Background
Plamondon"s father was half-Odawa and his mother was part-Ojibwe, which he was unaware of early in life.
Plamondon"s father was half-Odawa and his mother was part-Ojibwe, which he was unaware of early in life.
He was the first hippie to be listed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation"s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. A Traverse City, Michigan couple adopted him and gave him his name, Lawrence Robert Plamondon. Plamondon had a troubled childhood and left home as a teenager.
At the age of 21, Plamondon was in Detroit, Michigan in 1967, when the protests against the Vietnam War and riot occurred.
Making sandals during the day and smoking marijuana in the evening, he was soon meeting with John Sinclair. With John Sinclair, they founded the White Panther Party, which supported the goals of the Black Panther Party.
He was indicted for bombing a Central Intelligence Agency office in Ann Arbor on September 29, 1968. Changing his appearance, he went underground and fled to San Francisco, Seattle, New York, Germany, Italy, and finally to Algeria.
In May 1970, he was listed on the Federal Bureau of Investigation"s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
After a few months he covertly returned to the United States. In July 1970, Plamondon was discovered and arrested after being stopped for littering. While waiting trial and after being convicted, he spent 32 months in federal prison.
During the trial, the government admitted to wiretapping without a warrant.
The case went to the United States Supreme Court and was decided in United States v. United States. District Court, which held that even the invocation of "national security" by the president of the United States couldn"t insulate illegal activity from Constitutional rights to privacy (407 United States. 297 (1972)).
The charges were dismissed. Later, Plamondon found work driving equipment trucks for rock bands including Kiss and Foreigner.
He is a self-employed carpenter.
He tells American Indian stories to young children at schools, libraries, museums, and summer camps. His home is a gathering place for American Indian celebrations.