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      BOUDIN, Kathy, 1943-; AYERS, Bill; BRAUDY, Susan
    • Abstract:
      Kathy Boudin is coming home--but she'll receive a decidedly mixed greeting. Some are thrilled. "This is the best birthday present you could ask for," says her son Chesa, 23. Others are shocked. Upon hearing the news, South Nyack Police Chief Alan Colsey muttered, "I was numb, speechless." Boudin, a former member of the Weather Underground, was sentenced to 20 years to life for her role in an armed robbery in 1981 that left three men dead. On Aug. 20 the New York State Parole Board informed Boudin that she would be freed by October. Boudin's imminent freedom was no cause for celebration for the families of murdered Brink's security guard Peter Paige and Nyack police officers Waverly Brown and Sgt. Edward O'Grady. The daughter of a prominent civil rights attorney and the subject of a new biography, Family Circle (written by her Bryn Mawr classmate Susan Braudy), Boudin was a fugitive at the time of the deadly Brink's robbery. She had played a part in several previous Weather Underground actions, surviving an explosion in Greenwich Village that killed three fellow members.