Chesa, Kathy, and David

Criminal

Vox Media Podcast Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Documentary

4.7 • 38.4K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Kathy Boudin and David Gilbert were once members of the radical activist group the Weather Underground. In 1981, they helped members of the Black Liberation Army rob a Brink’s armored car at the Nanuet National Bank. Their son, Chesa Boudin, was 14 months old at the time. He spent his childhood visiting his parents in prison. Criminal is going back on tour in February! We’ll be telling brand new stories, live on stage. You can even get meet and greet tickets to come and say hi before the show. Tickets are on sale now at thisiscriminal.com/live. We can’t wait to see you there! Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: iTunes.com/CriminalShow. Sign up for Criminal Plus to get behind-the-scenes bonus episodes of Criminal, ad-free listening of all of our shows, members-only merch, and more. Learn more and sign up here. Listen back through our archives at youtube.com/criminalpodcast. We also make This is Love and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop. Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:38.0	If you've never been to one of our live shows, we pack the night with brand new stories, plus video and
0:45.1	photos of the people you're hearing about and original animations. You'll learn
0:49.2	how to be a pickpocket, I'll be wearing a tuxedo. Just kidding. Well, maybe. We're planning a very
0:56.5	special anniversary evening. We'll be in Seattle, San Francisco, L. A. St. Paul,
1:01.4	Chicago, Boston, Toronto, New York, Philadelphia, D.C. Raleigh, Dublin, and London.
1:08.0	Tickets are on sale now at This Is Criminal.com slash live.
1:12.0	We can't wait to see you there.
1:14.0	How would you describe your mother and father?
1:20.0	Well, the first thing I would say is that I have two mothers and two fathers, and I suppose that's not so uncommon in today's world with high rates of divorce, but that wasn't the issue in my case. So the first
1:36.2	thing I'd have to ask is which set of parents are you referring to?
1:40.1	Yeah, let's start with the first set that you knew.
1:43.2	All right, the biological parents as I call them.
1:45.4	Biological set.
1:47.8	My biological mother was Kathy Boudin. My biological father is David Gilbert. David grew up in Boston, Kathy grew up in New York.
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