Son of radicals, Zayd Ayers Dohrn grew up underground & on the run
18 May - 44 mins
Podcast Series
Fresh Air
"From my very first memories, I knew that the FBI was chasing us," Zayd Ayers Dohrn says. "My parents tried to explain it in terms [like] we were like Robin Hood or we were like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars. So I knew in the way a kid knows that our lives were precarious."
His mother, Bernardine Dohrn, was a leader of the '60s radical student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which opposed the war in Vietnam and racism. Along with his father, Bill Ayers, she helped found the Weather Underground, a group committed to armed resistance against the government.
Dohrn spoke with Terry Gross about his radical childhood on the run, visiting his mom in prison, and the questions he...
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