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for the return of Patty Hearst. Atwood assumed the voice of a black woman and said, "The dream - and indeed it is a dream - that the enemy corporate state will willingly give the stolen riches of the earth back to the people and that this will be accomplished through compromising talk and empty words
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on May 17, 1974, in a shootout with police that was broadcast live on television. Atwood died of burns and smoke inhalation when the SLA's safehouse caught fire during the gun battle and burned to the ground. It was Atwood's death that prompted Kathleen Soliah to hold a memorial service for her and
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Atwood (speaking as "Gelina") was often the voice of the SLA, in the form of tape-recorded press releases. In Patty Hearst's account of her time with the SLA, she writes that Gelina would spend hours, and sometimes days, perfecting communiques. SLA members held an anti-bourgeois ideology of popular
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official, DeAngelis was active in many student leadership groups and was captain of the cheerleading squad. She starred in many school musicals and quietly tutored and befriended classmates others ignored. She was voted Most School Spirit by her peers while attending
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were given to bemoaning their white skin and wishing they were black. According to Hearst's testimony, SLA members also envied persons like their black leader Field Marshal Cinque (pronounced
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Atwood used the name Anne Lindberg when she visited inmate James Harold ("Doc") Holiday on January 10, 1974. This encounter alerted Holiday to the capture of
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and Angela got Kathy a job waiting tables. They quit the job together when the manager told them to wear revealing outfits to build up the lunch crowd.
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Hearst's insistence that she was forced by the SLA to make a series of self-incriminating statements was supported by Dr. Margaret Thaler-Singer, a
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the other deceased members of the SLA; Soliah and a few others became part of the "second team", giving the SLA life for about two more years.
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rule partly based on the idea that the most oppressed members of society, often blacks, must be the ones to lead a revolution against
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Atwood was assigned the task of surveillance in the potential kidnapping of John E. Countryman, former chairman of the board of
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Angela and Gary Atwood separated in June 1973. She moved in with the Harrises in early December 1973. She then joined the
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and robbed banks. She was killed, along with five other SLA members, in a nationally televised shootout with the
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Atwood, along with five other founding members of the SLA, including Donald DeFreeze, was killed in
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Atwood was eulogized by the Rev. Joseph Citro, a 25-year-old priest, at her funeral mass in
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apartment by Atwood, Donald DeFreeze, and William Harris, on the night of February 4, 1974.
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on May 26, 1974. They grew up blocks from each other and knew each other through the local
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Atwood's voice is heard on a taped message of March 9, 1974, used in negotiations with
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group in town. She married Atwood while still an undergraduate, and they befriended
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
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as the SLA members Hearst developed the "most affectionate bonds" with.
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Prosecution witness Dr. Joel Fort identified Atwood, Perry, and
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People killed by law enforcement officers in the United States
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of the whole thing", and likened her to the woman depicted by
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Burials at Holy Sepulchre Cemetery (Totowa, New Jersey)
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North Haledon, New Jersey
Los Angeles
Symbionese Liberation Army
Symbionese Liberation Army
far-left
urban guerrilla
Patricia Hearst
Los Angeles Police Department
New Jersey
North Haledon
Paterson
Teamsters
Manchester Regional High School
Indiana University Bloomington
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Jane Pauley
Kevin Kline
guerrilla theatre
William Harris
Emily
Indianapolis
San Francisco
Kathleen Soliah
Henrik Ibsen
Hedda Gabler
Symbionese Liberation Army
hippie
Indian silk
batik

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