1947-07-16 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) | 2016-10-07 |
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Assata aka Joanne Chesimard | Self (archive footage) | 2008-02-15 |
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Fred Baker - filmmaker | 2007-07-26 | |
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Eyes of the Rainbow | Self | 1997-01-01 |
