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== Known members == === Founding members === * [[Donald DeFreeze]] (''General Field Marshal Cinque Mtume''), an escaped prisoner and major spokesman of the SLA, committed suicide during a police shootout in Los Angeles on May 17, 1974 * [[Patricia Soltysik]], ''alias'' Mizmoon Soltysik (''Zoya''), major theorist with Perry, killed in LAPD shootout on May 17, 1974 * [[Nancy Ling Perry]] (''Fahizah''), major theorist with Soltysik, killed in LAPD shootout on May 17, 1974. These three were responsible for the assassination of Marcus Foster and wounding of his deputy. * [[Thero Wheeler]] (''Bayo''), left the SLA after rejecting their turn to armed conflict and receiving death threats from DeFreeze. * [[Mary Alice Siem]], Wheeler's girlfriend, left the SLA after receiving death threats from DeFreeze. * Russell Little (SLA pseudonym ''Osceola'' or ''Osi''), arrested and convicted for the shooting of Marcus Foster. Little was in custody during the time when Patty Hearst was with the SLA. Little was sentenced to life in prison in April 1975. He appealed, winning a new trial in 1981 at which he was acquitted of the Foster murder. He now lives in Hawaii.<ref name="pbs.org"/> * [[Joe Remiro|Joseph Remiro]] (''Bo''), arrested with Russell Little and convicted of Foster's fatal shooting. The SLA tried to gain freedom for Little and Remiro after their kidnapping of Hearst. Remiro was sentenced to life in prison in April 1975. He is serving the sentence at [[Pelican Bay State Prison]], [[Crescent City, California]]. With repeated rejections of requests for parole, he is the only member of the SLA still in prison. * [[Willie Wolfe|William (Willie) Wolfe]] (''Kahjoh''), killed in LAPD shootout on May 17, 1974. * [[Angela Atwood]] (''General Gelina''), killed in LAPD shootout on May 17, 1974. * [[Camilla Hall]] (''Gabi''), Soltysik's lover, killed in LAPD shootout on May 17, 1974. * [[Emily Harris]] (''Yolanda''), was convicted of the Hearst kidnapping and bank robbery murder. She was paroled in February 2007. * William Harris (''General Teko''), Emily Harris's husband and self-proclaimed leader of the SLA following DeFreeze's death, was convicted and imprisoned for the Hearst kidnapping and California bank murder. He was paroled in September 2006. The Harrises divorced. === Later members (after the Hearst kidnapping) === * [[Patty Hearst]] (''Tania''), kidnapped and became a member of SLA. Arrested in 1975 and imprisoned for robbery, released in 1979, pardoned in 2001. * [[Sara Jane Olson|Kathleen Ann Soliah]] (alias Sara Jane Olson), a friend of Atwood. Soliah became more involved after her friend Atwood's death in the LAPD 1974 shootout. After being arrested in 1999 following decades as a fugitive, she pleaded guilty of charges related to her role in placing explosives intended for bombing the LAPD, and the California bank robbery and murder. She served seven years of a 14-year sentence before gaining parole in 2009. * [[James Kilgore|Jim (James) Kilgore]], Kathleen Soliah's boyfriend during the SLA period. As a fugitive, he escaped to South Africa, where he made a new life for years. He is now a research scholar at the Center for African Studies at the University of Illinois.<ref name=Tarm>{{cite news|last1=Tarm|first1=Michael|title=U of Illinois: Officials broke email rules to hide content|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/u-of-i-administrators-broke-e-mail-rules-to-hide-messages/2015/08/07/5affca46-3d3e-11e5-a312-1a6452ac77d2_story.html|access-date=10 August 2015|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=August 7, 2015}}{{dead link|date=June 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> * Steven Soliah, brother to Kathleen Soliah. * Michael Bortin, married to Josephine Soliah, sister to Kathleen Soliah. * [[Wendy Yoshimura]], former member with her friend Willie Brandt of the [[Wendy Yoshimura#Revolutionary Army|Revolutionary Army]], a violent activist group. She was convicted and imprisoned for the California bank robbery and murder with the SLA, and was later paroled. === Associates and sympathizers === * Josephine Soliah, Kathleen Soliah's sister * Bonnie Jean Wilder, Seanna, Sally (a friend of Remiro's), and Bridget. Hearst identifies each of them in her book ''[[Every Secret Thing (Hearst book)#Media and other activities|Every Secret Thing]]'' (1982) as potential members of the SLA. * Micki and [[Jack Scott (sports activist)|Jack Scott]], a writer and sports activist. While not an SLA member, he aided them as fugitives in the hope of writing a book with them about the Hearst kidnapping and other activities. Jack Scott participated in transporting the Harrises and Hearst, then fugitive SLA members, to different parts of the US, including his farmhouse in Pennsylvania. He volunteered to shelter them in hopes of writing a book on them with their cooperation. Scott, sports editor for the radical magazine ''[[Ramparts (magazine)|Ramparts]],'' died in 2000.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2000/feb/11/guardianobituaries|title=Jack Scott|first=Christopher|last=Reed|date=11 February 2000|access-date=3 January 2019|website=Theguardian.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-feb-08-me-62147-story.html|title=Jack Scott, Friend to SLA, Dies|first=Ann W.|last=O'Neill|date=8 February 2000|access-date=3 January 2019|website=Articles.latimes.com}}</ref>
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