David Gilbert

Writer, Author

1944 –

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Who is David Gilbert?

David Gilbert is an American radical leftist organizer and activist who is currently imprisoned at Auburn Correctional Facility. Gilbert was a founding member of Columbia University Students for a Democratic Society and member of the Weather Underground Organization. After about ten years underground, he was arrested for his part in the Brink's robbery in October 1981, along with members of the Black Liberation Army and other radicals including Kathy Boudin, his partner and mother of Chesa Boudin. He and she both participated in that robbery and were sent to prison for their part in the resulting murders of Nyack police officers Waverly Brown and Edward O'Grady and Brinks guard Peter Paige.

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Born
Oct 6, 1944
Children
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • Columbia University
  • The New School

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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