1981 Brinks heist getaway driver Judith Clark released on parole

News 12 Hudson Valley (New York) ^ | May 10, 2019

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BEDFORD HILLS - Judith Clark, who entered prison as a left-wing revolutionary defiantly refusing to participate in her own murder trial, walked free on Friday as a 69-year-old woman acclaimed for her work behind bars with service dogs, AIDS patients and inmates with babies. ..."

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The 1981 Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army-related Triple Murder in Nyack, NY

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:

"On October 20, 1981 -- long after the Weather Underground had ceased to exist -- former Underground member Kathy Boudin and her soon-to-be husband, David Gilbert, were accomplices in the robbery of a Brinks armored car in Nyack, New York.

In the course of that heist, one Brinks guard and two Nyack police officers were murdered.

Also involved in the robbery was Judith Clark, who had served a prison term for her participation in the 'Days of Rage.'

Boudin hired attorney Leonard Weinglass, a law partner of her father, to defend her in the case.

Weinglass arranged for a plea bargain whereby Boudin pled guilty to one count of felony murder and robbery, in exchange for a prison sentence of twenty years to life.

She was paroled in 2003, however, over strong opposition from New York State police.

Gilbert remains in New York's Attica State Prison, having refused to bargain.

In 1985, former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who also was implicated in the Nyack robbery [Brinks truck robbery/murder]) and Linda Evans were apprehended while transporting 740 pounds of explosives which they both acknowledged were slated for use in additional bombings.

Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans 40;
President Bill Clinton pardoned both women in January 2001."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

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AMBUSH: THE BRINKS ROBBERY OF 1981
[triple murder involving former Weather Underground, Black Liberation Army and Black Panthers members]

Jeral Wayne Williams (AKA Mutulu Shakur)
[stepfather of murdered rapper Tupac Shakur]

"The armored truck's final stop was the Nanuet National Bank on the second level of the mall.

The crew was due to pick up almost $1.6 million dollars in cash from the bank.

Inside the truck was an additional several hundred dollars in cash from earlier collections.

Pete Paige was assigned to guard his partner as he handled the cash.

His partner was assigned to enter the bank, retrieve the moneybags with Paige and place them into the back of the armored vehicle.

Also in the same parking lot that afternoon was a red Chevy van that cruised the area while the guards went inside the mall.

The rear and side windows had been covered with plastic so no one could see inside.

Inside the van was a man named Mutulu Shakur, 31, already a veteran of several armored car and bank robberies committed in the Bronx, Mt. Vernon, NY and Paramus, NJ. Shakur was an adopted name. His real name, or slave name as he described it, was Jeral Wayne Williams.

He was a black nationalist who ran a financially corrupt acupuncture clinic in Lincoln Hospital in New York City, the first such clinic in the Bronx.

Williams was an articulate and persuasive individual who recruited many disciples to follow him.

Under the banner of black self-determination, he convinced his accomplices that it was up to them to seize funds from legitimate sources and "redistribute" the money to various black causes.

With each robbery committed, the gang improved on its methods and became more sophisticated.

They studied the reaction of guards and the police.

They took the time to learn how police handled and investigated such crimes.

Then, they made the appropriate adjustments on the next job.

"David J. Gilbert, 37, rented the vehicle that same day in the Bronx.

Gilbert was a long time member of the Weather Underground and a fugitive from the state of Colorado where he faced charges of assault and possession of explosives.

The passenger in the front seat of the U Haul was Kathy Boudin [another former Weather Underground member], on the run from the law since the townhouse explosion in 1970.

The couple had dropped off their one-year old child with a babysitter in the morning and was waiting for the return of the red van."

"In the back of the red 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.

There were others present, but it has never been proven who, or how many.

All the men in back of the van were members of a group they called 'The Family.'

Most of them had ties to the Black Panthers or the Black Liberation Army, radical political groups that had many violent confrontations with police during the 1970s."

"At approximately 3:55 p.m., Paige, a 24-year Brink's veteran and his partner, Joe Trombino, 48, exited the doors to the Mall rolling out the moneybags on a hand truck.

They walked over to the Brink's truck and began to load up the bags onto the rear deck.

Simultaneously, the red van pulled up and the rear doors swung open.

One of the suspects, armed with a shotgun, ran to the front of the truck and immediately fired two blasts directly at the bulletproof windshield.

The guard in the front seat ducked just in time and was unhurt.

Another suspect, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M-16 automatic rifle before his feet even hit the pavement, striking Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly.

Joe Trombino fired just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder.

The bullets all but severed his arm off his shoulder.

"I've got no arm!" he screamed.

But Trombino would survive that day, only to perish years later in another terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001."

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/4.html

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The Investigation

The suspects were often described as "urban terrorists" in the press and cops everywhere were deeply worried about the role of the Black Liberation Army.

The B.L.A. was a notorious and violent group of extremists who planned and carried out unprovoked shootings of uniformed police officers. During the 1970s and early 1980s, there were several of these types of killings of which the B.L.A. were suspect. On May 20, 1971, New York City Police Officers Joseph Piagentini and Waverly Jones were shot and killed in an ambush in Harlem.

