• Member of the Symbionese Liberation Army terrorist group in the 1970s

James Kilgore joined the Symbionese Liberation Army, a domestic terrorist group of the 1970s, with friend Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olson) after six of its founding members had been killed in a shootout with Los Angeles police in 1974.

Following his participation in the 1975 murder of 42-year-old nurse Myrna Opsahl during an SLA robbery of the Crocker Bank in Carmichael, California, Kilgore went underground and lived in South Africa for nearly 28 years. During that time, he took a job at the University of Cape Town, married, and fathered two children.

In 2002 Kilgore was extradited to the United States, where he pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of Opsahl and was sentenced to six years in prison.