Michelle Duclos
Michelle Duclos (1938 – 18 December 2017) was a Canadian Québécois independence activist. A resident of Quebec, she was a supporter of the Front de Libération du Québec. While employed as a performer on CFTM-TV in 1965, and a member of the Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale, she became involved in a plot to bomb the Statue of Liberty in collusion with the Black Liberation Front, a militant Black Power group based in Harlem. Radio and TV Career 1960-61 : C.J.L.R. - Québec 1962-63 : C.H.L.N.- Trois-Rivières 1963 : Télé-Métropole 1967-1973 : Liban, TV End of 1973 : C.J.R.P. "Monumental" Plot Twenty-six-year-old Canadian Duclos, together with three American men, Walter Augustus Bowe, Khaicel Sultan Sayyed and accused leader Robert Steele Collier, were arrested in New York on February 16, 1965 in connection with an attempted terrorist plot. The men were part of an extremist organization known as the "Black Liberation Front" (BLF), while Duclos was a member of the Quebec nationalist group Rassemblement pour l'Indépendance Nationale. The BLF was formed by Collier following a trip to Cuba in August 1964, where he met Michelle Saunier. Saunier, a native of Metz, France, and doctoral candidate at the University of Montreal, had traveled