The following year, on January 28, 1972, officers Gregory Foster and Rocco Laurie were murdered outside a restaurant in Manhattan. Another such shooting occurred on the night of April 16, 1981 when uniform cops pulled over a suspicious van in the St. Alban's section of Queens.

Without any warning, two men jumped out of the rear of the van with machine guns and opened up on the unsuspecting cops. Both were immediately killed. This cold-blooded killing enraged cops everywhere. 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.
http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/10.html

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"[Bernardine] Dohrn [Bill Ayers' co-terrorist wife] once was on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. She served seven months in prison for refusing to cooperate with a grand jury investigating a 1981 armored truck robbery in Nyack, N.Y., in which two police officers [and 1 Brinks guard] were killed."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/aponline/20011101/aponline190504_000.htm

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Judith Clark

[DesertRhino]

Has she expressed the slightest sincere regret, admitted fully her guilt, and apologized? Or is she a unrepentant leftist still?

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"Another suspect, wearing a ski mask, opened up with his M-16 automatic rifle before his feet even hit the pavement, striking Paige in the neck, arm and chest. He was killed instantly.

Joe Trombino fired just one shot before he was hit several times in his upper arm and shoulder.

The bullets all but severed his arm off his shoulder.

"I've got no arm!" he screamed.

But Trombino would survive that day, only to perish years later in another terrorist attack at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001."

http://www.crimelibrary.com/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/4.html

Joseph Trombino, killd at the World Trade Center
Sept 11, 2001

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Here’s an updated/working link to the first of two excerpts in my post 3

https://web.archive.org/web/20091025093356/http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/terrorists_spies/terrorists/brinks/10.html

[GYPSY286]

Many years ago I read somewhere that it was speculated that Barak Nobama was one of the members who got away although hurt in a truck crash and that’s the reason for his scar on the side of his head. Guess he would have been about 20 or so and has known Bill Ayers most of his life. Just rumors I suppose.

[tallyhoe]

All of these terrorist should have got the death Penalty!

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Many years ago I read somewhere that it was speculated that Barak Nobama was one of the members who got away although hurt in a truck crash and that’s the reason for his scar on the side of his head.

I seriously doubt that. Obama was and is a revolutionary communist. But he's way too much of a wuss to ever consider getting involved in anything like this himself.

[a fool in paradise]

1981. Weather Underground and Black Panthers robbing bank and killing cops.

and that lying Commie bastard (he was born out of wedlock, look that sht up) Obama said he was only a small chil’e when the Weather Underground were a thing.

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Former Weather Underground member Bernardine Dohrn speaks to members of the press outside Federal Court in New York, May 18, 1982.

Dohrn, being questioned about the Brink's robbery in Nyack, New York in October 1981, has refused to give a sample of her handwriting to a grand jury.

Also present are Dohrn's friend Bill Ayers, left, and attorney Michael Kennedy

https://www.kzoo.edu/praxis/michael-j-kennedy-tribute/

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

All of these terrorist should have got the death Penalty!

Yeah right. Bill Ayers gave a fricking interview to the New York Times on 09/11 while he was stomping on the U.S. flag. Published on 9/11!!!

[alexander_busek]

In addition to the Brink's robbery, May 19th committed a series of bombings at government and military buildings.

Would appreciate any help in parsing this sentence.

Regards,

[alexander_busek]

Have found the information enabling me to understand the above sentence:

The May 19th Communist Organization (also variously referred to as the May 19 Coalition, May 19 Communist Coalition, and various alternatives of M19CO), was a US-based, self-described revolutionary organization formed by members of the Weather Underground Organization.

-Wikipedia

Regards,

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“In 1985, former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg (who also was implicated in the Nyack robbery [Brinks truck robbery/murder]) and Linda Evans were apprehended while transporting 740 pounds of explosives which they both acknowledged were slated for use in additional bombings.

Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison, Evans 40.

President Bill Clinton pardoned both women in January 2001.”

https://web.archive.org/web/20110430020748/http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

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Eric Holder's role in the pardons of BLA comrades/Weather Underground members, Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans...

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
PROFILE: ERIC HOLDER

"As Deputy Attorney General, Holder, as The Washington Post explained, 'was the gatekeeper for presidential pardons.'

Indeed, Holder was a key figure entrusted with the task of vetting the Clinton administration's 176 last-minute pardons in January 2001.

The beneficiaries of those pardons included such notables as former Weather Underground members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans (who had used false identification to buy firearms, harbored a fugitive, and was in possession of 740 pounds of dynamite at the time of her arrest in 1985)."

http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/individualProfile.asp?indid=2357

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Susan Rosenberg Withdraws

Mike Debraggio
December 8, 2004

Susan Rosenberg, who had been invited to Hamilton College as an artist-in-residence with the Kirkland Project, has decided to withdraw.

She was scheduled for a month-long seminar on memoir writing next semester, which raised concerns both on and off campus because of her past.

