Linda Sue Evans ( born May 11 , 1947 ) is an American radical leftist who was convicted in connection with violent and deadly militant activities committed as part of her goal to free African Americans from white oppression . 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 , and Black Liberation Army members were wounded . In a second case , she was sentenced in 1990 to five years in prison for conspiracy and malicious destruction in connection with eight symbolic bombings including the 1983 United States Senate bombing , carried out at night so that no persons were harmed . Her sentence was commuted in 2001 by President Bill Clinton because of the unprecedented length of her sentence
Brinks armored truck robbery
Brink's robbery (1981)
Linda Evans (radical)