Linda Evans (radical)
Linda Sue Evans (born May 11, 1947, in Fort Dodge, Iowa) is an American radical leftist who was convicted for militant activities. Evans was sentenced in 1987 to 40 years in prison for using false identification to buy firearms and for harboring a fugitive in the 1981 Brinks armored truck robbery, in which two police officers and a guard were killed. In a second case, she was sentenced in 1990 to five years in prison for conspiracy and malicious destruction in connection with eight bombings including that of the U. S. Capitol in the mid-1980s. Her sentence was commuted in 2001 by President Bill Clinton.
Read more about Linda Evans (radical): Students For A Democratic Society, Weather Underground Organization, Life Since Prison
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“A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.”
—Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)