articles didn t say where she lived, but they gave enough information to easily find it out. the decision to kidnap patricia hearst was the direct result of joe and russ arrest. we had to do it as a matter of principle. possibly work toward an exchange. it also was the result of our general politics and who we targeted in our minds as being enemies of the people. we had already determined that hearst was a particular easy target and that the propaganda that could be generated from it was perfect. bill and emily and angela came out of the theater program at indiana university. and this was a time when theater had a very political component. it was known as guerrilla theater. and they believed in using
passenger side and tells joe to get out of the van. they re both armed. and they have illegal guns and some leaflets that connect them to something much more serious. they ended up in a shootout at close quarters that had both of them so freaked out that they missed each other. 11-99. van is stopping. we have one suspect and we have the car. the leaflets, however, were a big, big problem. that connects them to the foster assassination. joe was arrested and he had a ppk that was one of the murder
lowered the garage door, all the windows were closed because it was wintertime. but when they closed the garage door, it cut off the oxygen to the fire and it immediately went out and left everything in perfect condition almost for the feds and the police to go through. the house in which they lived in a quiet san francisco suburb, police found weapons, revolutionary literature and material linking them to the sla. my original decision was to be with some people federated with the sla. okay? there s a distinction in my mind. and ten days later, joe and russ are arrested and that throws everything out the window. the circumstances had made our choice for us, we were going underground immediately. at this point the sla consisted of bill harris, emily harris and angela atwood, donald defreeze, willie wolfe, nangy
herself are going about their everyday business in berkeley, the sla is starting to form in a very different place, in a prison. one of the key aspects of the political environment in the bay area was the prison movement. for a lot of radicals in the 70s, prison symbolized everything that was wrong with american society. its racism. its violence. its oppression of poor people. and the radicals saw the prisons as a place where they could foment revolutionary change. at that time joe and russ were doing work inside the california prison system. it s inherently political if the process of the system hammers people of color more than white people. this is the beginning of things like mass incarceration. this is how we deal with poverty. we lock it up.
media empire that we viewed as an arm of propaganda for the united states government. she was more of an innocent if there ever was one, which we re trying to explain is the symbolic connection to joe and russ. she s innocent, they re innocent. we re going to treat her like you re supposed to treat them. it didn t take us long to do the surveillance. she was in an ideal location. there was no security. her front door was right there. handy dandy. and her apartment was blocked from the street, so there wasn t going to be a lot of easy sidelines for people to see what was going on or even hear. i think it was a weeknight that we chose. everybody in the group was involved in the operation. willie s driving. mizmoon is the passenger in the vw. emily s car is parked three spaces down the street. camilla was driving the getaway