BILL AYERS seemed flabbergasted to hear that Leo Burt is still on the run. And I have to admit, I was flabbergasted that Ayers was flabbergasted.
….Ayers and I were chatting in advance of his appearance tonight, with his wife Bernardine Dohrn, at the Wisconsin Book Festival. Currently college professors in Chicago, Ayers and Dohrn are famous – or infamous, depending on your take – for their association, three decades ago, with the Weather Underground, a Vietnam War-era radical group that advocated and practiced violence against establishment targets.
….Burt, of course, is the last fugitive from the Vietnam protest era, 36 years and counting since the August 1970 bombing of the Army Math Research Center in Sterling Hall, a blast that did $6 million damage and took the life of a young researcher, Robert Fassnacht, who was working late in the building when the bomb went off.