Laura Jane Whitehorn was born in April 1945 to Lenore and Nathaniel Whitehorn of Brooklyn, New York. As a college student in the 1960s, she organized and participated in civil rights and anti-war movements. as well as involvement in a series of revolutionary bombings and armed robberies. After her graduation from Radcliffe College in 1966, she went on to receive her master’s from Brandeis University.
A civil rights and anti-war activist, Whitehorn was arrested and convicted in 1985 in the Resistance Conspiracy to attack the U.S. Capitol, the Navy War College, and other targets; she was released from prison in August, 1999.
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