Editing Symbionese Liberation Army (section)

==== Return to the Bay Area ====
[[Emily Harris|Emily]] and [[William Harris (Symbionese Liberation Army)|William Harris]], a married couple who were founding members, remained at large as fugitives with Hearst. Claiming to lead the SLA, they later picked up a few more members and committed more crimes, including the 1975 armed robbery of a bank in [[Carmichael, California]], in which a customer was killed. 

Most of the small group were apprehended in 1975 and brought to trial; most accepted plea deals and served several years in prison.

Initially the Harrises and Hearst stayed in the Bay area.<ref name="Guerrilla 2004"/> By early the next year, Bill and Emily Harris were leaders. They had taken refuge with Hearst for a period on the East Coast, where they were aided by former radical [[Wendy Yoshimura]] from San Francisco. 

After the four returned to the Bay area, the SLA members recruited activists and siblings Steve and Kathleen Soliah, Kathleen's boyfriend [[James Kilgore]], and Michael Bortin. Except for Yoshimura, who was Japanese American and born at the [[internment camp]] where her parents were held during World War II, all the new members were white.