Emily Harris
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This article is about the SLA member. For other uses, see Emily Harris (disambiguation).
Emily Harris (born February 11, 1947, as Emily Montague Schwartz) was, along with her husband William Harris (1945–), a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), an American left-wing terrorist group involved in murder, kidnapping, and bank robberies. In the 1970s, she was convicted of kidnapping Patty Hearst.
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Born | (1947-02-11) February 11, 1947 (age 77) |
Other names | Yolanda Emily Montague Schwartz |
Movement | Symbionese Liberation Army |
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In 2003, she was convicted of murder in the second degree for being the shooter in a 1975 slaying that occurred while she and other SLA members were robbing a bank in California. She was sentenced to eight years in prison for the murder.