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As the dumpy, balding, middle-aged man entered the Cape Town courtroom, one spectator cried, "Viva, John! Viva!" Scores of other voices joined the refrain praising the "labor activist" known as John Pape, who -- according to a news account -- responded "with smiles, thumbs up, and finally a clenched-fist salute." The Communist salute was fitting, since "John Pape" is actually James Kilgore, a fugitive terrorist bomber accused of murdering an innocent housewife nearly 30 years ago.
In 1973, Kilgore belonged to the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a Marxist terrorist cult that became notorious for kidnapping and brainwashing newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst. After the SLA's leadership died in a 1975 shootout with Los Angeles police, Kilgore and four of his comrades -- Michael Bortin, Bill Harris, Sara Jane Olson, and Emily Montague -- became fugitives.
Bortin, Harris, Olson, and Montague were arraigned in ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Passing the terrorist torch. (Insider Report).