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	June 1999: Olson brother-in-law tells how he and others, lost faith in America (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Michael Bortin, one of five members of the Symbionese Liberation Army arrested this week in connection with a 1975 California bank robbery that left a woman dead, said in a 1999 Star Tribune interview that he and others "lost our faith in the country" in the early 1970s.
		Bortin is married to the younger sister of Sara Jane Olson, the St. Paul woman who pleaded guilty and was to be sentenced today in a Los Angeles court for aiding an attempt to blow up police cars with pipe bombs.
		Bortin said the Sara Jane Olson who was portrayed as such a good citizen in St. Paul should not be contrasted to the young radical he knew as Kathleen Soliah in California.
	www.startribune.com /stories/1395/1107994.html (607 words)

	Michael Bortin Becomes Third S.L.A. Defendant to Make Bail (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Michael Bortin has become the third former Symbionese Liberation Army member to be bailed out of jail.
		Bortin is one of four former S.L.A. members on trial for the 1975 murder of 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl at the Carmichael branch of Crocker National Bank..
		Bortin is now 53 years old, and has worked for the past dozen years as a licensed contractor in Portland, Oregon.
	www.news10.net /storyfull.asp?id=1099 (262 words)

	Michael J. Totten (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Mike Bortin I remembered then, and whom I recall now as he appeared when we were teenagers, was the furthest thing from a terrorist, to say nothing of claiming credentials as a revolutionary.
		Just as Bortin spoke for the mediocre majority in high school when he jeered at my Communism, so he spoke for the mediocre majority in college when he claimed the “revolution” would be served by terrorism.
		Bortin and Co. have now been sentenced to prison terms for their involvement in the murder of Myrna Opsahl.
	michaeltotten.blogspot.com /2003_02_16_michaeltotten_archive.html (4670 words)

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		He became associated with the group when Kathleen Soliah (Sara Jane Olson) joined it in 1974.
		In 2002, Bortin pled guilty to second-degree murder for killing Myrna Opsahl during a 1975 robbery of the Crocker Bank in
		He was sentenced to six years in prison.
	www.discoverthenetwork.org /individualProfile.asp?indid=1282 (53 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bortin is among five people charged by California authorities on Wednesday in the shooting death of a bystander during a bank robbery by SLA members in Carmichael, Calif.
		Bortin has never hidden the fact that he was a supporter of the SLA in the 1970s.
		Bortin operates a shop in southeast Portland called "Zen Hardwood Floors" where he finishes hardwood floors and crafts ornate front doors, one of which adorns the house across the street from his home.
	www.katu.com /printstory.asp?ID=38992 (497 words)

	Judge Agrees to Reduce Bail for Michael Bortin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Michael Bortin was back in court on Thursday, asking for a reduction in his bail.
		Bortin is one of four former Symbionese Liberation Army members on trail for the 1975 murder of a Carmichael woman.
		Defense lawyers claimed Bortin doesn't have the financial means of his co-defendants, and asked Judge Thomas Cecil to cut the bail amount in half.
	www.news10.net /storyfull.asp?id=1018 (314 words)

	Bortin insists on his innocence in SLA killing
		Michael Bortin sits on a well-worn gray sofa in his Southeast Portland living room.
		Bortin, a contractor and owner of Zen Hardwood Floors, is one of five accused of killing Opsahl, a 42-year-old mother of four who was in the bank that day to deposit the collection plate money from her church.
		Bortin thinks that the charges are political and that prosecutors in Los Angeles are pushing their counterparts in Sacramento to tie a ribbon on the case and the long-unfinished business of the SLA, in part because of pressure from Opsahl's family.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/649373/posts (1439 words)

	CTV.ca - Four former SLA members plead guilty to murder- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		The four are William Harris; his ex-wife, Emily Montague; Michael Bortin; and Sara Jane Olson, who is already serving 14 years behind bars for a 1975 attempt to blow up two Los Angeles police cars.
		During the robbery, Bortin said in court Thursday, he held a handgun that he "waved a little bit" and was the one who announced it was a robbery.
		Bortin said the actions of the revolutionary band did "horrible damage" to people who peacefully protested social conditions.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1036719133063_29?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (734 words)

	Salon News \| Mercy for a terrorist? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Soliah's brother-in-law, Michael Bortin, was a Berkeley radical and with his wife, Josephine (Soliah's sister), was also an SLA member.
		Recently, Bortin attempted to explain to the press the relationship between the radical gangster Soliah and the St. Paul housewife "Sara Jane Olson," who was such an upstanding member of the progressive community: "There's not this dichotomy between what Kathy was and what she is now.
		Bortin claimed that it was the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King Jr., the presidency of Richard Nixon and the war in Vietnam that changed their attitudes to make them SLA members.
	www.salon.com /news/col/horo/1999/08/02/soliah (744 words)

