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What were the politics of my family? They were mainstream moderate politics.
Bill Ayers
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Bill Ayers
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: December 26
Autobiographer
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Glen Ellyn
Illinois
William Charles Bill Ayers
William Charles Ayers
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It's the height of the Cold War, but I grew up in apolitical family and politics wasn't on the agenda.
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I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.
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