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In the News (Fri 11 Dec 09)

  
  Patty Hearst Captured!
Kathleen Soliah attracted the FBI's attention when she visited Brandt in the Soledad prison he had been sentenced to.
They trialed Steven Soliah the next morning as he went to the apartment where Bill and Emily Harris were staying.
Steven Soliah, showing a callous disregard for his own freedom, actually went back to the Harrises apartment after heard about the arrests and was promptly arrested himself.
www.super70s.com /Super70s/News/1975/September/18-Hearst_Captured.asp   (936 words)

  
  Steven Soliah
Steven Soliah was a not a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Patricia Hearst stated that Steven Soliah was a getaway car driver.
On the other hand, one of the bills stolen from the bank was found in the refrigerator of the apartment he shared with Patty Hearst, and his fingerprint was found on the license plate one of the stolen getaway cars.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/st/Steven_Soliah.html   (363 words)

  
 SECTION ON KATHLEEN SOLIAH
Soliah had worked with Angela Atwood at Great Electric Underground restaurant, a businessman’s luncheon retreat in the basement of the world headquarters of the Bank of America in San Francisco.
Soliah eventually would involve her sister Josephine and her brother Steven with the couple associated with her friend Angela.
Soliah’s New Dawn Collective was setting up a network with the New World Liberation Front and the SLA return was being arranged.
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 Steven Soliah: ZoomInfo Business People Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The defense used Soliah's testimony and that of a masseuse to indicate that Soliah was in her apartment on Masonic Street in San Francisco at that crucial hour.
Soliah had testified he was in her home.
The "Acquittal" of Steven Soliah The SLA in Sacramento Soliah.com
www.zoominfo.com /directory/Soliah_Steven_16148404.htm   (423 words)

  
 Olson's stunning guilty plea halts trial on bomb charges Former Kathleen Soliah was SLA associate Patrick Hoge / SF ...
Olson's brother, Steven Soliah, was tried and acquitted in that case, which lay dormant for decades until Olson was arrested.
Olson's husband, Dr. Fred Peterson, her mother, Elsie Soliah, and her sometimes tearful daughter Sophie Peterson sat in the front row of the courtroom as the plea was entered.
A grand jury indicted Olson in 1976 under her birth name, Kathleen Soliah, on charges of attempting to murder officers in retaliation for the deaths of six SLA members who died in a shootout and fire in 1974.
www.mindfully.org /Reform/Olson-Guilty-Plea.htm   (1205 words)

  
 Authorities paint Olson as SLA mastermind / Police challenge image she presented
Olson's brother, Steven Soliah, a onetime football player at Humboldt State University, and sister, Josephine Soliah, were soon engulfed in the clandestine activities of the re-emerging SLA.
Steven Soliah was tried in federal court on charges of robbing the Carmichael bank where Opsahl was killed, but was acquitted in April 1976.
Josephine Soliah is implicated in court records, along with Hearst, as having planted a bomb under a police car, but no charges were ever filed.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/01/21/MN12318.DTL   (1015 words)

  
 Symbionese Liberation Army - dKosopedia
For the next two years she and other members, including Kathleen Soliah (now Sara Jane Olson) and James Kilgore, continued to hide out in the underground, until Patty/Tania's capture in 1975 brought the group to an end.
Hearst's sentence was commuted by Jimmy Carter in 1977 and she received a full pardon from Bill Clinton in 2001.
Soliah and Kilgore began new lives, and were outed as SLA members only in the late 1990s.
www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army   (453 words)

  
 Eastern District of California - Past United States Attorneys
Other noteworthy events during his term included the trial of Steven Soliah for the 1975 robbery of Crocker National Bank and the murder of Myrna Opsahl, and the trial of certain Pit River Indians for allegedly assaulting United States Marshal Arthur Van Court and several of his deputies in the incident at Four Corners.
Stevens' Chief Assistant, Paul Seave, was appointed by the Attorney General to serve as United States Attorney pending presidential appointment.
Before being asked by Stevens to come to Sacramento to be his Chief Assistant in 1993, Seave was an Assistant United States Attorney for the Central District of California from 1983 to 1987 and again from 1989 to 1993.
courthistory.tripod.com /usattorneys/index.html   (1284 words)