Ms. Rosenberg served 16 years in prison for possession of explosives and weapons before her sentence was commuted by President Clinton in 2001.

The Hamilton College faculty met on Tuesday afternoon (Dec. 7) and engaged in a thorough and thoughtful discussion and affirmed the high value they place on the free expression of a diversity of opinions by people from a wide variety of backgrounds.

Ms. Rosenberg subsequently indicated that she considered it in the best interests of all parties to withdraw.

https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/susan-rosenberg-withdraws

[ArcadeQuarters]

> Clark’s involvement in the revolutionary May 19th Communist Organization

Communists sure do love money.

[\/\/ayne]

Has she expressed the slightest sincere regret, admitted fully her guilt, and apologized? Or is she an unrepentant leftist still?"

She has, but I don't know if I believe it or not. It just doesn't ring true to me.

Excerpts from Judy Clark’s letter to Governor Cuomo.

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and that lying Commie bastard...Obama said he was only a small chil’e when the Weather Underground were a thing.

Yes, so how could he POSSIBLY know what they were about! /S

"Kill all the rich people. Break up their cars and apartments. Bring the revolution home, kill your parents, that's where it's really at"
--Bill Ayers (1970), quoted in New York Times, September 11, 2001:

Article: "No Regrets for a Love Of Explosives; In a Memoir of Sorts, a War Protester Talks of Life With the Weathermen"
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F02E1DE1438F932A2575AC0A9679C8B63&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=1
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"Dig It. First they killed those pigs [ie, rich people/capitalists], then they ate dinner in the same room with them, they even shoved a fork into a victim's stomach! Wild!"
-Weather Underground leader and wife of Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, referring to the Manson murders

Article: Allies in War -by David Horowitz
FrontPageMagazine.com | Monday, September 17, 2001
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=63512670-BF7C-42A0-B41D-5D0FB9E09C09
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"It was at the Chicago home of [Bill] Ayers and [Bernardine] Dohrn that Obama, then an up-and-coming 'community organizer,' had his political coming out party in 1995. Not content with this rite of passage in Lefty World - where unrepentant terrorists are regarded as progressive luminaries, still working 'only to educate' - both Obamas tended to the relationship with the Ayers."

Article: The Company He Keeps:
Meet Obama's circle: The same old America-hating Left
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YThjYTU1ZDBjNmQ2YzcwNzU1MmYwN2JiMWY0ZGI0NDA=&w=MA==
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"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ..."

"I can remember being one of a small group of people who came to Bill Ayers' house to learn that Alice Palmer was stepping down from the senate and running for Congress,"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8630.html
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"They're certainly friendly" -quote from 'Obama's chief strategist (and reigning expert on Chicago's political tribes), David Axelrod,' on the Bill Ayers, Obama relationship.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Ax_on_Ayers.html

"In 1995, State Senator Alice Palmer introduced her chosen successor, Barack Obama, to a few of the district's influential liberals at the home of two well known figures on the local left: William Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn. ..."

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and that lying Commie bastard...Obama said he was only a small chil’e when the Weather Underground were a thing.

Yes, so how could he POSSIBLY know what they were about! /S

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The Center for Public Intellectuals & The University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC)
April 19th-20th, 2002, Conference
[Participants include: William/Bill Ayers, Bernardine Dohrn, Sen Barack Obama]

April 19th-20th, 2002
Chicago Illini Union
828 S. Wolcott

This conference is part of the Center's mission of helping to create a more engaged civil society, working towards social change, fostering coalitions between theorists and activists, and combating anti-intellectualism in contemporary culture. It will be both a celebration of ideas and a rigorous examination of the roles and responsibilities that intellectuals play in society.

I. Why Do Ideas Matter? (a keynote panel)

We introduce the “meta” theme of the conference by hearing “success stories” from diverse voices discussing their experiences intervening intellectually.

Timuel Black, Chicago activist; Prof. Emeritus, City Colleges of Chicago
Lonnie Bunch, President, Chicago Historical Society
Bernardine Dohrn, Northwestern University Law School, Children and Family Justice Center
Gerald Graff, UIC, College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
Richard Rorty, Stanford University, Philosophy

III. Lunch and Public Encounters

Alternative breakout tours led by Chicago activists. Tours of Bronzeville and other communities, and visits to organizations that are working on partnering theorists with activists.

IV. Intellectuals in Times of Crisis
Experiences and applications of intellectual work in urgent situations.

William Ayers, UIC, College of Education; author of Fugitive Days
Douglass Cassel, Northwestern University, Center for International Human Rights
Cathy Cohen, University of Chicago, Political Science
Salim Muwakkil, Chicago Tribune; In These Times
Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator
Barbara Ransby, UIC, African-American Studies (moderator)

The Center for Public Intellectuals
University of Illinois-Chicago (UIC):
http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

http://www.uic.edu/classes/las/las400/conferencealt.htm

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Just recently came across this. Don't yet know if it's for real, but it certainly could be. They worked together at the University of Chicago. Annenberg Project, etc.

May be the only pic they couldn't get their hands on to destroy.