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Clark was released in 2019, and Gilbert remains behind bars. Police arrested several people - one of whom was Kathy Boudin, who escaped the townhouse with Wilkerson a decade earlier.īoudin served 22 years in prison for her role in the heist. Her accomplices, and fellow Weathermen, Judith Clark and Boudin's partner David Gilbert, were also sentenced to prison for their crimes. A subsequent shootout with the robbers killed two Nyack police officers. As detailed by The New York Times, on October 21, 1981, in a brazen daylight assault, a group of heavily armed suspects in ski masks robbed a Brinks armored truck at a mall in Nanuet, New York, taking more than $1.5 million and killing one of the guards, Peter Paige. 'It was a big you.' To who? The establishment, the 'Amerikan justice' system.Īnother ghost from the deadly townhouse explosion resurfaced in 1981, perhaps in an even more shocking way than when she disappeared. 'It was a real poke in the eye to California and the drug laws,' said one Weather Underground member. A new age cult called the Brotherhood of Eternal Love, whose core principles included the use of LSD, put up nearly $20,000 to help the WUO spring Leary from a California jail, where he was being held on minor pot possession charges. One stunt to call attention to injustice was to stage the prison break of counterculture psychedelic guru Timothy Leary.

Still, the Bureau put a dozen of them on its Most Wanted List, and the WUO's members were media darlings because of their charisma, intelligence, and brash rhetoric - often at the expense of other leftist groups, according to Slate. The FBI believed the group to be nearly 4,000 strong, but in reality, it was much less than that. The WUO boasted a membership in the several hundred, hiding out scattered across the country in small communities of three to five people (think 'cells') and all reporting to the Weather Bureau.

Weather underground history