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Sara Jane Olson (born Kathleen Ann Soliah on January 16, 1947) was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in the 1970s. She grew up in Palmdale, California, the daughter of Norwegian-American parents,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=StarTribune - Print Page )〕 Elsie Soliah (née Engstrom)〔 and Palmdale High School English teacher〔 and coach Martin Soliah.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=OLSON STUNS COURTROOM SLA FUGITIVE PLEADS GUILTY, BUT LATER SAYS SHE'S NOT. )〕 She went into hiding in 1976 after having been indicted in a bombing case. She has lived much of her life under the alias Sara Jane Olson, which is now her legal name. Arrested in 1999, she pleaded guilty in 2001 to two counts of possessing explosives with intent to murder, and in 2003 to second-degree murder, both stemming from her SLA activities in the 1970s. She received a sentence of 14 years in prison. She was mistakenly released for five days in March 2008 due to an error made in calculating her parole before being rearrested.〔(70's radical-turned-housewife back in prison ), CNN, March 22, 2008〕 She was finally released on parole on March 17, 2009.〔(Former 1970s radical freed from Calif. prison, to be paroled home in Minnesota ), AP, March 17, 2009〕 ==Symbionese Liberation Army== Kathleen Soliah was born in Fargo, North Dakota while her family were living in Barnesville, Minnesota.〔 When she was eight, her conservative Lutheran〔 family relocated to Southern California. After graduating from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Soliah moved to Berkeley, California with her boyfriend, James Kilgore. There, she met Angela Atwood at an acting audition where they both won lead roles. They became inseparable during the play's run. Atwood tried to sponsor Soliah into the SLA. Regardless, Soliah and Jim Kilgore, along with her brother Steve and sister Josephine followed the SLA closely, but did not join.〔(The Last Revolutionary: Sara Jane Olson Speaks ) by Greg Goldin, ''LA Weekly'', January 18, 2002〕 When Atwood and other core members of the SLA were killed in 1974 during a standoff with police near Watts, California following their murder of the Oakland school superintendent, the Soliahs organized memorial rallies, including a rally in Berkeley's Willard Park (called Ho Chi Minh park by activists) where Soliah spoke in support of her friend Atwood, while being covertly filmed by the FBI.〔(Soliah-Olson timeline: Radical, bank robber, mom, inmate )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=June 27, 1999: The life and times of Sara Jane Olson )〕 At that rally, Soliah said that her fellow SLA members had been: She asserted that Atwood "was a truly revolutionary woman ... among the first white women to fight so righteously for their beliefs and to die for what they believed in."〔(The Last Revolutionary: Sara Jane Olson Speaks, Page 2 ) by Greg Goldin, ''LA Weekly'', January 18, 2002〕 Now a fugitive, founding SLA member Emily Harris disguised herself and visited Soliah, who was on the job at a bookstore. Soliah later recalled, "I was glad she was alive. I expected them to be killed at any time." She felt sorry for the group and agreed to help the remaining group hide from the police and FBI.〔 She assisted them by procuring supplies for their San Francisco hideout and birth certificates of dead infants that could be used for identification purposes.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sara Jane Olson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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