American militant and political prisoner (born 1946)
Raymond Luc Levasseur |
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Photograph taken 1975 |
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Born | October 10, 1946 Portland, Maine, U.S.[1] |
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Penalty | 45 years (sentenced 1989) |
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Status | Paroled November 2004 |
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Added | May 5, 1977 |
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Caught | November 4, 1984 |
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Number | 350 |
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Raymond Luc Levasseur (born October 10, 1946[1]) is the former leader of the United Freedom Front, a militant Marxist organization that conducted a series of bombings and bank robberies throughout the United States from 1976 to 1984, in protest to US intervention in Central America and around the world, racism, and the South African apartheid regime.[2][3][4]
- ^ a b "FBI Wanted Poster of Raymond Luc Levasseur". Hake's. January 28, 1977. Archived from the original on June 17, 2024. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
- ^ James, Joy (2003). Imprisoned Intellectuals: America's political prisoners write on life, liberation, and rebellion. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 227–229. ISBN 978-0-7425-2027-1.
- ^ Wormwood, Rick (December 17–23, 2004). "Sanfordís son". Archived from the original on 2008-12-04.
- ^ Burrough, Bryan (2016). "The Last Revolutionaries: The United Freedom Front, 1981 to 1984". Days Of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. Penguin Publishing Group. ISBN 9780143107972. Archived from the original on 2023-05-25.