  
 Kilgore
Soliah eventually pleaded guilty to "aiding and abetting" the attempted bombing and recently admitted her role in the shotgun slaying of Myrna Lee Opsahl during an
While Kathleen Soliah has pleaded guilty to some of the L.A. charges and currently is serving an extended prison sentence for that as well as for her part in killing Mrs.
Opsahl, Soliah subsequently told the press she was not guilty and was pleading guilty only because, in the aftermath of 9/11, she could not get a fair trial.
presslord.com /kilgorebomb.htm   (2133 words)

  
 CNN.com - Olson sentenced to 20 years in bomb plot - January 18, 2002
Sara Jane Olson, whom prosecutors describe as a former member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, also pleaded not guilty on a separate first-degree murder charge relating to a 1975 California bank robbery in which a bystander was fatally shot.
Soliah is the brother of Olson, who went by the name of Kathleen Soliah at that time.
Hearst, Steven Soliah and Yoshimura were given immunity for testimony in grand jury proceedings years ago.
edition.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/18/olson.sla.arraignment   (641 words)

  
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Steven Soliah was dragged before a grand jury, as were Wendy Yoshimura and Patty Hearst.
Soliah, who has since changed her name to Sara Jane Olson, was indicted in 1976 in Los Angeles for the attempted car bombing of LAPD patrol cars.
Instead Steven Soliah, who Hearst reveals was her lover for a time, waited in a blue Mustang across the street from the bank.
www.newsreview.com /sacramento/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:10373   (4618 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Son of SLA victim
appeals for justice
But Soliah is not facing trial for her participation in the robbery that resulted in Opsahl's murder, and for which Soliah's brother -- fellow SLA member Steven Soliah -- was acquitted in 1976.
But Soliah, who has lived for the last 25 years as Sarah Jane Olson in St. Paul, Minn., became a fugitive when she went underground Before she was captured in 1999, she was living as a doctor's wife and the mother of three children.
Soliah's Los Angeles case is scheduled to proceed in September.
worldnetdaily.com /news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=22839   (1115 words)

  
 2004_04_26_Kilgore   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kilgore, who is originally from Oregon and the San Francisco Bay Area, participated in two SLA bank robberies and a SLA bombing campaign directed against police officers in the San Francisco Bay Area and Los Angeles, California.
Kilgore became a fugitive after the arrest of fellow SLA members Emily and William Harris, Steven Soliah, Wendy Yoshimura, and Patricia Hearst on September 18, 1975.
Kilgore's fingerprints were found on the explosive device and on bomb manuals found in the apartment of fellow bomb maker Kathleen Soliah, now known as Sara Jane Olsen.
www.usdoj.gov /usao/can/press/2004/2004_04_26_kilgore.html   (469 words)

  
 Justice delayed, boxed and sent to a warehouse
Sara Jane Olson, who gave up being Kathleen Soliah when she fled to Minnesota, married and raised her family, will add six years to the term she is serving for attempted bombing.
That came on the elevator upstairs to the courtroom, where Trygve Opsahl, Myrna's widower, realized he was sharing the ride with a fifth member of the holdup squad: Steven Soliah, Sara Jane Olson's brother.
Soliah had been acquitted of the robbery in 1976 after a witness said he had been with her.
www.post-gazette.com /columnists/20021109roddy3.asp   (757 words)

  
 Olson’s Prison Time May Hinge on Aiding Murder Case, Experts Say
Steven Soliah, Olson’s brother, was the only suspect tried for the robbery, and a federal jury acquitted him in 1976.
But it is what Olson does next that could have a significant impact on her own fate and the fates of her accused cohorts in the Carmichael case—and Olson may not have much choice, Uelman, a professor at the Santa Clara University School of Law, said.
Chapman attacked Hearst’s credibility, noting that federal prosecutors who tried and failed to convict Steven Soliah of the bank robbery wrote a memo saying Hearst was not credible.
www.metnews.com /articles/sara012202.htm   (1197 words)

