At 9:30 a.m. on October 20, 1981, Kathy Boudin took her fourteen-month-old son Chesa to his baby-sitter, while her husband, David Gilbert, waited in the car. She planned, like any working mother, to pick up her child around 5 p.m. This was not the most realistic of expectations. Kathy's main task for the day was scheduled for 4 p.m. in Nyack, New York, about forty-five miles away. Even were she to finish her work promptly, it would be impossible to drive back over the Tappan Zee Bridge during rush hour, return the van that she was about to rent, and hop on the subway, all within an hour. At the very best, Chesa would have to be collected in the early evening. 

But Chesa was never picked up by either of his parents that day. After dropping off their child, Kathy and David drove to the Bronx, rented their truck, covered the windows with contact paper, and crossed the river, where they met up with their colleagues.

After picking up a rented U-haul, Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert (Kathy's boyfriend -  later husband and father to child Chesa) drove to Korvettes parking lot off Route 59 in Rockland County, New York. It had been the pre-arranged meeting spot with which to swap vehicles for their get-a-way after their accomplices had robbed the Brink's armored truck at the Nanuet Mall (which was about a half mile away off Route 59). The armored truck's final stop was to be at the mall's Nanuet National Bank, where the Brink's crew (3) was due to pick up almost $1.6 million dollars in cash.

Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert's heavily armed accomplices (armed with an assortment of weapons including shotguns, automatic rifles and 9mm hand guns) had been in another vehicle, a red Chevy van - it's windows covered with plastic (the van was rented by Eve Rosahn at Econo-Car, where Kathy Boudin worked.)

Inside the red van was the leader of a group (who referred to themselves as "The Family") who had ties to (and/or were members of) the Black Panthers and the Black Liberation Army. His name was Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), 31, a black nationalist and a veteran of several armored car and bank robberies committed in New York and New Jersey. Shakur had convinced his underlings that "it was up to them to seize funds from legitimate sources and redistribute the money to various black causes".

Also in the back of the red Chevy van were:

Cecilio Chui Ferguson, 35, 
Samuel Brown AKA Solomon Bouines, 41, 
Samuel Smith AKA Mtayari Sundiata, 37, 
and Donald Weems AKA Kuwasi Balagoon, 35, 
Nathaniel Burns, AKA Sekou Odinga, 35

All the men in back of the van were members of "The Family" (there were others also, but it had never been proven who or how many.) They each had a specific role in the robbery that was about to go down at the mall.

And the Brinks guards had their duties too. Pete Paige, 24, was assigned to watch his partner, Joe Trombino, 48, as he handled the cash (there was also a driver inside the Brinks truck - James Kelly). After Paige and Trombino had entered the mall, the red Chevy van with "The Family" pulled up behind the armored car, and Donald Weems AKA Kuwasi Balagoon, who was sitting "shotgun", got out of the red van and sat on a bench just outside the entrance to the mall. He would act as a back up and provide assistance if needed.

At approximately 3:55 p.m. the Brinks guards, Paige and Trombino, emerged from the mall rolling out the moneybags on a hand truck. They walked over to the Brinks armored truck and began loading the bags into the back.

Almost simultaneously, the red Chevy van pulled up, the rear doors swung open, and the robbers stormed out. 

"They didn't even ask them to hand over the money," declared an incredulous witness. "They just blasted away."

One of the robbers armed with a shotgun, ran to the front of the truck and immediately fired two blasts directly at the Brink's bulletproof windshield. The third guard (James Kelly), who had been there waiting in the Brinks driver's seat, ducked and was unhurt, while another robber, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M -16 automatic rifle, striking Brinks guard Peter Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly. Brinks guard Joe Trombino got off just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder. The bullets almost completely severed his arm off at the shoulder. 

"'I've got no arm!" he screamed. 

(Joe Trombino would survive that day, only to perish 20 years later in another terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001)

The killers grabbed several moneybags from the back of the Brink's truck and threw them into the rear of their red Chevy van. Then, they all jumped into the van and sped away, narrowly missing several moving cars and pedestrians who were running in terror from the shooting. The entire operation, from start to finish, was over in less than two minutes.

