May 2, 2005

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?

When I went to visit Jon’s grave a couple of weeks ago, JR handed me a piece of paper and said, “look what they put on the bulletin board of my job.” JR works security, so I was pretty interested to see what it was. Turns out it was a wanted poster for Joanne Deborah Chesimard, a name that looked incredibly familiar to me. While perusing the jillion of aliases, I came across the one that made it all connect–Assata Shakur.

It seemed odd that her poster would just appear now. First, she’d been wanted for more than twenty-five years. The other strange thing was that she’s been in Cuba for as long as nearly anyone remembers. Why put her poster up in DC?

Today, we found out why. ‘Twas a preliminary PR push.
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