Symbionese

In February a paramilitary group called the Symbionese Liberation Army SLA kidnapped newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

It seems the authorities had finally caught up with the Symbionese Liberation Army called the SLA a group of leftist radicals mostly known for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

Linnie Frank Bailey: Thick Smoke at the Forum Linnie Frank Bailey 2011

On the night of Feb. 4, 1974, she and her fiancé, Steven Weed, were at her Berkeley apartment when three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army broke in, beat up Weed, and abducted Hearst.

Five People Born on February 20 | myFiveBest 2010

Heiress to the William Randolph Hearst newspaper empire, Patty Hearst is best known for her kidnapping in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army – a group of leftist radicals – who convinced her to join in with their robberies and bank extortions.

Five People Born on February 20 | myFiveBest 2010

The Symbionese Liberation Army extorted from her father $2,000,000 in a food giveaway to the poor and allegedly forced her to join in at least two robberies, of a San Francisco bank and a Los Angeles store.

Five People Born on February 20 | myFiveBest 2010

Taking what were sensational police and media stories of domestic terrorism and kidnapping--the Baader-Meinhof Gang in the Republic of Germany and the Symbionese Liberation Army with it's famous hostage-turned-conspirator Patty Hearst in the U.S.--and re-presenting their photographed remains in oil (Richter) and silkscreen on aluminum (Noland), the enflamed iconography and rhetoric of the 1960s-70s Left generation seems appropriately eulogized and put to rest.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

The Weather Underground was a marginal group, albeit less wacky and far more intellectual than the Symbionese Liberation Organization.

Matthew Yglesias » A Weather Underground Veteran Looks Back 2009

The Weather Underground, Symbionese Liberation Army and many others actually believed that violence could promote domestic political change.

Think Progress » Tea Party’s ‘Don’t Tread on Me’ flag to fly over Connecticut’s State Capitol. (UPDATED) 2010

Taking what were sensational police and media stories of domestic terrorism and kidnapping--the Baader-Meinhof Gang in the Republic of Germany and the Symbionese Liberation Army with it's famous hostage-turned-conspirator Patty Hearst in the U.S.--and re-presenting their photographed remains in oil (Richter) and silkscreen on aluminum (Noland), the enflamed iconography and rhetoric of the 1960s-70s Left generation seems appropriately eulogized and put to rest.

G. Roger Denson: You Say You Want a Revolution. Well You Know, Art Can Cure You of That G. Roger Denson 2011

The Symbionese Liberation Army probably never had more than 11 or 12 members, six of whom — including the leader, Donald DeFreeze — were killed in a police shootout and house fire in Los Angeles on May 17, 1974.

Five People Born on February 20 | myFiveBest 2010