Kathy Boudin was an American radical leftist who served 23 years in prison for felony murder based on her role in the 1981 Brink's robbery.
25 Facts About Kathy Boudin
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Kathy Boudin was released on parole in 2003 and after earning a doctorate became an adjunct professor at Columbia University.
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Kathy Boudin was born in Manhattan on May 19,1943, into a Jewish family with a storied left-wing history.
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Kathy Boudin was raised in Greenwich Village, New York City.
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Kathy Boudin's great-uncle was Marxist theorist Louis B Boudin, while her brother is conservative US Judge Michael Boudin.
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Kathy Boudin graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 1965 as class valedictorian.
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Kathy Boudin met her romantic partner, David Gilbert, in the 1970s and gave birth to their son Chesa Kathy Boudin in 1980.
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Kathy Boudin's son was raised by former Weatherman leaders Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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In 1969, Kathy Boudin was a founding member of the Weatherman faction of Students for a Democratic Society, which in 1970 became the Weather Underground Organization.
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Kathy Boudin remained a fugitive for more than a decade, engaging in multiple additional bombings and other actions.
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Kathy Boudin was in the front seat of a U-Haul truck used as a switchcar getaway vehicle and acted as a decoy.
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Kathy Boudin's accomplices leaped from the back of the truck and shot officers Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown, killing them.
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Kathy Boudin was arrested while attempting to flee the scene on foot.
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Kathy Boudin eventually pleaded guilty to felony murder and robbery for an agreed sentence of 20 years to life in prison.
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Kathy Boudin co-authored The Foster Care Handbook for Incarcerated Parents published by Bedford Hills in 1993.
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Kathy Boudin co-founded AIDS Committee for Education inside the prison in 1988 with other incarcerated women including Katrina Haslip and Judith Alice Clark to provide accurate education on living with HIV.
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Kathy Boudin wrote and published poetry while incarcerated, publishing in books and journals including the PEN Center Prize Anthology Doing Time, Concrete Garden, and Aliens at the Border.
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Kathy Boudin won an International PEN prize for her poetry in 1999.
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Kathy Boudin was released from the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility on September 18,2003.
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Kathy Boudin consulted for Vermont Corrections and the Women's Prison Association and supervised social workers.
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Kathy Boudin was named an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of Social Work, where she was the co-director and co-founder of the Center for Justice at Columbia University.
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Kathy Boudin was a model for the title role in David Mamet's play The Anarchist.
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Kathy Boudin was a model for Willy Holtzman's Off-Broadway play Something You Did.
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Kathy Boudin was an inspiration for the character Merry in Philip Roth's American Pastoral.
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On May 1,2022, Kathy Boudin died in New York City at the age of 78, a day after returning from a visit to San Francisco.