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Assata Shakur

Jul 16, 1947 (77 years old) in Queens, New York, USA

Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.

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13th
Self (archive footage)
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Assata aka Joanne Chesimard
Self (archive footage)
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Fred Baker - filmmaker
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Eyes of the Rainbow
Self

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