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On January 29 and 30, 1969, in recognition of the tenth anniversary of the revolution, the University of Washington held a Cuba teach-in and Bernardine Dohrn was a speaker on campus. Bernardine Dohrn attended a regional conference held for the leaders of the SDS on April 14, 1969. A month later at a press conference at the regional headquarters of SDS in Chicago on, Bernardine Dohrn spoke of the plans that were under way to "attack" college graduation ceremonies across the country. She said, "our presence will be known at the graduation ceremonies where the big people will come as speakers." Bernardine Dohrn was now known as a National Interim Committee member of the SDS and a member of the Weatherman group. She traveled to Cuba via Mexico City on July 4, 1969, with a delegation from the SDS and later arrived in Canada on a Cuban Vessel on August 16, 1969. On August 22, 1969, Bernardine Dohrn was arrested in Chicago and charged with possession of drugs. On September 9, 1969, Judge Kenneth R. Wendt of Narcotics court of Chicago dismissed the charges. The defense attorney said there was an illegal search of the car in which she was a passenger. On September 20, 1969, there was an anti-Vietnam rally at the Davis cup tennis tournament and the police became involved, twenty persons were arrested and among them was twenty seven year old Bernardine Dohrn. She was charged with disorderly conduct. On September 26, 1969, Bernardine Dohrn was arrested in Chicago during a demonstration. The rally was in support of the Chicago 8, who were being tried on riot conspiracy charges. Bernardine Dohrn was arrested on October 9, 1969, by the Chicago police during a rally for women’s faction of the Weathermen group. She was later released on a one thousand dollar bond. On October 31, 1969, a grand jury indicted 22 people including Bernardine Dohrn because of her involvement with the trial of the 8 men accused of conspiracy concerning the riot during the 1968 Democratic National Convention. On April 2, 1970, in Chicago a Federal Grand Jury indicted 12 members of the Weatherman group and among them was Bernardine Dohrn on conspiracy charges to violate the anti-riot act during the "[[Days of Rage]]" which was held in Chicago on October 8 through 11, 1969.<ref name="autogenerated1975"/>
On November 21, 1972, all of the convictions were reversed by the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit]] on the basis that the judge was biased in his refusal to permit defense attorneys to screen prospective jurors for cultural and racial bias.<ref>''United States v. Dellinger'', 472 F.2d 340 (7th Cir. 1972).</ref> Dohrn later split from SDS on account of it being too passive in its opposition to the Vietnam War.<ref>{{cite web|last=Regnery|first=Alfred S.|title=They're All in This Together|url=http://spectator.org/archives/2011/09/02/theyre-all-in-this-together/print#|work=The American Spectator|publisher=The American Spectator|accessdate=5 September 2011}}</ref>
===1970s===
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