Kathy Boudin's 2003 Parole Hearing Version

At 3:45 p.m., the armored car was in a parked position, when both guards exited to make a currency pick-up in the Nanuet mall. The driver remained in the vehicle. Codefendant Donald Weems was waiting at a bus stop approximately 100 feet from the Brinks truck, while a red Chevrolet van pulled up beside it, and three men exited. Codefendant Samuel Brown went into the mall entrance by a bank of telephones, while the other men took positions at the front and rear of the Brinks truck. Brinks guard Peter Paige, with his gun drawn, but pointing toward the ground, took a position by the wall outside the door, while guard Trombino brought the currency sacks out on a hand truck. Brinks driver Kelly pushed the buzzer, which opened the door, and Trombino loaded one currency sack on the truck. As he was loading the second sack, the shooting started. Brinks guard Paige was shot and killed immediately, and Brinks guard Trombino was shot in the arm while trying to secure the rear door of the truck. Brinks driver Kelly suffered minor injuries when the front window of the truck - front window of the truck was blown in by two shotgun blasts.
While one armed perpetrator kept the crowd at bay, the other two loaded six currency sacks, containing $1,598,000 into the red Chevy van. 

The van was joined in the mall parking lot by a tan Honda with two women inside, and both vehicles were driven out of the mall parking lot together.

After fleeing the scene, the killers drove the half-mile from the Nanuet Mall to the Korvettes parking lot where Kathy Boudin had been waiting in the rented U-haul truck, which by that time had then been joined by two more vehicles, a yellow Honda (registered to Eve Rosahn) and a white Buick (owned by Marilyn Buck), also manned by members of "the May 19 Communist Organization". (One car may have been driven by Rosenberg).

The plan was to dump the red Chevy van, put the bags of money into the U-haul truck, and have all the black participants in the robbery hide in the back of the U-Haul as they made their getaway. That had been the plan - they knew that in the confusion following the robbery, the police would be looking for black men in a red van. They would not be too concerned about a U-Haul being driven by a white couple (Kathy Boudin was the passenger in the front seat of the U-haul, David Gilbert was driving.)

While all were in the Korvettes parking lot, the robbers in the red van quickly threw the bags of money into the yellow Honda and U-Haul truck, then they all sped away, leaving the red Chevy van behind.

Yellow Honda registered to Eve Rosahn, but Judith Clark may have been driving.

White Buick owned by Marilyn Buck, but may have been driven by Susan Rosenberg.

U-Haul truck driven by David Gilbert with Kathy Boudin in right passenger side - Susan Rosenberg rented the U-Haul.

Red Chevy van rented by Eve Rosahn (from Kathy Boudin who worked at Econo-Car)

But at a house across the street, a student spotted the robbers as they switched vehicles in the Korvettes parking lot. She just happened to glance out her kitchen window when the red van pulled in. The men, some armed with rifles, jumped out of the van, removed the moneybags and tossed them into the U Haul and the Honda. She then called the police. "It was a little yellow Honda sedan and a U-Haul truck. They went to the right toward the Mobil Car Wash," she told the police dispatcher. Within seconds, the information was over the police airwaves.

Stakeouts were set up on all the escape routes and Police Chief Alan Colsey, 29, heard Sgt. Ed O'Grady report a sighting of a U-Haul truck near the thruway. "U-Haul truck going to enter the thruway here. Do you have any description of the subjects?" the radio asks

"No, at this time all we have is a yellow Honda and a U-Haul trailer or truck. Well get it to you as soon as we have it," the dispatcher reported.

At the intersection of Route 59 and Mountainview Ave., Nyack Police Officers Waverly Brown, Brian Lennon, Sgt. Edward Organdy, and Detective Artie Keenan pulled over a U Haul truck occupied by a white man and a white woman. Lennon had his shotgun pointed directly at the van as it came to a halt a few yards before the thruway on ramp. Sgt O'Grady asked both parties to step outside the van. The man, (who was never positively identified at the time, but later named as David), and Kathy Boudin, exited the front of the U-Haul and stood on the street.

Two Nyack police officers who had stopped the lead vehicle, an orange U-Haul van, were shot dead by figures who leaped from the back of the van. Several of the suspects jumped into a second getaway car, a tan Honda. After it crashed three miles away, four people were arrested at the time and all of the $1.6 million was recovered. A third car, a white Oldsmobile (that was car-jacked), sped away and was later found abandoned. Authorities began searching with bloodhounds and helicopters for an additional four to eight fugitives. (Car-jacked BMW and white Buick got away.)

After Kathy Boudin pleaded with the cops to lower their guns, they relented. "Put the shotgun back", said OGrady, "I don't think its them". Lennon walked back to his police unit but Detective Keenan, apparently not satisfied, tried to open the rear door of the U-Haul. When he tried to pull the door up, it wouldn't move. He though it was being held from the inside because there was a pull up strap on the back side of the door pulled to the inside. Keenan shook the door several times. He called out to O'Grady who was by the front cab, but before he could answer, and without any warning, the rear door to the U-Haul instantly slid up with a loud bang. 

