![]() On December 6, 1990, federal judge Harold H. Along with several others, Alan Berkman, a Columbia-trained doctor who was one of the few men in the M19 inner circle, was involved with the John Brown Anti-Klan Committee. New Yorker Susan Rosenberg, one of M19’s earliest members, traveled to Cuba with the Castro-friendly Venceremos Brigade, and Italian-born Silvia Baraldini was part of a front for the militant Weather Underground. M19 membership typically followed involvement with other far-left groups. Many M19 members’ stories echo Linda’s-college activism (at schools including Cornell, Berkeley, Radcliffe and Hampshire College) shaped their far-left worldviews, and for some, their status as out lesbians put them at odds with a heteronormative, patriarchal society. Who were these domestic terrorists sought by the FBI? Rosenau writes of “self-described ‘corn-fed girl’” Linda Sue Evans, whose politics took a radical turn while attending Michigan State University in the midst of the Vietnam War. imperialism or the war machine under various organizational aliases (never using the name M19). ![]() The attacks tended to follow a similar pattern: a warning call to clear the area, an explosion, a pre-recorded message to media railing against U.S. Over the course of a 20-month span in 19, M19 also bombed an FBI office, the Israel Aircraft Industries building, and the South African consulate in New York, D.C.’s Fort McNair and Navy Yard (which they hit twice.) Ten minutes later, a bomb detonated in the building’s north wing, harming no one but blasting a 15-foot gash in a wall and causing $1 million in damage. Capitol switchboard and warned them to evacuate the building. on November 7, 1983, they called the U.S. 20, 2001, his final day in office, President Bill Clinton commuted Evans’ sentence to time served. 6, 1999, Whitehorn was released on parole after serving just over 14 years. Whitehorn was sentenced to 20 years Evans, to five years, to be served concurrently with 35 years for having illegally bought guns. Greene dropped charges against three co-defendants because they were already serving extended prison sentences for related terrorist crimes. Greene sentenced Whitehorn and Evans to lengthy prison terms for conspiracy and malicious destruction of government property. They were charged with executing the Capitol bombing as well as triggering similar blasts at Fort McNair and the Washington Navy Yard. Officials placed the damage at $250,000.Īfter a five-year investigation, in May 1988 FBI agents arrested seven members of the “Resistance Conspiracy”: Marilyn Jean Buck, Linda Sue Evans, Susan Rosenberg, Timothy Blunk, Alan Berkman, Laura Whitehorn and Elizabeth Ann Duke. The blast also punched a hole in a partition that sent a shower of pulverized brick, plaster and glass into the Republican cloakroom behind the chamber.Īlthough the explosion caused no structural damage to the Capitol, it shattered mirrors, chandeliers and furniture. Over the coming months, a conservator painstakingly restored the painting to a credible, if somewhat diminished, version of the original.) (The blast tore away Webster’s face and left it scattered across the floor tiles in one-inch canvas shards.Įnate officials recovered the fragments from debris-filled trash bins. It also damaged five paintings, particularly a stately portrait of Massachusetts Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), the minority leader. The force of the device, hidden under a bench outside the Senate chamber, blew the hinges off the door to the office of Sen.
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