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William Harris (General Teko), Emily Harris's husband and self-proclaimed leader of the SLA following DeFreeze's death, was convicted and imprisoned for the Hearst kidnapping and California bank murder. He was paroled in September 2006.
Emily Harris (born February 11, 1947, as Emily Montague Schwartz) was, along with her husband William Harris (b. 1945), a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), an American left-wing terrorist group involved in murder, kidnapping, and bank robberies.
Emily Harris went to a Berkeley rally to commemorate the deaths of Angela Atwood, Soltysik, DeFreeze, and other founding members of the SLA who had died in Los Angeles during the police siege. Harris recognized Atwood's acquaintance Kathy Soliah among the radicals whom she had known from civil rights groups.
Patricia Hearst's transformation into a fervent member of the SLA was part of a strange saga at the nexus of leftist militancy and American aristocracy, saturation media coverage and youth revolt.
Harris does not have an attorney listed in his civil case and could not be reached for comment. William Morris covers courts for the Des Moines Register. He can be contacted at wrmorris2 ...
SLA members held an anti-bourgeois ideology of popular rule partly based on the idea that the most oppressed members of society, often blacks, must be the ones to lead a revolution against The Establishment. Patty Hearst testified that Atwood, William Harris, and Nancy Ling Perry were given to bemoaning their white skin and wishing they were black.
Hanlon represented Sara Jane Olson (Kathy Soliah), Emily Harris and William Harris, three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), for the 1975 murder of a Sacramento woman during a bank robbery in which they were joined by Patty Hearst. [1]
William Harris (colonist) (1757–1812), figure in the American Revolution; William Harris, 2nd Baron Harris (1782–1845), British soldier and peer; William Harris, American Civil War colonel, son of Ira Harris; William W. Harris (Medal of Honor) (1850–1878), Medal of Honor recipient for action in the Indian Wars