Six men crashed out of the back of the truck, military style, frantically firing automatic weapons at everything that moved. Detective Keenan rolled on the ground behind a pine tree, which probably saved his life, but still managed to return fire. He was shot in his leg and a bullet grazed his side. Officer Brown was shot repeatedly with an M-16 rifle as he fell to the ground, already fatally wounded. While he lay there in the street bleeding to death, one of the men walked up to him and shot him again with a 9mm handgun. The suspects had fired hundreds of rounds in all directions. 

Terrified pedestrians ran for their lives from the furious gunfire. O'Grady managed to shoot one of the suspects as he himself was struck several times by a rain of bullets. The suspect staggered but he did not fall. He was wearing a bulletproof vest. As O'Grady fumbled to reload his .357 magnum revolver next to a police unit, he was shot several times by a man with an M-16 rifle. The bullets shattered his liver, diaphragm and punctured his kidney. He would die ninety minutes later on the operating table at Nyack Hospital. 

Officer Lennon, who was trapped in his car by the heavy gunfire, tried to exit out the front passenger door, but O'Grady's body was wedged up against the door. He watched as the killers jumped back into the U-Haul and sped directly towards him. Lennon fired his shotgun several times at the speeding truck as it collided with his police car. The back window, struck by M-16 gunfire, shattered into a thousand pieces. 

On the thruway overpass just yards away, Donald Weems, still armed with a 9mm handgun, suddenly realized he had nowhere to go. Two women, Norma Hill and her 81-year-old mother, sat in a white BMW, idling on the overpass watching the incredible gunfight. When Weems realized he had no way out, he ran over to the BMW and pulled Norma out of the car. "Get out of the fucking car!" he screamed. As Norma tried to unbuckle her mothers seatbelt, Weems kicked her in the side and sent her tumbling to the pavement. Then he slammed down on the accelerator and drove off the overpass

"I have a report that all of the occupants involved in the shooting jumped into a large white Buick that was heading north on Mountainview Avenue."

Simultaneously, the yellow Honda pulled in front of the U-Haul. Some of the suspects piled into the car and it immediately took off up Mountainview Avenue. Detective Keenan, though wounded himself, crawled over to Chipper Brown. There was no pulse even then, he said recently. The battered truck, pieces of the front fender falling off into the street, its tires and engine smoking and bullet holes in its sides, was abandoned on the ramp. Another passing motorist, Dr. Ronald Dreyer, had his Oldsmobile carjacked at gunpoint by one of the robbers who then raced up the street leaving $759,000 in cash, three shot cops and a river of blood behind.

The yellow Honda tried to move but its wheels were stuck in the ground and the front end was heavily damaged. The female driver, Judith Clark, opened her door and searched for something behind the seat. I found out later that the rear passenger, Samuel Brown, had dropped a .9 mm handgun on the floor and they couldn't reach it,. Brown was still in the back seat, badly injured from the impact.

FREEZE! DON'T MOVE! Colsey screamed at the occupants. The passenger, later identified as David Gilbert, crawled out of the wreck onto the ground and asked for help. He was a white man with a large, bushy head of hair and full beard.

We need help, my friend is hurt! he pleaded. Colsey, however, wasn't persuaded. Gilbert failed to convince the chief to lower his guard as he held the three suspects at gunpoint. Colsey didn't know at the time that Gilbert planned to keep him distracted while Brown retrieved the handgun to kill the chief.

People are hurt here! People are hurt! screamed Gilbert.

DON'T MOVE! GET OUT OF THE CAR WITH YOUR HANDS UP! he shouted at the girl. But Judith Clark continued to search for the missing gun. Colsey held the three suspects at gunpoint for several minutes until help arrived.

Police Officer Michael Seidel and. Detective Jim Stewart pulled up to the scene 

They had to pull Brown out of the back seat through the rear window. He was fighting all the way! the three suspects were soon under control.

Two other suspects, both pulled from the Honda, were also Weather Undergrounders: Judith Clark, 31, and David Gilbert, 37. Clark had served 18 months in jail for the Days of Rage. Living in Manhattan for the past ten years, she has recently been associated with the all-female May 19 Coalition, a group that takes its name from the common birthday of Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh and fancies itself as a support team for clandestine black liberation terrrorist organizations. The fourth suspect, Samuel Brown, 41, who was injured in the crash, is an ex-convict with a 23-year police record.

All three supplied false names when they were later booked at Nyack Police headquarters. Boudin gave her name as Barbara Edson.

