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Episode 393: Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 2 (preview)

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🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 15 minutes

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To hear the full episode, subscribe at patreon.com/TrueAnonPod --------- Part two of our discussion of Tribal Thumb, the obscure 1970s radical group in the Bay Area with eerie parallels to the Manson Family & the SLA. Matt and Matt from Left in the Bay join us to talk about the radical energy percolating through California in the 1970s and the twists and turns of the Symbionese Liberation Army saga. patreon.com/leftinthebay instagram.com/leftinthebay x.com/leftinthebay

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0:00.0

So this murder happens, I also just to be clear like everyone else in this

0:06.4

in the symbionese Liberation Army is white. There's one black dude who leaves almost

0:11.2

immediately, pretty much immediately. But like their core group throughout its history. Yeah.

0:16.2

It's just all these white. It's like middle class and then sometimes upper class white people.

0:21.6

Yeah.

0:23.0

So there's kind of not a lot going on for the rest of like November and December with the SLA.

0:29.4

In January, two of the guys, Russ Little and and Joe Romero are stopped on the Bay Bridge in a

0:36.0

traffic stop and there's a ton of fucking SLA weapons and propaganda in their

0:41.8

car they get charged for the murder of Marcus Foster.

0:48.2

It seems like at this time, allegedly Nancy Link Perry was renting a house in Concord

0:52.4

where they were hiding out to kind of let

0:54.8

shit cool off after Marcus Foster.

0:57.4

Once these guys are arrested, she sets fire to the house, which is not entirely burned down, so we like still has a ton of evidence in it

1:05.8

also a little little pre-saging what will eventually happen yeah exactly

1:12.2

but basically happen. Yeah, exactly. But basically then the SLA like fully goes underground and

1:17.9

there's this kind of you know alleged police search for them at that point that kind of ramps up.

1:25.0

And then shortly after that is where we get our big day February 4th, 1974.

1:34.0

Patty Hurst, is kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment and her

1:42.0

horrific fiance.

1:45.0

Stephen Weed.

1:46.0

Stephen Weed.

1:48.0

Stephen Weed.

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