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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1981
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LA indifferent to killing,
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EVV YORK — Patty Hearst
her terrorist associates in the
ibionese Liberation Army had
> what” attitude about killing a
nan in their bank robbery
ie, ABC reported.
In her first interview since
ig released from prison in
9, Hearst told ABC’s Barbara
Iters that after she was cap-
;d in 1976, she gave the FBI
rmation that could have been
d against 30 associates but au-
rities never made use of it.
Hearst, 27, was kidnapped by
\ members on Feb. 4, 1974,
then joined them in a crime
e that lasted until she was cap-
d 19 months later.
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She was prosecuted for one
e, robbing the Hibernia Bank
San Francisco, but in her re-
Itly released book, ‘‘Every Sec-
Thing,” she tells of participat-
; in two other bank robberies.
including one in which a woman
was killed.
The newspaper heiress, now
married to a San Francisco police
officer and the mother of a 6-
month-old daughter, spoke with
Walters about the fatal robbery
that took place in Sacramento,
Calif.
“A woman was killed there in
that robbery and she was a cus
tomer in the bank,” said Hearst,
who said she was sitting in the
getaway car at the time.
Hearst said Emily Harris, an
SLA leader along with her hus
band, Bill, killed the woman.
Hearst said the Harrises were
completely unemotional about the
killing.
“It wasn’t something that they
felt badly about,” she said. “Not
like they hade made some horrible
mistake.
“It was, oh, well, she (the vic
tim) was a pig. After all, her hus-
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band was a doctor. So what. It just
... it was so cold. It didn’t matter
what they did to anybody. They
were always right, always.”
Hearst said she told the FBI ev
erything she knew about the Sac
ramento robbery but no one was
prosecuted for it.
“William and Emily Harris
have never been prosecuted for
their role in any of the bank rob
beries or the killing,” Walters
said.
“Patty told us that as a result of
all the information she gave the
FBI, upwards of 30 people could
have been prosecuted for different
SLA crimes.
“No one, she says, was.”
Mrs. Harris and her husband
were convicted on charges of kid
napping and various charges stem
ming from a shootout during a
botched robbery at Los Angeles
sporting goods store.
Hearst said she discussed her
crimes in the book because she
does not fear she will be retried.
“Sometimes my parents don’t
understand why I’m doing this,”
she said. “I’ve had more horrible
threats hanging over my head than
gonna be tried again, you know
not that. I’ve been threatened by
people who were a whole lot bet
ter at it.”
Besides the bank robberies,
Hearst said, she and the SLA
members stole wallets and made
various attempts to bomb police
cars in the Los Angeles and San
Francisco Bay areas.
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