Zayd Ayers Dohrn walks with his parents Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn outside the Federal Court Building in New York, May 17, 1982. David Handschuh/Associated Press hide caption toggle caption David Handschuh/Associated Press Zayd Ayers Dohrn spent much of his childhood underground and on the run. His mother, Bernardine Dohrn, was a leader of the ’60s radical student group Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which opposed the war in Vietnam and racism. Along with Dohrn’s father, Bill Ayers, she helped found the Weather Underground, a group committed to armed resistance against the government. “From my very first memories, I knew that the FBI was chasing us,” he says. “My parents tried to explain it in terms [like] we were like Robin Hood or we were like the Rebel Alliance in Star Wars. So I knew in the way a kid knows that our lives were precarious.” Dohrn describes his mother as a “liberal, progressive, activist” who became radicalized by the assassination of Black civil rights leaders and the escalation of the Vietnam War: “Once …