	SLA Trial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Some editors considered Judge Thomas Cecil's rulings on three dicey issues raised in a pre-trial defense motion by Michael Bortin to be "just inside baseball," and they passed on it.
		In tentative rulings Cecil indicated that whatever recordings jailers in Oregon and California may have made of Bortin’s social out-going calls could be shared with investigators and prosecutors for evidentiary purposes.
		Bortin was arrested in Multinomah County, Ore. Jan.
	slatrial.blogspot.com /2002_08_11_slatrial_archive.html (847 words)

	sla - sacbee.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Former Symbionese Liberation Army sympathizer Michael Bortin, who is charged in the fatal shooting of a Carmichael homemaker during a bank robbery 27 years ago, was released from jail Friday evening after posting $500,000 bail.
		Former Symbionese Liberation Army supporter Michael Bortin won his fight Thursday to have his $1 million bail cut in half, a move that will allow him to be released from the Sacramento County jail by next week, his attorneys said.
		SACRAMENTO -- Michael Bortin, accused as a Symbionese Liberation Army associate in the April 1975 Carmichael bank robbery that killed Myrna Opsahl, arrived in Sacramento on Tuesday from Portland, Ore., and was booked into the county jail.
	www.sacbee.com /content/news/projects/sla (2204 words)

	SLA's judgment day / Four members of radical '70s group plead guilty in deadly bank robbery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bortin said he was devastated and very ashamed about taking part in the robbery and murder.
		Bortin told the Chronicle in January 2001, "Maybe that book is just full of s--." Additionally, even federal authorities who prosecuted SLA associate Steven Soliah in 1976 in connection with the Carmichael robbery had doubts about Hearst's tale and about her value as a witness.
		Although Emily Montague, William Harris and Michael Bortin could be free in as little as three years, defense attorney Stuart Hanlon said the decision will rest with the prisons where they serve their time.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/11/08/MN211888.DTL (2333 words)

	symbionese liberation army - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		On 21 April 1975, the remaining members of the SLA robbed the Crocker National Bank in Carmichael, California and killed Myrna Opsahl, a bank customer, in the process.
		Much later, Patty Hearst, after being granted immunity from prosecution for this crime, stated that Emily Harris, Kathleen Soliah, Michael Bortin, and James Kilgore actually committed the robbery, while she and Wendy Yoshimura were getaway drivers and William Harris and Steven Soliah acted as lookouts.
		On 16 January 2002, first-degree murder charges for the killing of Myrna Opsahl were filed against Kathleen Soliah, the Harrises, Bortin, and Kilgore.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Symbionese-Liberation-Army (2895 words)

	eastbayexpress.com \| Film \| But What About Patty? \| 2004-11-24 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		While not initially involved, he hopped on board the SLA disaster train when the fugitive members fled to Berkeley, after the majority of the group was killed in a Waco-style shootout and fire-bombing.
		Bortin took the SLA into his home and his heart and, though he doesn't admit it in the film, participated in at least one of their violent bank robberies.
		Stone conducted the interviews for Guerrilla in 2001; it wasn't until 2003 that Bortin, along with three other former SLA members, pleaded guilty to the murder of Myrna Opsahl, a woman who died during the robbery at Carmichael Crocker National Bank.
	www.eastbayexpress.com /issues/2004-11-24/movies2.html (838 words)

	The SLA and the Child Experts
		The SLA bunch came of age in that period between the 50's and the 70's, when children were first intoxicated with their own importance.
		Bortin, Harris, Soliah, Montague, and their colleague in mayhem, James Kilgore, were nothing more than immature, overgrown teenagers who didn't have enough to do.
		What the child "experts" cannot seem to get through their heads is that the Harrises, Soliahs, Bortins, and van Hootens are not, and were not, mentally ill. They were not abused or traumatized kids from bad homes, either; they were just smart hooligans.
	www.beverlye.com /~eakman/200304171652.html (1866 words)

	27 YEARS LATER, 4 SLA FIGURES ARRESTED / A Sacramento woman was shot to death in a 1975 bank robbery linked to the ...
		Bortin, a contractor, awoke with his wife to find his house in Portland surrounded by police.
		According to prosecutors and grand jury testimony, William Harris, Emily Harris, Michael Bortin, James Kilgore, Sara Jane Olson, Patricia Hearst, Wendy Yoshimura and Stephen Soliah participated in the April 21, 1975, Carmichael bank robbery that left 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl dead.
		Michael Bortin, 53, settled in Portland, Ore., with his wife, Josephine Soliah, (the sister of Olson and Steven Soliah) and their children.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2002/01/17/MN42850.DTL (1957 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State/The West -- Four '70s radicals get prison for deadly California bank robbery
		SACRAMENTO – After making apologies to the family of a woman they killed during a bungled bank robbery almost 28 years ago, four aging former radicals were ordered to spend much of the next decade in prison.
		The sentencing of Emily Montague, now 55; her ex-husband, Michael Harris, 58; Michael Bortin, 54; and Sarah Jane Olson, 55, closed another chapter in the history of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the violent band of would-be revolutionaries most famous for the 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst.
		Bortin, a flooring contractor, is married to Olson's sister and has four children.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/state/20030215-0020-ca-slamurder.html (784 words)

