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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.
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.
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.
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.
Liberal netizens tore into Sen. Deb Fischer's (R-Neb.) elderly husband Bruce for appearing to turn down Vice President Kamala Harris' handshake last week, but viral footage that swirled online ...
On April 21, 1975, SLA members robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California. In the process they killed Myrna Opsahl, a mother of four depositing money for her church. [13] [8] Patty Hearst, who had acted as getaway driver during the crime, later provided the information that led police to implicate the SLA in the robbery and ...
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 ...