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Thomas William Manning (June 28, 1946 – July 29, 2019) was an American Marxist militant convicted of killing
Manning's personal website
*, a film about the killing of Philip Lamonaco
Thomas William Manning (June 28, 1946 – July 29, 2019) was an American Marxist militant convicted of killing New Jersey State Police
The New Jersey State Police (NJSP) is the official state police force of the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is a general-powers police agency with statewide jurisdiction, designated by troop sectors.
History
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trooper Philip J. Lamonaco during a traffic stop in 1981. Before and after the murder he was involved with a Marxist
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organization, the United Freedom Front (UFF), which bombed a series of US military and commercial institutes and committed bank robberies in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Early life
The son of a Boston postal clerk, he shined shoes and raised pigeons, in his early youth, before finding work as a stock boy. He joined the US Military in 1963, and the following year was stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba before being transferred off to spend the following year in the Vietnam War. Some time shortly after 1965, he was sentenced by a Massachusetts state court to five years in prison for armed robbery andassault
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, serving the last ten months in MCI-Cedar Junction. He later claimed that during these years that he became heavily politicized through his interactions with other prisoners.
After his release in 1971, he married Carol and together they had three children: Jeremy, Tamara, and Jonathan.
United Freedom Front
In 1975, Manning's friend Raymond Levasseur co-founded the ''Sam Melville/Jonathan Jackson Unit'' along with Manning, Pat Gros (Rowbottom), and Carol Manning. This eventually became known as the United Freedom Front. From 1975 to 1984 the UFF carried out ten of bank robberies in the Northeast United States to support intermittent UFF political bombings and later, to support their "life on the run". Manning was convicted for killing New Jersey State trooper Philip J. Lamonaco during a traffic stop on December 21, 1981. The killing launched the largest manhunt in New Jersey police history, and ended with the arrests of Raymond and Patricia Levasseur, Richard Williams, Jaan Laaman, and Barbara Curzi on November 4, 1984, and Tom and Carol Manning, on April 24, 1985. All were associated with the United Freedom Front. Manning pleaded self-defense at his trial. He was sentenced to life in prison on February 19, 1987. In September 2006, the University of Southern Maine removed Manning's artwork from an art presentation, and apologized for allowing him to be heralded as a " political prisoner" by event organizers. Manning's projected release date was September 28, 2020. Manning died in prison inBruceton Mills, West Virginia
Bruceton Mills is a town in northern Preston County, West Virginia, United States, along Big Sandy Creek. The population was 64 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Morgantown metropolitan area.
History
An early settler, John M. Hoffman, named ...
on July 29, 2019, aged 73.
External links
Manning's personal website
*, a film about the killing of Philip Lamonaco
References