May 6, 2013 - Ayers defends actions, rejects comparison to Boston bombers ... when a bomb they were making in a Greenwich Village townhouse exploded. ... and future wife Bernadine Dohrn set the bomb that killed San Francisco Park Police Sgt. Brian McDonnell in 1970
When Ayers retired as a "professor", his school was going to award him some honor.
A former cop from the time that had had his hand blown off disposing of one of Ayers & Co's. bombs showed up to argue against the award, and the optics weren't good for the school at that point.