Assata Shakur
- Schauspiel
- 16. Juli 1947 · Queens, New York, USA
Biografie
Assata Olugbala Shakur, born JoAnne Deborah Byron, sometimes referred to by her married surname Chesimard, is a former member of the Black Liberation Army, who was convicted, under New Jersey's "aiding and abetting" statute, of the first-degree murder of State Trooper Werner Foerster during a shootout on the New Jersey Turnpike in 1973. On November 2, 1979, she escaped from prison, and in 1984, she surfaced in Cuba, where she was granted political asylum.
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Filmografie
- Der 13. · Selbst
- Assata aka Joanne Chesimard · Selbst
- Fred Baker - filmmaker
- Eyes of the Rainbow · Selbst
- Untitled Assata Shakur Documentary · Selbst