Biography
Susan Edith Saxe was a 21-year-old Brandeis University student in 1970 and one of the principal organizers of a small anti-war affinity group that planned to fund underground militant action through bank robberies. On September 20, 1970 she and Katherine Ann Power were among five who carried out an armed raid on the Newburyport, Massachusetts National Guard armory; on September 23, 1970 they participated in an armed robbery of a State Street Bank branch in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston in which co-defendant William Gilday shot Boston Police Officer Walter Schroeder in the back as he responded to the call.
She went underground after the robbery and was placed on the FBI Most Wanted list on October 17, 1970 — one of the first U.S. women on the list. She was captured in Philadelphia on March 27, 1975 and was convicted of bank robbery, manslaughter, and conspiracy. She served five years in Massachusetts state prison; she was released in 1982. After her release she became a longtime Philadelphia Jewish-feminist organizer and the executive director of the Bread and Roses Community Fund.