When cops searched the Honda, they found a loaded .9mm automatic in the back of the front seat and $800,000 in cash from the Nanuet National Bank in the trunk. But something even more telling was inside their clothes. When police later examined the clothes of Gilbert and Clark, there were dozens of tiny pieces of glass trapped in the folds. Lab technicians compared these fragments to the windshield of P.O. Lennons vehicle. It was a match.

After Kathy's Arrest

Chesa was still at his babysitter's apartment; his planned pick-up time was almost precisely the moment when his parents were apprehended. Nine hours later, at around 2 a.m., Kathy was allowed to make a phone call from jail. She rang the home of William Kunstler, the radical lawyer, not the home of Ana Vasquez, the babysitter. Kathy had not forgotten about her son; the next day she finally reached Kunstler, who then called Kathy's father, and, together with their wives, they immediately drove to Nyack. Meeting them in her cell, Kathy asked them to pick up Chesa. It was now almost two full days after the bloody events. We do not know from Susan Braudy's terse, tough-minded, honest, and thoroughly absorbing book when and how Ana Vasquez was relieved of her charge. But we do know that Kathy's parents, understanding that their daughter was likely to be behind bars for some time, considered themselves too old to adopt her child. "We'd never heard of Pampers," Kathy's mother said. "We didn't know how to undo the stickum. The baby was crying." Kathy's fellow revolutionaries Bernardine Dohrn and Bill Ayers decided to adopt Chesa on the spot. Kathy, to her dismay, learned that as a prisoner she had no right to see Chesa, and it was not until January 1983, when he would have been twenty-nine months old, that Kathy, recently transferred to a new prison, was finally allowed to touch her baby. 

Kathy Boudin's 2003 Parole Hearing Version

The Clarkstown Police Department was notified of the robbery. It was subsequently reported that the red Chevrolet van had been abandoned in Nanuet, and that the perpetrators switched to a U-Haul truck, which was accompanied by the tan Honda.

Three police cars from the Clarkstown Police Department were in pursuit of both vehicles. Car number 382 pulled behind the U-haul. Car 384 was approximately 40 feet from the U-Haul, and car 383 was in an Exxon gas station across the road.

Police officer Brian Lennon blocked the entrance to the New York State Thruway with his police vehicle, and pointed a shotgun at the front of the U-Haul, at which point the U-Haul stopped.

Clarkstown Police Sergeant Edward O'Grady, and detective Arthur Keenan, approached the U-Haul, as Kathy Boudin exited the passenger side door of the cab of the truck and walked slowly away with her hands up, looking scared. An olive complexioned male also exited the cab of the truck, from the driver's side door. Detective Keenan checked the cab of the truck from both the driver side door and passenger side door. Detective Keenan found nothing in the cab, and then tried to check the rear of the truck, but was unable to open the rear overhead door. At this point Sergeant O'Grady exclaimed, "I don't think it's them," and ordered Officer Lennon to put his shotgun back in the car. Now, just a question, what happened right then, he said, "I don't think it's them," did anything else happen at that point where you 

A I was ~
Q You had your hands up in the air.
A I had my hands up. Really, and the next thing I knew is they were shooting.
Q Okay. I'll go on then.
A All right.
Q "Detective Keenan attempted to open the rear door of the truck by pulling on the outside cable, and then walked toward Sergeant O'Grady and Officer Brown, while stating to the driver, "I want that back door open." 

Detective Keenan then heard a noise, turned around, saw a black male wearing a ski mask, standing at the passenger side rear of the U-Haul truck, spraying bullets at him from a short barreled rifle. Detective Keenan pulled his revolver and dove to the ground, seeking cover. He felt a bullet pass between his legs, and fired six rounds at the black male. Detective Keenan observed another black male run toward police car number 384. At that point, Police Officer Brown was lying on the ground, having already been shot. Sergeant O'Grady was taking cover behind the passenger side door of car 384. He had fired all six rounds from his revolver and was crouching and reloading. The black male that had been firing at Detective Keenan ran behind the passenger side of car 384 and sprayed Sergeant O'Grady with automatic rifle fire.

