America’s most wanted: my family on the run, part 1
Lives Less Ordinary

America’s most wanted: my family on the run, part 1

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 14, 202636 min

In some ways Zayd Ayers Dohrn’s childhood was normal; his parents went to work and played with him in the park. Though in other ways it was anything but: moving between safe houses, fleeing in the night as the FBI moved in. His parents were the leaders of a violent revolutionary group called the Weathermen and then the Weather Underground, which the US government classed as a domestic terror group. They opposed the Vietnam war and racism in American society. They drew attention to their cause though bombing campaigns targeting government institutions from police stations to the Pentagon. Th...

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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. Argea. Tonto e gar ulta. Gole argeo amu.

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Sí, tense in yo gun. Gogele pe mea hergo. Oi yo guni gamago. Elo vena.

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Teita elo. Most of my friends were other children in the movement. So we called ourselves Weather Kids and Panther Cubs, the children of weathermen and Black Panthers.

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