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Susan Lisa Rosenberg (born 1955) is an American radical who is accused of driving the getaway car in the Brinks robbery in which two police officers and an armored-car guard were killed. After living as a fugitive for two years, she was arrested with an accomplice, Timothy Blunk, in 1984 while unloading 740 pounds of dynamite and weapons from a car into a storage locker in Cherry Hill, New Jersey . She had also been sought as an accomplice in the 1979 prison escape of Joanne Chesimard. Rosenberg was sentenced to 58 years in prison on the weapons and explosives charges, but was not tried for the Brinks robbery and deaths. Her sentence was commuted by President Bill Clinton on January 20, 2001, his final day in office.

Rosenberg was born in to a wealthy and privileged family in Manhattan, attending the prestigious Walden School and Barnard College.

In the 1970s and early 1980s Rosenberg used her father's wealth and political influence to controversially push her way into the May 19 Communist Organization, a splinter from the Weather Underground, a violent leftist organization in the United States.

Rosenberg was charged with a role in the 1983 bombing of the United States Capitol Building, the U.S. Naval War College, an Israeli aircraft company, and the New York Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, but the charges were dropped as part of a plea deal by other members of her group.

A statement that her compatriots issued, on the occasion of the Capitol bombing, said, "We purposely aimed our attack at the institutions of imperialist rule rather than at individual members of the ruling class. We did not choose to kill any of them this time. But their lives are not sacred."

Rosenberg was one of the first two inmates of the High Security Unit (HSU), a high-security isolation unit in the basement of the Federal Correctional Institution in Lexington, Kentucky. Allegations were made that the unit was an experimental underground political prison that practiced isolation and sensory deprivation . After a lawsuit was brought by the ACLU and other organizations, the unit was ordered closed by a federal judge in 1988 and the prisoners transferred to regular cells.

She explained her actions on the WBAI radio station, "I was totally and profoundly influenced by the revolutionary movement in the '60s and '70s."

Her pardon produced a wave of criticism by police and New York elected officials.

In 2004 Hamilton College offered her a position to teach a for-credit month-long seminar, "Resistance Memoirs: Writing, Identity and Change." Some professors, alumni and parents of students objected and as a result of the ongoing protests, she withdrew from the offer.

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