Officer Lennon then fired two shotgun shots at the person by the U-Haul truck. Someone then jumped into the cab of the U- Haul, which was idling, and rammed the police car. Officer Lennon saw a black male driving and fired two shots into the cab of the U-Haul, then drew his revolver and fired two additional shots into the cab. The shooting stopped, and officers at the scene gave first aide to Sergeant O'Grady and Officer Brown. An off-duty correction officer had taken Ms. Boudin into custody nearby on an overhead bridge on the New York State Thruway. Detective Keenan checked the cab of the U-Haul and saw what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun on the front seat. Ski goggles, a banana ammunition clip, and $798,000 were found in the back of the U-Haul." Did you have a sawed off shotgun on the front seat?
A No.
Q You're saying that wasn't there?
A It wasn't there when I was there.
Q When you were there. Okay. "Codefendant Judith Clark was driving the tan Honda. Two other perpetrators commandeered two other vehicles, which were used to flee the scene of the shootout. One vehicle was abandoned, and the suspects fled the area in the tan Honda and a white Oldsmobile. The tan Honda subsequently crashed into a wall and the occupants, Miss Clark and David Gilbert, were placed under arrest. Codefendant Samuel Brown was taken into custody to Nyack Hospital. A firearm was found in the Honda and $800,000 was recovered from the trunk. Miss Clark had a clip of ammunition for the firearm.

Codefendant Donald Weems was arrested on January 20, 1982, in an apartment in the Bronx, New York, by agents of the FBI and detectives from New York City Police Department. Upon his arrest, several weapons were found at the location, including a 9 millimeter handgun and a shotgun. Mr. Weems' palm print was found on the tag of one of the currency sacks.

Brinks guard Peter Paige, police officer Waverly Brown, and Sergeant Edward O'Grady died as a result of their wounds. Detective Keenan was superficially wounded, and Brinks guard Joseph Trombino was wounded in his arm. Okay. That's what the record states. Is there anything else, anything that you would like to change or you would say is different from what happened there?
A No.

Boudin, Gilbert and Clark had previous connections with the Weathermen organization. Boudin, of course, had been on the run since 1970 from the Manhattan townhouse explosion and Gilbert was being sought for assault and possession of explosives in Colorado. Clark had served a prison sentence for her role in the Days of Rage demonstration. 

Police first realized that over the previous ten years, the Black Liberation Army and the Weather Underground, a militant faction of the Students for a Democratic Society, had teamed forces. 

In Rockland County, one of the lead investigators on the case was Detective Jim Stewart, who had helped capture the three suspects at the Honda crash. The case was massive, just massive. To give you an idea, we logged in over 10,000 pieces of evidence those first few days. The crime scenes included the Nanuet Mall, the rear of the Korvettes, the Mountainview shootout scene, which in itself was huge, the Honda crash site and various safe houses, he said recently. 

Police quickly traced the license plate on the white Buick to an apartment in East Orange, New Jersey that was rented by a Carol Durant. A Joint Terrorist Task Force entered the apartment on the afternoon of October 21. They found a supply of automatic weapons, shotguns, ammunition, bomb-making material and something else that made their blood run cold: detailed blueprints of six Manhattan police precincts. Investigators also were able to identify the Carol Durant as an alias used by a girl named Marilyn Jean Buck.

Buck became interested in the S.D.S. and was soon working for the organization. She then gravitated toward California where she was arrested in 1973 for buying a large quantity of ammunition and two guns for B.L.A. members. Buck was convicted and sentenced to 10 years in federal prison. When she was granted a furlough in 1977, she never returned and her long run from the police began. It was Marilyn Buck who rented the apartment in East Orange and she was also the owner of the white Buick used in the Brinks robbery

While at the apartment, cops also found papers that listed an address on E. Third Street in Mt. Vernon, N.Y., a small city in Westchester County about 20 miles from Nanuet. When cops raided that apartment on Third Street, they found bloody clothing, ammunition, more guns and ski masks. Investigation later revealed that the bloody clothing belonged to Marilyn Buck who had accidentally shot herself in the leg when she tried to draw her weapon during the shootout at Mountainview.

The next day, late in the afternoon, police located the Buick that was seen fleeing with the yellow Honda after the Brinks robbery. It was parked on a lonely side street in Pelham, N.Y., a small village about 20 miles from Nanuet. There were parking tickets on the windshield and the doors were unlocked. It was found less than a half-mile from the Mt. Vernon address. All the plates on the vehicles seen near the Mt. Vernon address were entered into the nationwide N.C.I.C. system. Cops didn't have to wait long for a hit.

On October 23, just two days after the killings in Nanuet, plainclothes N.Y.P.D. detectives in Queens were cruising the area of South Ozone Park. Detective Lt. Dan Kelly, 53, spotted a license plate last seen outside the Mt. Vernon address on a red Ford. It was now on a 1978 Chrysler containing two occupants heading towards the Van Wyck Expressway. When cops tried to pull it over, the car took off at high speed. Within minutes, dozens of N.Y.C.P.D. police units joined the frantic chase through the crowded streets of Queens. The car raced down Northern Boulevard where hundreds of frightened pedestrians jumped out of the way. As cops tried to block the streets by pulling police trucks in its path, the Chrysler jumped a concrete barrier and became air borne, crashing back into the street and making a furious, smoking U turn. Minutes later, the fugitives lost control of the car and it spun out of control, smashing front first into a building at 127th and Northern Blvd.

