Stanley Ray Bond

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subject_name = Stanley Ray Bond


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date_of_death = June 24 1972
place_of_death = Walpole, Massachusetts
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Stanley Ray Bond (died June 24 1972) was a former convict who enrolled at Brandeis University in Boston, Massachusetts, United States and was arrested for an anti-war bank robbery in Boston during the Vietnam War. During the robbery a Boston Police Department officer was shot and killed, with Bond and several accomplices captured following the robbery. Bond then died in prison awaiting trial when a bomb he built to use for an escape detonated.

Brandeis

In February 1970 Stanley Bond enrolled at Brandeis University as part of a government sponsored program for ex-convicts out on parole.cite web
last = Wilson
first = Bradford P.
title = Dubious Sympathies
work = On Principle
date = October 1993
url = http://www.ashbrook.org/publicat/onprin/v1n3/wilson.html
accessdate = 2007-06-14] While in prison Bond had become friends with the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, and on the outside he became involved with the National Student Strike Force. This organization advocated strikes across the country by students as a protest to the Vietnam War. While involved with these anti-war protests Bond met Susan Saxe and Katherine Ann Power, becoming involved with Power romantically.

Robbery and death

These three along with two ex-cons then made plans to rob a bank in order to finance the activities of the Black Panthers.cite journal
last = Carlson
first = Margaret
title = Return of the Fugitive
journal = Time
date = September 27 1993
url = http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,979294-1,00.html
accessdate = 2007-06-14] First the group burglarized and torched a Massachusetts National Guard armory on September 20 1970, stealing ammunition. Then on September 23 1970 Bond, Sax, Power, William Gilday, and Robert Valeri robbed a Brighton, Massachusetts bank of $26,000. During the holdup, Gilday shot police officer Walter A. Schroeder in the back and killed him.

Bond, Gilday, and Valeri were all captured soon after the robbery, while Saxe remained at large for five years and Power until 1993. On June 24 1972, Stanley Bond died at Walpole State Prison. His remains were interred at Los Angeles National Cemetery in California on July 2 1972. [http://www.abcf.net/la/laabcf.asp?page=labond Gravesite of Stanley Ray Bond.] Anarchist Black Cross Federation. Retrieved on February 29 2008.] Bond died when a bomb that he was making for an escape attempt exploded prematurely.

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External links

* [http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=353667 Harvard University: The Crimson: 10-5-1970]
* [http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=353687 Harvard University: The Crimson: 10-6-1970]