Marilyn Buck, 62, a violent leftist incarcerated for 25 years for her role in some of the most notorious radical acts of the 1980s, died Tuesday in Brooklyn.
Buck had been paroled July 15 from a federal prison hospital in Fort Worth, Texas. Her death was confirmed by federal probation and parole agencies. Friends and supporters wrote that the cause of death was uterine cancer.
Buck belonged to a clique of anti-war and civil-rights activists who took up arms in the 1970s. On Oct. 20, 1981, she was part of a group of Weather Underground and Black Liberation Army members who ambushed a Brink’s armored car carrying $1.6 million at a mall in Nanuet, N.Y. One guard was killed at the scene.
She was also involved in a series of bombings, including a 1983 nighttime blast at the Capitol that didn’t hurt anyone but damaged Senate offices. The bomb was purportedly placed to protest the U.S. invasion of Grenada. The Associated Press