The two suspects jumped from the car and immediately began firing their automatic handguns at the police, who dove for cover. The desperate men ran through residential back yards where terrified homeowners screamed in horror as the gunfight continued. Bullets pierced living room walls and smashed through passing cars. When one of the suspects climbed over a fence and found himself trapped inside a construction yard, he turned and fired on police who were in hot pursuit. They promptly returned fire, striking the shooter in the neck and face. He was killed instantly. Simultaneously, the other suspect, later identified as Nathaniel Burns, 35, AKA Sekou Odinga, hid under the wheel well of a parked truck. When he tried to fire his 9 mm handgun at the approaching police, the mechanism jammed. He was captured after a violent struggle. Cops found another fully loaded 9 mm in his waistband.

The dead man was identified as Samuel Smith, 37, but to his friends he was better known as Sundiata. At the time of his death, Smith was wearing a protective vest. Cops later discovered that his chest showed signs of blunt trauma, the kind of injury associated with a bullet impact on a vest. Inside his shirt pocket, police also found a flattened .38 caliber slug. Rockland District Attorney Kenneth Gribetz called a press conference to announce what many cops already suspected.

The bullet found in his pocket, a flattened .38 caliber, was shot from Sgt. O'Grady's gun! he told reporters.

A later investigation indicated that an escaped radical, Joannne Chesimard, one of the most sought after individuals in America, may have been in that van. She was serving a life sentence for her role in the murder of a New Jersey State trooper in 1973 when she escaped from custody in 1979. This theory was never proven, but to this day, many of the investigators who worked on that case believed it to be true.

All the safe houses, which the Brinks suspects visited after the robbery, were carefully analyzed and processed by crime scene technicians. Many fingerprints were lifted and identified, which gave cops additional leads. Several other members of the Weather Underground and the B.L.A. were soon arrested in coordinated raids with local law enforcement. One Cynthia Boston was located and arrested in a ranch house in Gallman, Mississippi in late October. The ranch was owned by another radical organization called the Republic of New Africa. Although she did not actively participate in the crime, Boston was charged with conspiracy in the Brinks robbery and held on $500,000 bail. Two other suspects, Jeffrey Jones and Eleanor Raskin, were arrested in the Bronx when cops went to an apartment to execute a search warrant. Jones and Raskin, former members of the Weather Underground, were charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution after cops found bomb-making material in a Hoboken apartment in 1979.

Over the next few months, the F.B.I. continued its relentless search. On January 20, 1982, the F.B.I. located and arrested Donald Weems, AKA Kuwasi Balagoon in the Bronx. Two months later, on March 26, 1982, the Joint Terrorist Task Force arrested Chui Ferguson and Edward Joseph, AKA Jamal Baltimore, in a raid on a Bronx apartment. But the main target, the man that planned and carried out the murderous carnage in Nyack, Jeral Williams, AKA Mutulu Shakur, escaped and later fled the New York area.

The first state trial took place in Goshen, New York, Judge David S. Ritter sat on the bench Judith Clark, David J. Gilbert and Donald Weems were the first of the Brinks robbers to go on trial. Death to U.S. imperialism! screamed Judith Clark All the oppressors will fail! said Gilbert We will continue to maintain our position as freedom fighters! They called the robbery an expropriation of funds that were needed to form a new country in a few select southern states that ideally would be populated only by blacks. On September 14, 1983, the jury, after deliberating four hours, found the defendants guilty of all charges On October 6, 1983, he sentenced each defendant to three consecutive 25-years-to-life prison terms.

On the very day that David Gilbert was convicted, he and Kathy Boudin were married at the Orange County Jail.

In April 1984, Weinglass told D.A. Gribetz that Boudin would be willing to deal. A guilty plea would benefit both sides and also bring this part of the case to a conclusion. The District Attorneys Office had already spent millions of dollars of taxpayers money to prosecute the case and there was no end in sight. Boudins family had also spent a great deal of money and was emotionally exhausted. Kathy had already spent nearly three years in jail and had yet to go to trial.

On April 26, 1984, Kathy Boudin pled guilty to murder and robbery charges in the Brinks holdup. I feel terrible about the lives that were lost. Boudin received a 20-years-to-life sentence. - but at her sentencing, she sounded less remorseful. I was there out of my commitment to the black liberation struggle... I am a white woman who does not want the crimes committed against black people carried out in my name,

That left Samuel Brown to face prosecution alone. Witnesses had placed Samuel  Brown at both the Brinks robbery scene and the Mountainview shootout where Sgt. OGrady and Officer Brown were killed. Other witnesses identified him as one of the men firing at the cops. And, of course, he was arrested along with Gilbert and Clark at the Honda crash scene.

