okay, of 1974, when we finally come to that decision. january 10th, 1974, literally changed my whole life. and all of my plans. joe and russ were driving in their van back to the safe house. they were running errands, picking up guns that had been altered. they went to a printing unit and picked up a stack of drawings of the seven-headed cobra. the leaflets were propaganda presenting what the program of the sla was, including recruiting comrades. i don t think they noticed the cop. all of a sudden he pulls them over out of the blue. check the car for remiro, r-e-m-i-r-o, joseph. instead of coming back to the driver s side, he goes to the
donald defreeze goes to the only place he knows that he s likely to get a warm welcome, and that s berkeley. he hooks up on the outside with some of the students who had been visiting him on the inside, and that includes joe remiro, willie wolfe, russ little, and in their social circle are nancy ling perry and ms. moon soltysik. mizmoon and nancy wind up moving in with donald defreeze and start coming up with these ideas about revolutionary change. the three of them become the nucleus of the symbionese liberation army. the symbionese liberation army committed a horrendous crime before kidnapping patty hearst. that incident gets lost when we talk about the patty hearst kidnapping. during the fall of 1973,
willie wolff was an upper middle class kid, a physician s son from new milford, connecticut, who went to berkeley to try to be an archaeologist. but in short order he became radicalized and he became part of this group that spent its time going to vacaville prison, and he became friends with donald defreeze, joe remiro, and russ little. defreeze had a plan. back then all the jobs in the prison were done by a convict. defreeze knew enough from talking to the prisoners that manning the boilers is a job outside the fence. the first time they sent him to his job, he stayed there for a couple hours and he was gone. i m not certain who picked him up. i always thought it was willie. when defreeze escaped, that was the beginning of the sla.
walking from the school board building to his car. they waited for the end of a school board meeting. and as he walked into the parking lot, they shot marcus foster dead at point-blank range. the theory was that defreeze, nancy ling perry and mizmoon soltysik were the shooters and joe remiro and russ little were the lookouts. remiro and little had guns with them but they were not involved in the shooting. in a newspaper, the sla took credit for foster s murder. it was the first time anyone had ever heard of the group. they were proud of what they had done and they put out a press release or a statement saying they had done this. the sla was not indiscriminately issuing death warrants for foster, blackburn or anyone else. such an attack was the only
in things. we didn t really know anybody to hook up with until i met joe remiro. joe invited me to a community meeting. it was at this meeting that i met another future comrade, russ little. we started planning for the future. we were kind of on a path to where this stuff is going to necessarily escalate. we re going to catch people s attention because we re going to do something audacious. alright, i brought in