Former Weather Underground radical Kathy Boudin escaped the 1970 Greenwich Village townhouse explosion, spent a decade on the run, served 22 years in prison for her role in a deadly heist, and then became a prominent advocate for criminal justice reform
Kathy Boudin in 2019. Photo: Paul Marotta/Getty Images Kathy Boudin — the 1960s radical and member of the leftist militant group Weather Underground who spent more than two decades in prison for the role she played in a deadly robbery, then went on to become a prominent advocate for criminal-justice reform — has died at the age of 78. Her death was confirmed Sunday by her son, San Francisco district attorney Chesa Boudin.
In 1981, she helped carry out an armored-car robbery in Nanuet, New York, along with her partner, fellow Weather Underground member David Gilbert. Amid the heist, their accomplices, who included other former Weathermen and members of the Black Liberation Army, shot and killed a guard and two police officers. Boudin and Gilbert, who had left their infant son, Chesa, with a babysitter before the robbery, were both arrested the same day.