After six hours of debating the issue, the jury returned with a guilty verdict on all charges. He was later sentenced to 75 years to life.

In November 1984, Susan Rosenberg may have been driving one of the escape vehicles, was arrested in Cherry Hill, New Jersey. 

When F.B.I. agents looked into the recent activities of Susan Rosenberg, they were led to the city of New Haven, CT, where residents identified photographs of Marilyn Jean Buck as one of the people who visited Rosenberg's apartment. She was also the person who rented the U Haul trailer for Rosenberg under a fictitious name. From Connecticut, agents followed the trail to Baltimore, MD, where they missed Buck once again. Inside her apartment though, the F.B.I. found detailed plans to bomb numerous federal office buildings and other institutions in Washington, D.C.

In May 1985, agents located Marilyn Buck and followed her to a diner in Dobbs Ferry, New York, a small village on the banks of the Hudson River. She was taken into custody without incident along with a friend, Linda Sue Evans. At the time of their arrest, Buck was armed with a .38 caliber revolver and Evans had a 9mm automatic handgun. Buck was later convicted of a multitude of charges relating to the Brinks murders and other armored car robberies. Buck is serving a 50-year sentence in a federal prison in Florida.

The mastermind of the Brinks robbery was finally located in Los Angeles in 1986 by two New York City detectives. Jeral Wayne Williams, AKA Shakur, listed on the F.B.I. Ten Most Wanted list, had outstanding federal warrants for his arrest for bank robbery and racketeering. Detectives were hot on his trail and pursued uncountable leads as to his whereabouts. On February 13, 1986 police spotted Williams walking down Packard Street in East L.A. When they tried to grab him, Williams ran. But pursuing cops used a flying tackle to bring their man down. 

Although Susan Rosenberg was never convicted of any Brinks-related charges, court testimony indicated she was a member of The Family and may have driven one of the escape vehicles. She was later convicted of charges relating to possession of explosives and received a sentence of 58 years to life. 

But in December 2000, President Clinton decided she had served enough time in jail. Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans were among the long list of questionable pardons and commuted sentences, which Clinton granted in his final days in office. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White, in the Southern District of N.Y., initiated a criminal investigation of those pardons, which continues as of this writing.

Donald Weems, AKA Kuwasi Balagoon, the man who carjacked the BMW and may have been the one who actually killed Chipper Brown, died of AIDS in prison in 1986. And Jeral Wayne Williams, the alleged planner of the Brinks robbery and leader of the strange criminal alliance between the B.L.A. and the Weather Underground, was convicted in 1988 and sentenced to sixty years. He is currently in a federal pen in California.

MY NOTES (A work in progress)

1 - Kathy Boudin passenger U-Haul truck $ Marilyn Jean Buck rented the U Haul trailer for Rosenberg.

2 - David Gilbert driver U-Haul truck $

3 - Eve Rosahn - yellow Honda registered to Eve Rosahn (Judith Clark was driving) rear passenger Samuel Brown, and David Gilbert.

4 - Marilyn Buck - a white Buick owned by Marilyn Buck (may have been driven by Susan Rosenberg) - occupants involved in the shooting jumped into a large white Buick that was heading north on Mountainview Avenue. Accidentally shot herself in 2nd shoot out. (Buick abandoned Pelham, N.Y) - Marilyn Jean Buck rented the U Haul trailer for Rosenberg.

5 - Joannne Chesimard - may have been in van.

*Cynthia Boston - conspiricy

*Jeffrey Jones arrested with Eve Rosahn (may not have participated in Brinks)

Six men crashed out of the back of the truck

1 - Jeral Wayne Williams - caught 1986 Packard Street in East L.A.

2 - Cecilio Chui Ferguson aka Mutulu Shakur - arrested March 26

3 - Samuel Brown AKA Solomon Bouines - Samuel Brown went into the mall entrance by a bank of telephones - both shootouts.

4 - Samuel Smith AKA Mtayari Sundiata - dead from 1978 Chrysler (9mm) One suspect staggered but he did not fall. He was wearing a bulletproof vest - he was wearing a protective vest.

5 - Donald Weems AKA Kuwasi Balagoon - sitting "shotgun", got out of the red van and sat on a bench just outside the entrance to the mall. He would act as a back up and provide assistance if needed. - - - carjacked white BMW - - - arrested found 9 millimeter handgun and a shotgun - - -died of AIDS in prison in 1986.

