Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who was imprisoned for a fatal heist, died of cancer on May 1 surrounded by family. She was 78
Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armoured truck robbery and spent the latter part of her life helping people who had been imprisoned, has died at age 78, according to her family.
Her son with Gilbert, Chesa Boudin, said his mother devoted herself to others well after her cancer diagnosis in 2015. She and Gilbert joined members of the Black Liberation Army in the Oct. 20, 1981, robbery, stealing $1.6 million in cash from an armoured car outside the Nanuet Mall near the Hudson River community of Nyack.
“I feel terrible about the lives that were lost as a result of this incident,” Boudin said in court, standing next to her father. “I have led a life committed to political principles. I believe I can be true to these principles in various ways without engaging in violent acts.” Gilbert, who did not plead guilty, was sentenced to 75 years to life. Former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo granted clemency to Gilbert just before the Democrat resigned last summer.
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