7. Katherine Ann Power & Susan Edith Saxe, Part 2

In part two of our two part series on Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe, we find out what happened to each of the members of the poorly executed bank robbery team, including these two radicals on the run. 


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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