Levasseur at his "art exhibit" in Portland this week.In 1975, Levasseur was arrested in Connecticut on a firearms violation. He jumped bail and began life as a fugitive.
Levasseur, Manning, their wives and children and other allies spent the next nine years moving from place to place in the Northeast. They were indicted in a bank robbery in Portland, a charge that was later folded into the sedition and racketeering prosecution. They were also blamed for numerous bombings that targeted businesses that worked with South Africa's apartheid government.
They were often rumored to return to Maine. Portland's deputy police chief, William Ridge, then a young patrolman, said the department was always on guard when they heard those reports.
"The biggest fear was that you would pull someone over for a traffic stop and get shot," Ridge said. "When we heard they were around, we didn't make a lot of traffic stops."
The search for the group intensified after the murder of New Jersey Trooper Philip Lamonaco, who was killed after pulling over a car on the New Jersey Turnpike. Manning later admitted to killing Lamonaco, but claimed it was done in self-defense.
Levasseur, his wife, Patricia Gros, and three others were arrested in Cleveland in November 1984. Manning and his wife, Carol Ann, were captured in Norfolk, Va., in April 1985.
Levasseur was sent to New York for trial in a bombing case. He and co-defendant Richard Williams were both convicted and sentenced to 45 years in prison.
Manning was convicted of felony murder for the death of Lamonaco. He was sentenced to 80 years in prison, in addition to 53 years for a separate bombing conviction.
May 1977: Raymond Levasseur's name is placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. November 1984: Seven years as a fugitive end with his arrest by the FBI in Deerfield, Ohio. March 1989: Levasseur and five other radicals are tried in U.S. District Court in New York for numerous bombings at corporate offices and military installations. Levasseur is convicted and, a month later, sentenced to 45 years in prison.
August 2004: Police say Levasseur is about to be paroled to a federal halfway house in Portland. SOME OF THE 22 bombings linked to Levasseur's groups: April 1976: Suffolk County Courthouse in Boston.n May 1976: Central Maine Power's headquarters in Augusta. July 1976: U.S. Post Office, Seabrook, N.H. May 1983: Roosevelt Army Reserve Center, Long Island and Navy Reserve Center, Queens, N.Y. September 1984: Union Carbide offices, Mt. Pleasant, N.Y.
If it's not about the children, it's all about the art.
Levasseur at his "art exhibit" in Portland this week.Throw that SOB into solitary with bread and water.
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...think they'll hold an art exhibit commemorating Timothy McVeigh? Or would that be "insensitive"?
Maybe the demonstrators can go all out and host an exibit of Adolf Hitler's artwork. Since they love sychopathic murderers who have artistic pretentions, old Adolf would fit right in.
I'll have to agree with the woman above who said, "You have to seperate the art from the artist". Manning may indeed be a murdering scumbag, but his art obviously has merit.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus