrnews.org /issues/145/commentary.html (2653 words)

	Bill Ayers Baseball Stats by Baseball Almanac
		B ill Ayers was born on Saturday, September 27, 1919, in Newnan, Georgia.
		Ayers was 28 years old when he broke into the big leagues on April 17, 1947, with the New York Giants, and his Major League Baseball stats for every season he played, along with his career totals are on this page.
		B aseball Almanac is pleased to present a comprehensive player registry for Bill Ayers which includes his biographical data, year-by-year statistics, career totals, and miscellaneous items-of-interest.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /players/player.php?p=ayersbi01 (312 words)

	OpinionJournal - Extra
		Ayers was promoting his book, "Fugitive Days," a memoir of his time in the Weather Underground.
		Ayers, it's a fair bet that a sizable portion of the audience were subscribers to The Nation; they nodded approvingly at his most preposterous pronouncements, including his suggestion that CNN has a right-wing slant and the BBC is more objective.
		Ayers is fascinating and sickening; he personifies the moral bankruptcy of the far left.
	www.opinionjournal.com /extra/?id=95001485 (796 words)

	The Claremont Institute: Fire, Seen Through Frosted Glass
		Ayers makes no effort to hide those views in the present writing; indeed, he trumps up the "inherent violence" of the America of that time to justify the bombings and brutalities by his organization.
		Ayers over the placement of one bomb, which could easily kill fl patrons who favored an adjacent restaurant, but that Ayers dismissed such sentimentality as unrevolutionary.
		Rudd's former accomplices, Bill Ayers and Dianna Oughton, worked in a pre-school during their years in the movement, and today he is "Distinguished Professor of Education at the University of Illinois, Chicago." The author of several books, including A Kind and Just Parent, Ayers knows a lot about shaping with words.
	www.claremont.org /writings/040114harmon.html?FORMAT=print (880 words)

	The Daily Northwestern {11.16.2001} (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bill Ayers signs a copy of his memoirs, "Fugitive Days," at Barnes & Noble, 1701 Sherman Ave., on Thursday night.
		Ayers promoted "Fugitive Days," an account of his experiences in the Weather Underground activist group of the late 1960s and his subsequent run from the government, to more than 70 vocal supporters and critics at Barnes & Noble, 1701 Sherman Ave.
		Ayers opted to read three passages from the book's first half, describing his mother, his first war protest and his experience in Students for a Democratic Society, the activist group from which the Weathermen branched off.
	www.dailynorthwestern.com /daily/issues/2001/11/16/campus/n-ayers.shtml (596 words)

	Books \| Weatherman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayers, a middle-class Chicago native radicalized by the Vietnam War, became a founder and leader of the Weathermen.
		But when Ayers repeats his warning and philosophizes about the uncertainty of memory, he undermines his claim of honesty.
		Ayers seems to be a presence in Chicago, a valued colleague and friend.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /boston/arts/books/documents/02025370.htm (809 words)

	Evening Session: North Coast Education Summit (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Bill Ayers is a professor of education, leader of the small-schools movement, former elementary school teacher, and the author of the award-winning book " To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, " an inspiring text read by credential candidates, school teachers, and parents around the world.
		He is also a political activist, social change visionary, and author of "Fugitive Days: A Memoir," a just-published account of his controversial days as a sixties revolutionary and leader of the Weathermen, considered by many to be the most radical political group in U.S. history.
		Ayers will speak about threats to democracy, the connection between activism and education, and ways in which teachers can change the world.
	www.humboldt.edu /%7Ecops/nces/evening.htm (297 words)

	9/18/93 PSTA Brd Mt Mins.
		It was suggested that Bill Ayers appoint an ad hoc committee (to include Bill and Cathy) to solicit funds from business and industry for the annual convention.
		Bill asked that all Representatives send to him ASAP their projected budgets for 2004.
		Bill informed the Board that he had received a request for affiliate status from the Pennsylvania Student Science and Engineering Consortium.
	www.pascience.org /minutes/min_sept_27_03.htm (1456 words)

	The New American - "Respectable" Terrorists - November 19, 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Ayers describes the Weather Underground as "an American Red Army," and it was indeed the American element of what terrorism expert Claire Sterling has called the Soviet-organized "Terror International." The watershed event in organizing the Soviet-sponsored global terror network was the January 1966 Tricontinental Conference in Havana.
		Although Ayers insists that his terrorist group targeted "symbols" rather than people, the bomb that killed his three comrades was an anti-personnel weapon tightly packed with screws and nails.
		Ayers admits that the bomb would have done "some serious work beyond the blast, tearing through windows and walls and, yes, people too." The victims would have included the women who had been brought to the dance as dates.
	www.thenewamerican.com /tna/2001/11-19-2001/vo17no24_terrorists.htm (2364 words)

	Commentary Magazine - Fugitive Days by Bill Ayers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		This memoir by Bill Ayers, an active terrorist in the late 1960's and 1970's, is, he admits, "not exactly" the truth, although he adds that "it feels entirely honest to me."
		...BILL AYERS currently serves as distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois-Chicago...
		...Ayers, Dohrn, and several others were subjected to a purge trial and forced to make abject confessions of guilt for such sins as white chauvinism and counterrevolutionism before being expelled...
	www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V112I5P81-1.htm (2209 words)

	Volatile times / Ex-revolutionary Bill Ayers recalls a decade on the run and building bombs to stop the Vietnam war
		What was so striking about Ayers (and not just him -- that's why his book is important), as he tells it, is his sense of personal responsibility for the war.
		Ayers admitted in the New Yorker piece that he was "hugely lucky." Would he have been able to wax as sweetly nostalgic about his fiery youth if fate hadn't pulled him and his comrades back from the brink of inflicting harm on people as well as property?
		For Ayers it was the three, martyrs to him, who died making a bomb in the Townhouse (he always capitalizes it).
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/09/RV162186.DTL (1374 words)

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