6 - Nathaniel Burns, 35, AKA Sekou Odinga (9mm) caught from 1978 Chrysler 

* Edward Joseph AKA Jamal Baltimore arrested March 26 with Ferguson (may not have participated in Brinks)

A white Oldsmobile (that was car-jacked), sped away and was later found abandoned. Two other perpetrators commandeered two other vehicles, which were used to flee the scene of the shootout. One vehicle later was abandoned (a white Oldsmobile) (and white BMW - both carjacked)

Armed with a shotgun, ran to the front of the truck and immediately fired two blasts directly at the Brink's bulletproof windshield. (2nd shoot out - black male wearing a ski mask, standing at the passenger side rear of the U-Haul truck, spraying bullets at him from a short barreled rifle) - Someone then jumped into the cab of the U- Haul, which was idling, and rammed the police car. Officer Lennon saw a black male driving and fired two shots into the cab of the U-Haul, then drew his revolver and fired two additional shots into the cab. Detective Keenan checked the cab of the U-Haul and saw what appeared to be a sawed off shotgun on the front seat. Ski goggles, a banana ammunition clip, and $798,000 were found in the back of the U-Haul.

while another robber, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M -16 automatic rifle, striking Brinks guard Peter Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly. Brinks guard Joe Trombino got off just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder. 

Officer Brown (and O'Grady) was shot repeatedly with an M-16 rifle - one of the men walked up to him and shot him again with a 9mm handgun. 

Just what had Kathy Boudin been doing for the past ten years? Rita Jensen, 38, a reporter for the Stamford (Conn.) Advocate, told her paper that for the past 20 months she had shared a Manhattan apartment with Boudin and the fugitive's one-year-old son Chesa. Jensen says that she did not know the history of the woman she knew as Lynn Adams, and that she believed her roommate was supporting herself as a waitress. City officials said that Boudin, using the name Adams, had been collecting $355 a month in welfare benefits

Obama had a list of addresses listed - safe houses?

Barry Soetoro (AYERS = aliases) got away?

Chris Dobbs ?...and an unknown number of accomplices.

According to John Castellucci's "The Big Dance," an account of the Brinks robbery, Ms. Rosenberg's role in the Brinks job was performing surveillance, driving a getaway car and transmitting orders. "Any white who had taken part in the robbery," Mr. Castellucci writes, "would have received orders from her." 

Mr. Castellucci reports that the Brinks robbery was only one of several violent episodes that Ms. Rosenberg was involved with in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was finally apprehended in November 1984 while unloading a cache of weapons--including 740 pounds of explosives--at a storage facility in Cherry Hill, N.J. ..."

1990 (December 6) - Sentencing date of Weathermen Susan Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans:

1999 (On August 11) President Bill Clinton offered clemency - Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder was credited with an "unconscionable" effort to circumvent the standard pardon process, not consulting with the Department of Justice's pardon attorney and keeping deliberations hidden from the district U.S. attorney and investigative agencies. Weather Underground terrorists Linda Evans and Susan Rosenberg were also pardoned

Black Liberation Army members; including Jeral Wayne Williams (aka Mutulu Shakur), Donald Weems (aka Kuwasi Balagoon), Samuel Smith, Nathaniel Burns (aka Sekou Odinga), Cecilio "Chui" Ferguson, Samuel Brown (aka Solomon Bouines)

Former members of the Weather Underground, now belonging to the May 19th Communist Organization, including David Gilbert, Judith Alice Clark, Kathy Boudin, and Marilyn Buck; and an unknown number of accomplices.

They stole $1.6 million from a Brinks armored car at the Nanuet Mall, in Nanuet, New York, killing two police officers, Edward O'Grady and Waverly Brown, and a Brinks guard, Peter Paige.

The robbers included senior BLA members Willams (Shakur) and Weems (Balagoon),

May 19 Communists David Gilbert, Samuel Brown, Judith Alice Clark, and Kathy Boudin

"New Zeal reported last month that Van Jones helped found Apollo and served on its board until recently-alongside Gerry Hudson of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), former Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) supporter Carl Pope and Joel Rogers-founder of the radical New Party-which Barack Obama joined in Chicago in 1995.

The New York state Apollo Alliance Director is Jeff Jones. Jones co-founded the Weatherman terrorist organization with Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn.

Source: http://exposingliberallies.blogspot.com/2009/09/bill-ayers-associate-involved-in.html  

SDS / Tom Hayden / “Odinga” / Percy Sutton: A Tuskegee Mustang pilot in World War II

 SOURCE

http://www.powells.com/review/2003_10_30.html