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Yoshimura became associated with the Revolutionary Army, a group founded by her boyfriend, Willie Brandt. He used the title in public statements claiming responsibility for violent actions intended to express opposition to the Vietnam War.
Wendy Yoshimura, former member with her friend Willie Brandt of the Revolutionary Army, a violent activist group. She was convicted and imprisoned for the California bank robbery and murder with the SLA, and was later paroled.
Jan 11, 2000 · Wendy Yoshimura also went to prison--not for any SLA crimes, but for an earlier explosives case involving Bortin and her former boyfriend, radical Willie Brandt.
Mar 18, 2020 · One of Scott’s closest friends in Berkeley was Cal dropout Willie Brandt, allegedly one of Berkeley’s most prolific bombers, suspected of having a role in at least nine Bay Area bombings, with targets ranging from local bank branches to Berkeley campus buildings.
In her last year, Hearst wrote, Yoshimura started dating Willie Brandt, a radical anti-Vietnam War activist, and the two went to Cuba to harvest sugar cane.
Nov 30, 2023 · Artist and fugitive who was arrested with heiress Patricia Hearst in a notorious 1970s case. Wendy Yoshimura (1943– ) was born in Manzanar , where her parents, Frank and Fumiye, had been incarcerated along with all other Japanese Americans on the West Coast.
Among the items which FBI investigators subsequently found in the hideout was a letter that Yoshimura had recently written (but never mailed) to her former boyfriend Willie Brandt, a letter whose contents proved conclusively that Yoshimura was deeply involved with, and committed to, the SLA.
