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(Wednesday, September 23, 1970, 9:20 a.m. EDT; during the Opposition to United States involvement in the Vietnam War) — Using an arsenal of weapons stolen from the Massachusetts National Guard armory in Newburyport, Massachusetts, a criminal gang of three men and two women robbed $26,000 from a bank today in Brighton, Massachusetts, to obtain funds for anti-Vietnam War efforts.

The first police officer on the scene, Boston cop Walter Schroeder, 42, was shot in the back by Gilday when he attempted to stop the robbery. Schroeder, a father of nine, died the following day at 10:12 a.m.

Katherine Ann Power and Susan Edith Saxe, graduates of Brandeis University, had joined with Stanley Ray Bond and and ex-convicts William Gilday and Robert Valeri, whom Bond had met in prison, to commit the crime.

The three men would be captured shortly after the robbery, but Saxe wasn’t caught until 1975 and Power remained free until 1993.