  
 The Safehouses   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Kathleen Soliah’s fingerprints were found on the rental termination letter for the W Street apartment, and the letter was in Kathleen Soliah’s handwriting.
Kathleen Soliah’s fingerprints were found on the rental application, the rental contract (3/2/75), and the rental termination letter (4/28/75) for 2728 Capitol Avenue, Apartment #6, and the forms were all in her handwriting.
Eyewitnesses identified James Kilgore, William Harris, Steven Soliah, and Michael Bortin as living in apartment #4 at 914 T Street in Sacramento.
www.myrnaopsahl.com /ev-010.htm   (670 words)

  
 Sara Jane Olson, Four Former SLA Members Charged in Deadly Bank Heist... - DiscussAnything.com -
She faces 20 years to life in prison for the bombing attempt, which she said was to avenge the death of six colleagues in a 1974 shootout with police in Los Angeles.
Her brother, Steven Soliah, was acquitted in a 1976 federal trial for the Carmichael robbery.
Hearst, Steven Soliah and Wendy Yoshimura were granted immunity for their involvement in the robbery in exchange for their testimony before a 1991 grand jury, Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully said.
www.discussanything.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3851   (1550 words)

  
 So there is no Liberal media Bias? Try this: Five SLA members charged for 1975 robbery, killing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Olson, known as Kathleen Soliah at the time of the robbery, was expected to turn herself in to authorities in Los Angeles Wednesday afternoon.
In exchange, Hearst, who was waiting in a getaway car outside the bank, told authorities that Olson and her brother, Steven Soliah, took part in the holdup.
Steven Soliah was acquitted by a federal jury in 1976.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/610207/posts   (3652 words)

  
 Carraig Daire Weblog Home
The case went unpursued because of the difficulty of proving forensic ties with a shotgun murder.
Steven Soliah has been aquitted, so he cannot stand trial again.
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   (1246 words)

  
 TIME.com: WHICH PATTY TO BELIEVE? -- Oct. 6, 1975 -- Page 5
On the license plate of the repainted car, authorities found the fingerprints of Steven Soliah, 27, the "Charlie Adams" with whom she moved into her San Francisco apartment.
Soliah was arrested soon after Patty was caught and is now being held at the same jail on charges of harboring fugitives.
Speaking of Soliah, Patty told Trish Tobin in the taped conversation last week: "I lived with him." And she added, "I finally got to see him up in the jail.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,913517-5,00.html   (770 words)

  
 CBSNews.com: Print This Story
The charges against the former SLA guerrillas, who shot to fame in the early 1970s after kidnapping newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst, came after police arrested three of the suspects early on Wednesday: Emily Harris, her ex-husband Bill Harris and Michael Bortin.
Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully said first degree murder charges would also be filed against Kathleen Ann Soliah, who as Sara Jane Olson pleaded guilty in October to aiding and abetting a separate crime committed by the group, and James Kilgore, a former SLA member who remains at large.
Olson's brother Steven Soliah was tried in 1976 for the robbery and acquitted.
uttm.com /stories/2002/01/16/national/printable324584.shtml   (726 words)

  
 Only Hard Sell Revived 'Slam Dunk' SLA
Federal prosecutors decided not to let Hearst testify, apparently because she insisted that Steven Soliah had stayed behind in a getaway car outside the Crocker National Bank branch.
Soliah was acquitted and Hearst, in a sense, was vindicated.
Researching the Soliah bomb-planting case, Hunter and Latin looked at evidence in all the SLA cases, read Hearst's grand jury testimony, and became convinced that there was enough evidence to corroborate her account of the slaying in Carmichael.
www.rickross.com /reference/symbionese/symbionese36.html   (1828 words)

