Ms. Kathy Boudin This is Me

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1. 1. politwix.com

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   Published on: 4/19/2008   Last Visited: 5/15/2008

   Weather Underground members Kathy Boudin and Cathlyn Wilkerson, upstairs at the time of the blast, were helped by rescue workers and then disappeared before they could be questioned.

2. 2. www.theodoresworld.net

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   Published on: 11/17/2007   Last Visited: 5/24/2008

   A close friend of Catherine's, a girl named Kathy Boudin, was staying with her at the time of the blast.
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   Boudin, too, was out on $20,000 bail on similar charges in Chicago.Neither of the girls could be located.
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   Boudin, a former Weather Underground member, has been in prison for the past 22 years for her role in the notorious Brinks armored car robbery in Nyack in 1981, during which two police officers and a security guard were murdered.On August 20, 2003, the two-member parole board voted to release the 1960s radical as early as it may be feasible.
   
   Boudin said of her early years, "I had an ideology ... that said essentially, white people, beause of having privilege, are essentially bad."But the parole commissioners took notice of the good work performed by Boudin during her incarceration, including her assistance to inmates who have AIDS.
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   Gilbert has never cooperated with authorities in the investigation of the crime, which netted Boudin and friends $1.6 million in cash.
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   The decision to parole Boudin enraged the law enforcement community in New York, especially in Rockland County where the robbery took place.Local groups have consistently opposed the release of Boudin and have worked tirelessly to make their feelings known to the parole board and the governor's office.
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   Kathy Boudin, a passenger in the front seat of the truck, was apprehended as she ran from the scene of the carnage.She was already on the lam for over ten years as a result of an explosion in a Greenwich village townhouse-bomb factory that unintentionally killed three fellow terrorists.
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   Ed O'Grady and mother to their three children raised without a father, addressed the parole of Boudin.
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   "I do not believe that there is a shred of guilt, shame or remorse felt by inmate Boudin," she wrote."To see and hear of the celebrating by Boudin and her supporters was hurtful and indecent."
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   Nor do I have any desire to help Boudin ease her conscience or to give her a better public image for her next book."
   
   But one thing is sure: Kathy Boudin, now 60 years old, will walk out of Bedford Prison a free woman.Her debt to society for her actions on August 20, 1981 will have been paid.She will start a new life, much to the dismay of some people.There have been published reports that Manhattan's St. Luke's Hospital has already offered her a job to work with AIDS patients.Undoubtedly, her image will appear on television talk shows, media events and the inevitable book deal may soon follow.New York's "Son of Sam" law, which prevents those convicted of crimes to profit from them in movie or book contracts will apply to Kathy Boudin, but other criminals have gotten around the law.It remains to be seen if Boudin has such ambitions.
   
   In the meantime, her family and supporters are ecstatic.

3. 3. www.phillyimc.org

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   Published on: 1/17/2008   Last Visited: 6/13/2008

   One of his accomplices in the holdup was Kathy Boudin, a member of the Weather Underground and a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List for 11 years.Boudin was arrested at the scene of the crime, but Shakur escaped.
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   They drove to another location where they transferred the money to a U-Haul truck driven by Boudin and her husband David Gilbert.
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   A shootout occurred in which two Nyack policemen were killed and Boudin captured.In the 1980s, he was arrested on RICO charges of bank robbery and aiding his sister, Assata Shakur, in her escape from prison.While at large, on July 23, 1982 he became the 380th person added by the FBI to the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.He was arrested February 11, 1986 in California and was found guilty.His case is currently on appeal.He served several years at the infamous ADX Florence, but later transferred to Coleman II USP.