6. Katherine Ann Power & Susan Edith Saxe, Part 1

It's time for some "counterculture!" What do you get when you cross two liberal arts educated Vietnam War protesters and some actual criminals? R A D I C A L S. This is part 1 of our two-part series on Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe. Happy Women's History Month!


Sources:

*Note: Some of these old articles come from a time before everything had a byline. If I’m not naming a person, it’s because there wasn’t a byline on the article.*

  • New York Times: “Headliners: Susan Saxe Gets Out”

  • New York Times: “In Slain Officer’s Family, Anger, and Forgiveness” by Sara Rimer

  • New York Times: “Man Awaiting Trial Killed in Explosion in Bay State Prison”

  • New York Times: “Ex-Radical Gets 8 to 12 Years in 1970 Killing, and a Rebuke” by Sara Rimer

  • New York Times: “Radical Fugitive is Apprehended”

  • Harvard Crimson: “When the trial for these suspects ends, people are going to be very bewildered about… why?” by Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. McCarthy

  • Harvard Crimson: “A Bank is Robbed, A Cop is Killed, A Movement is Hung” by Scott W. Jacobs and Michael B. McCarthy

  • Harvard Crimson: “Susan Saxe Pleads Guilty; Receives 10-12 Year Sentence” by Deborah Gelin

  • The New Yorker: “Return of the Fugitive” by Lucinda Franks

  • Boston Globe: Apologetic in the end, William Gilday dies” by David Abel

  • Cape Cod Times: “Katherine Ann Power freed from prison after six years”

  • Washington Post: “Ex-Fugitive Katherine Power Sentenced to 8-12 Years for 1970 Robbery” by Christopher B. Daly

  • Oregon State University Press Release: “Former FBI Fugitive Katherine Ann Power returns to Corvallis for talk”

  • Court Record for Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. William Morrill Gilday, Jr.

  • A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn

  • So much Wikipedia


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