SOLIAH: THE SARA JANE OLSON STORY

Softcover. Kathleen Soliah is serving 20yrs-to-life for her role in planting powerful pipe bombs under two Los Angeles police cars in 1976. For more than two decades she had lived in St. Paul, Minnesota, as Sara Jane Olson, doctor's wife, mother of three, actress and community activist. How had an idealistic young woman become involved with the Symbionese Liberation Army, urban terrorists who murdered an Oakland school superintendent and kidnapped publishing heires Patty Hearst? The author revisits the emotional tensions that surrounded the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, the Kennedy and King assassinations, and the radical culture of the '60s and '70s. It is a story of idealism and misguided youth gone violently wrong. Illus. + Select Bibliog. 371pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with nbo creasing to covers.