Posted on 04/10/2013 6:16:10 PM PDT by Libloather
Bill Ayers is one strange guy.
Ayers was one of the founders of the radical 1960's group the Weather Underground. His group was responsible for bombing the Pentagon, the U.S. Capitol and a New York police station as a way of protesting American involvement in the Vietnam War.
He is also credited with launching the political career of President Barack Obama. They lived in the same neighborhood, their wives worked together, and Ayers hosted a fundraiser for a young Obama back in 1995.
Ayers has long been unrepentant about his anti government activities during the 1960s, despite the fact that three of his colleagues actually died during a botched bomb making mission in the late 1960s.
For the better part of a year I had been trying to line up an interview with Ayers. He does a lot of traveling and public speaking now. We exchanged emails from around the world. He would write me back from Germany and Egypt. I could never get him to commit to a specific time. I felt like he slipped through the cracks over and over again. He rarely does interviews and I just couldnt get him locked down.
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