  
 Sacramento Union 4/9/76 FBi man testifies about Soliah prints   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
James K. Howell said a fingerprint on the back of the rear plate of a light blue Mustang was that of the left index finger of Soliah, accused of being a participant in the robbery of a Carmichael bank.
Rolling Stone magazine offered to post Soliah's bail when he was arrested for harboring Hearst but withdrew the offer and later paid him for his story about Hearst's life as a fugitive, a television station reported Wednesday.
Wilkins said Soliah had no legal standing to challenge the search of a garage in which the vehicle was stored.
myrnaopsahl.com /articles/su760409.htm   (263 words)

  
 Enemies Within
Two weeks later, Soliah delivered a eulogy for the slain revolutionaries in Berkeley's Ho Chi Minh Park, declaring that they had been 'viciously attacked and murdered by 500 pigs.' She publicly urged the SLA to fight on, adding, 'I am with you.
Like other young counter-culture revolutionaries of the period, "...The Soliahs [Kathleen and her brother Steve, also an SLA member] came from a middle-class, conservative home in Palmdale [CA], on the edge of the Mohave Desert northwest of Los Angeles...Kathleen had been an enthusiastic Nixon supporter in 1968...Soliah's political views changed after a student protest.
The saga of Kathleen Soliah lays bare the all-too-human underpinnings of the modern therapeutic church.
www.newtotalitarians.com /EnemiesWithin.html   (10590 words)

  
 Carmichael Bank: There Was A Trial Already : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
THERE WAS A TRIAL ALREADY Way back in 1976 Steven Soliah (Sara’s brother) was acquitted of participating in the Carmichael bank hold up which resulted in the death of Myrna Opsahl.
At the trial Soliah testified of Patty Hearst, "I lived with her.
He said he extended a helping hand because he didn't want to see Hearst and the Harrises end up like six other SLA members who were burned to death during a stand off with LA police.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2002/01/113997.php   (315 words)

  
 CNN.com - Hearst: 'Totally prepared' to testify in SLA trial - January 23, 2002
A public defender was appointed to represent her, and a bail hearing was set for February 1.
Olson, who was born Kathleen Soliah before changing her name while a fugitive, has insisted that she had only peripheral association with SLA members.
Two other people who have admitted participating in the robbery, Steven Soliah and Wendy Yoshimura, were given immunity after their grand jury testimony.
archives.cnn.com /2002/LAW/01/22/hearst.sla.trial/index.html   (859 words)

  
 Former SLA Members Arrested for 27-Year-Old Bank Heist .   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Olson, known as Kathleen Soliah at the time of the robbery, is set to be sentenced Friday in Los Angeles for her role in a failed plot to bomb a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser.
Hearst was granted immunity from prosecution for her admitted role in the Carmichael robbery.
Soliah, Olson's brother, is the only one ever prosecuted in the case.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/609585/posts   (3279 words)

  
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Her book, "SoLiAh: The Sara Jane Olson Story," is in stores this week.
"SoLiAh" is the first book to look at Sara Jane Olson's life in the context of the tumultuous 1960s and '70s, showing how political and social forces seduced a Midwestern woman named Kathleen Soliah into helping members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army.
Hendry didn't know any of this when she began researching the life of Kathleen Soliah, who transformed herself into soccer mom/gourmet cook/actress/volunteer Sara Jane Olson after her indictment on conspiracy charges in 1976.
www.winternet.com /~cable715/author.html   (1177 words)

  
 eastbayexpress.com - News - Patty Hearst's Little Red Book   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Now Hearst has reentered the public eye as a result of the June 1999 arrest of alleged SLA member Kathleen Soliah, who was apprehended after being featured on an episode of "America's Most Wanted." Soliah had changed her name to Sara Jane Olson and was living quietly as a mother and homemaker in Minnesota.
She was convicted in January for her role in planting bombs under Los Angeles police cars and sentenced to twenty years to life in prison.
In April of 1976, Steven Soliah, Kathleen's brother, was acquitted in federal court in Sacramento.
music.eastbayexpress.com /Issues/2002-03-13/news/cityside_2.html   (933 words)

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