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Kathy Boudin (May 19, 1943 – May 1, 2022) [1] was an American radical leftist who served 23 years in prison for felony murder based on her role in the 1981 Brink's robbery. Boudin was a founding member of the militant Weather Underground organization, which engaged in bombings of government buildings to express opposition to U.S. foreign ...
Boudin went to her nearby family home, where her mother found her when she returned that evening. Jean Boudin talked about the fire and how it made her angry that the fire department had devoted so much of its resources to saving a wealthy person's home compared to what they sent to burning tenement houses in poor minority neighborhoods. Kathy ...
Jane Alpert; Karen Ashley; Bill Ayers; Rick Ayers; Kit Bakke; Silas Bissell †; Kathy Boudin †; Scott Braley; Judith Clark; Bernardine Dohrn; Jennifer Dohrn, sister of Bernardine and supporter
The U.S. government states that years after the dissolution of the Weather Underground, three former members, Kathy Boudin, Judith Alice Clark, and David Gilbert, joined the May 19 Communist Organization, and on October 20, 1981, in Nanuet, New York, the group helped the Black Liberation Army rob a Brink's armored truck containing $1.6 million.
Kathy Boudin, a former member of the radical Weather Underground who spent years behind bars after taking part in a deadly 1981 holdup of a Brink’s armored truck, has died at age 78.
Kathy Boudin, former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in the fatal 1981 Brinks robbery, has died. Kathy Boudin, former Weather Underground ...
October 20 - Brinks robbery in which WUO members Kathy Boudin, Sam Brown, Judy Clark and David Gilbert and the Black Liberation Army stole over $1.6 million from a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, near Nyack, New York on October 20, 1981.
The idea of bombing a public building originated from reading Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead, considering bombing as "a morally legitimate form of protest" [1] For four years underground, Alpert worked closely with Weatherwomen, such as Bernardine Dohrn and Kathy Boudin, and helped conspire to overthrow the U.S. government. Along with the bombings ...