RADICALS CHESIMARD JOANNE DEBORAH Wanted by FBI Joanne Debor

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RADICALS. CHESIMARD, JOANNE DEBORAH. Wanted by FBI. Joanne Deborah Chesimard, Andrew Jackson, Melvin Kazak Kearney, and Twymon Ford Myers. Group of four FBI Wanted posters for Chesimard and three fellow Black Liberation Army members, 8 x 8 inches, standard "post office" style posters. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1972

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Assata Olugbala Shakur (nee JoAnne Deborah Byron, married name Chesimard) is an African-American activist, escaped convicted murderer, and member of the former Black Panther Party (BPP) and Black Liberation Army (BLA). Between 1971 and 1973, Shakur was accused of several crimes and was the subject of a multistate manhunt. In 1973, she was involved in a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike, in which she was accused of killing New Jersey State Trooper Werner Foerster. Shakur was incarcerated in several prisons in the '70s, but escaped from prison in 1979 and has been living in Cuba in political asylum since 1984.