The Harrises and Patty Hearst watch the shootout on TV from their motel room near Disneyland. S.L.A. members Russ Little and Joe Remiro listen to the shootout on a distant TV from their prison cell.
Hearst, who went by "Patty," was kidnapped from her Benvenue Avenue apartment ... President Jimmy Carter granted Hearst clemency in 1979, almost two years into Hearst's seven-year prison term.
With this hyperbolic declaration by “General Field Marshall” Cinque M’tume (the nom-de-plume of a Black prison escapee), the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) introduced itself to the American people ...