David Gilbert

Gilbert's mugshot shortly after his arrest in the Nyack, NY Brinks robbery nin which two policemen and a security guard were killed.

David Joseph Gilbert (born October 6, 1944 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was a high-level Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Weather Underground Organization (WUO) operative now serving an extended prison sentence in New York state for his role in the 1981 robbery of an armored truck in which two police officers and a Brinks guard were killed. Gilbert was a member of the Maoist Ayers/Dohrn Action Faction which expelled Communist Party USA (CPUSA) members from SDS leadership. Without Moscow and CPUSA backing, WUO operatives turned to bank robbery and armored truck heists to fund revolutionary activity in the United States

Gilbert was highly active in SDS activities during the Columbia University strike in 1968 and became SDS Regional Community Organizer. Gilbert's fingerprints were found at a WUO bomb factory in San Fransisco. Gilbert is also affiliated with the Prairie Fire Organizing Committee.

At a debate at the University of Denver on November 11, 1969, Gilbert stated a violent Third World revolution was only to achieve the goal of "world communism."