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,
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
ling perry and mizmoon soltysik. and she had a lover named camilla hall, and she also joined the group. when the police start going through the concord house, they start to find the sla s list. on one of the lists is possible kidnap victims. and there is a young college student named patricia hearst because they had read her engagement announcement in the san francisco examiner. the police never warned anyone on that list. during the months and months before we were ever introduced to the members of the sla, they had been acquiring intelligence on potential local targets, including maybe a couple news articles announcing patricia s betrothal to steven weed.
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
a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! two men, joseph remiro and russell little, were arrested for foster s murder. they refused to talk about their membership in the symbionese liberation army. joe and russ were arrested a few blocks away from the safe house. there were so many cops in the area trying to figure out what was going on. defreeze, nancy and mizmoon had to abandon the safe house. they had things that were stored in this house and it had been a safe house i m not even sure for how long, but a long time. there were boxes and boxes of stuff. after they soaked the house in 20 gallons of gasoline, they attempted to torch the house. and unfortunately someone