January 1969: Linda Grinage, infant daughter strapped to her back and Husband Tyrone Austin at her side, boards a Miami-bound airplane in New York City. Crying "Black power, Havana!" the couple hijacks the plane to Cuba. Grinage holds a gun to the head of a two-year-old passenger.
July 1988: outside her home in Albany, just three blocks from Governor Mario Cuomo's mansion, Child-Care Worker Haziine Eytina is arrested by FBI agents. Her real identity, authorities say, is Linda Grinage, 39. She is charged with air piracy, an offense that carries a minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. After receiving an...
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