	KCRA.com - News - Third SLA Murder Suspect Bailed Out
		Michael Bortin is facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of 42-year-old Myrna Opsahl.
		At 5:52 p.m., Bortin walked out of the Sacramento County Jail, flanked by his wife and attorney.
		Bortin had to post a $1 million property bond for his $500,000 to be released.
	www.thekcrachannel.com /news/1307334/detail.html (210 words)

	The National Museum of Photography, Film & Television - Film Details (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Bortin is currently doing time for a 1974 murder and it was to secure Little's release from jail that Hearst was kidnapped.
		As Mike Bortin says in the film, a lot of the people who got involved in the demonstrations were at the top colleges.
		Stone: “I think Michael Moore has opened the door to a lot of people who wouldn't normally watch a documentary at the cinema.
	www.nmpft.org.uk /film/filmdetail.asp?ida=5526 (2957 words)

	NEWS: Michael Bortin is on his way to California (1/23/02) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		NEWS: Michael Bortin is on his way to California (1/23/02)
		Michael Bortin is on his way to California
		Michael Bortin appeared in a Portland, Oregon courtroom where he told the judge, "i just want to get down there as soon as possible." Bortin signed papers to waive his extradition.
	www.kovr13.com /01jan02/vo012302b.htm (175 words)

	What Happened Inside the Bank?
		Michael Bortin said he held the door open for three women customers, one of whom was killed.
		Once we were home Kathy explained that at the very start of the holdup Emily had shot a woman customer....In fact, she said, Mike had held the door open for that woman and her two companions, who preceded them into the bank.
		Kathleen Soliah said Michael Bortin stood on the teller’s counter holding a pistol.
	www.myrnaopsahl.com /ev-080.htm (1649 words)

	Carraig Daire Weblog Home
		Michael Bortin, William Harris, Kathleen Soliah(who now calls herself Sara Jane Olsen), and Emily Montague(formerly William Harris' wife).
		They were as much responsible for that bank robbery/murder as Emily Montague, Bill Harris, Michael Bortin and Kathleen Soliah.
		They could still be held accountable as accomplices, but the two women were offered a deal so that the most culpable criminals could be brought to justice.
	www.carraigdaire.com /weblog/blog.php?article=171 (1194 words)

	CBS News \| Symbionese Saga Comes To An End \| November 8, 2002 17:29:46
		Patty Hearst, in 1974, holding a machine gun and standing in front of a Symbionese Liberation Army flag, while a captive of the SLA, for which she robbed a bank, an act later blamed on brainwashing.
		They pleaded guilty to murder Thursday in the shotgun slaying of a bank customer during a 1975 holdup, virtually ending one of the most notorious and violent sagas of radical 1970s politics.
		After the court hearing, Michael Mason, the FBI's Sacramento-based special agent-in-charge, had said the case would remain active until Kilgore was captured, promising, "We will not rest until he, too, is brought to the bar of justice."
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/10/31/national/main316566.shtml (1577 words)

	Here Be Monsters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The documentary Guerrila: The Taking of Patty Hearst includes extensive interview footage with Michael Bortin, who on the evidence of this movie is a serious front-runner candidate for the title Most Worthless Human Being in the History of Recorded Time.
		The film itself, assembled from interviews and old news footage by Robert Stone (a British documentarian, not the author of Dog Soldiers and A Flag for Sunrise), is a compellingly lucid retelling of the SLA story with a strong sense of the special craziness of the period.
		Bortin was a late joiner of the SLA who took Hearst and Bill and Emily Harris in after the firefight with the L.A. cops that wiped out the rest of their tiny play group.
	thephilfile.blogspot.com /2004_11_01_thephilfile_archive.html (6567 words)

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		Former SLA members Emily Harris, her ex-husband Bill Harris, and Michael Bortin were arrested Wednesday morning.
		According to Olson’s attorney, Shawn Chapman, Sacramento authorities were initially planning to delay Olson’s arrest until Friday, when she will be sentenced in a botched 1975 plot to blow up two police cars in Los Angeles.
		A third suspect, Mike Bortin, was arrested at his home in Portland, Oregon.
	www.laweekly.com /ink/printme.php?eid=31668 (448 words)

	What Happened After the Robbery?
		In fact, she said, Mike had held the door open for that woman and her two companions, who preceded them into the bank.
		"Michael Bortin's confession to C.D. and S.C. confirm that Emily Harris shot Myrna Opsahl.
		Emily accompanied Bortin and Kilgore to ditch the getaway car and then to T Street, where they could count the money taken from the bank.
	www.myrnaopsahl.com /ev-100.htm (694 words)

	Dr. Frank's What's-it: History Rhymes
		Stephen Schwartz, perhaps best known today as an expert on Wahhabism, was, like many of today's neo-cons, a red diaper baby, and a communist and New Left activist in his youth.
		He also, it turns out, went to Lowell with the recently-convicted SLA terrorist Michael Bortin.
		His reflections on his old high school pal, and the kind of "activism" in which he and his ilk indulged, make for interesting reading.
	www.doktorfrank.com /archives/001608.html (398 words)

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