'70s radical wants to serve parole in Illinois http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-sla-member-parolemar24,0,3922116.story
By Robert Mitchum | Tribune reporter March 24, 2009 State corrections officials are reviewing a request by a member of a 1970s radical group convicted of murder in California to serve his parole in Illinois. James William Kilgore, 61, will be released from a California prison in May after serving a 6-year sentence for the 1975 killing of Myrna Opsahl in a bank robbery by members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, which gained international notoriety after it kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. In advance of his release, Kilgore filed a request to serve his one year of supervised parole in Illinois, where his wife began a professorship at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign last year. On Monday, a spokesman for the Illinois Department of Corrections confirmed that they had received the request and that it was under consideration. Last week, two police groupsthe National Association of Police Organizations and the Los Angeles Police Protective Leaguesent letters to Govs. Patrick Quinn and Arnold Schwarzenegger opposing Kilgore's request. More than 1,000 parolees from the California system are under supervision in other states, said a spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections. Kilgore's wife, Teresa Barnes, has been an associate professor teaching gender/women's studies and history at the U. of I. since the summer of 2008, according to a university Web site. Kilgore met and married Barnes while hiding from authorities in the southern Africa nations of Zimbabwe and South Africa under an assumed name since 1975. . --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sixties-L" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sixties-l?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
