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[[Image:3308630148 d44e7e71a0.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Dohrn was an admirer of Charles Manson and the Manson group's methods.  Manson sought to ignite an all-out race war in the United States. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3259228742503720963]]]

[[Image:3308630148 d44e7e71a0.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Dohrn was an admirer of Charles Manson and the Manson group's methods.  Manson sought to ignite an all-out race war in the United States. [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3259228742503720963]]]

At a 1969 "War Council" in [[Flint]], [[Michigan]], Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she spoke of the bloody murders recently committed by the [[Charles Manson|Manson Family]] in which the actress Sharon Tate, at the time nine months pregnant, was murdered and her unborn child cut out of her abdomen.  Abigail Folger, heiress of Folgers Coffee heiress and several other victims at two crime scenes were all brutally stabbed to death.<ref>[http://www.crimeshots.com/Carnage69.html Manson Family Carnage]</ref>  The words "Death to Pigs" were written on a wall in the victims blood.

At a 1969 "War Council" in [[Flint]], [[Michigan]], Dohrn gave her most memorable and notorious speech to her followers. Holding her fingers in what became the Weatherman "fork salute," she spoke of the bloody murders recently committed by the [[Charles Manson|Manson Family]] in which the actress Sharon Tate, at the time nine months pregnant, was murdered and her unborn child died.  Abigail Folger, heiress of Folgers Coffee heiress and several other victims at two crime scenes were all brutally stabbed to death.<ref>[http://www.crimeshots.com/Carnage69.html Manson Family Carnage]</ref>  The words "Death to Pigs" were written on a wall in the victims blood.

{{cquote|'''Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"'''}}   

{{cquote|'''Dig it! First they killed those pigs, then they ate dinner in the same room with them. They even shoved a fork into the victim's stomach! Wild!"'''}}   

This was a references to Leno LaBianca, found with 12 knife wounds and 14 additional wounds caused by a large fork.  The word "war" was then carved into his flesh with a knife. When police arrived, the fork was still protruding from his body.<ref> http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/sharontate.htm</ref>

This was a references to Leno LaBianca, found with 12 knife wounds and 14 additional wounds caused by a large fork.  The word "war" was then carved into his flesh with a knife. When police arrived, the fork was still protruding from his body.<ref> http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/sharontate.htm</ref>Dohrn continued: "Offing those rich pigs with their own forks and knives, and then eating a meal in the same room, far out! The Weathermen dig Charles Manson!" <ref>Bugliosi, Vincent, Helter Skelter, 1994 page 296</ref>I

The "War Council" concluded with a communique condemning "AmeriKKKa," always spelled with three K's to signify the United States' allegedly ineradicable white racism.  Dohrn was responsible for issuing communiqués to the public.  On May 20 1970 the Weather Underground's formal Declaration of War against the United States<ref>FBI file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_Declaration_of_a_State_of_War Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War]</ref> was broadcast on radio, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpTvkpZluk] authored and read by Dohrn.  The text reads in part,

The "War Council" concluded with a communique condemning "AmeriKKKa," always spelled with three K's to signify the United States' allegedly ineradicable white racism.  Dohrn was responsible for issuing communiqués to the public.  On May 20 1970 the Weather Underground's formal Declaration of War against the United States<ref>FBI file, [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Weather_Underground_Declaration_of_a_State_of_War Weather Underground Declaration of a State of War]</ref> was broadcast on radio, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jbpTvkpZluk] authored and read by Dohrn.  The text reads in part,