Weather Underground member and ‘81 heist participant Kathy Boudin dead at 78
Kathy Boudin, who spent decades in prison for her part in the deadly 1981 Brink’s armored truck heist as a member of the radical militant group Weather Underground, died of cancer at the age of 78 in New York on Sunday.
In October 1981, Boudin and members of the group teamed up with the Black Liberation Army for the robbery to help fund their anti-government campaigns. They targeted a Brink’s armored truck, which they held up in Rockland County, making off with $1.6 million.
During the robbery, gunmen killed Brink’s security guard Peter Paige before transferring the money to a U-Haul truck a mile away, where a 38-year-old Boudin sat in the cabin.
The truck was stopped by police at a roadblock, where Boudin — unarmed — immediately surrendered. Gunmen in the back of the truck popped outside and began firing on the officers, killing two policemen — Sgt. Edward O’Grady and Officer Waverly Brown.
Katherine Boudin pictured being
led from a Rockland County courthouse in New City, New York, by sheriffs
in November 1981, after the October robbery, which left three dead
She pleaded guilty to first-degree robbery and second-degree murder in the death of Paige in 1984.
She spent 22 years in prison before she was paroled for good behavior in 2003.
Boudin spent 22 years in prison for her involvement in the deadly heist by the radical militant group Weather Underground
After jail, she was hired by Columbia School of Social Work as an adjunct professor in 2008. She was hired as a full-time professor in 2013, lecturing about issues facing convicts and their families when a person is released from prison.
San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin. When Boudin he was just one year old in 1981, his parents dropped the future politician off with a babysitter and took part in an armored car robbery
Little Chesa Boudin goes hiking with his dad, David Gilbert, shortly before David was arrested 38 years ago
Boudin was the mother of San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, who last year successfully lobbied former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo to commute the sentence of his father, David Gilbert — who was also a member of the Weather Underground who was imprisoned for his role in the stickup.
Officers escort a handcuffed David Gilbert from Rockland County Court in New City, N.Y in November 1981. Gilbert was paoled in November 2021
Gilbert, who served as a getaway driver, was serving a sentence of 75 years to life in prison with no possibility of parole until 2056. Gilbert is among the last surviving people involved in the robbery.
Judith Clark, another former Weather Underground member, served 35 years of a 75-years-to-life sentence for her role in the robbery at a mall in suburban Rockland County before her sentence was commuted by Cuomo in 2016. She was paroled in 2019.
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