SLA: Nancy Ling Perry

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Nancy Ling Perry (September 19, 1947 - May 17, 1974) also known as "Fahizah" was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Nancy Ling Perry was born in San Francisco to a upper middle-class family. She attended Santa Rosa High School where she was a cheerleader and a Sunday school teacher. In 1964 while in high school she was a campaign worker for Barry Goldwater (just like Hillary Rodham). She began university at Whittier College however, after a few semesters at Whittier she transferred to the University of California at Berkeley. At the University of California at Berkeley she majored in English.

Nancy Ling Perry was married for six years to African-American jazz musician Gilbert Perry, whom she met when he was working for the State Employment office. Their relationship was described as a "love-hate affair" which ended when Gilbert left Nancy.

Nancy Ling Perry worked as topless blackjack dealer in San Francisco and went through a period of heavy use of psychedelic drugs and amphetamines.

She has been accused by other members of the SLA as having taken part in the Marcus Foster assassination.

On May 17, 1974 Nancy Ling Perry along with several members of the SLA was killed in 1466 East 54th Street, during a shootout with the Los Angeles Police Department.

Hibernia Bank... Nancy Ling Perry taking part in the April 15, 1974 Hibernia Bank robbery. Arrow added by the FBI. FBI photo.

References/Bibliography

• Shana Alexander, Anyone's Daughter: The Times and Trials of Patricia Hearst,
• Carolyn Anspacher & the San Francisco Chronicle, The Trial of Patty Hearst, Great Fidelity Press, 1976.
• Marilyn Baker, Exclusive!: the inside story of Patricia Hearst and the SLA, Macmillan Publishing, 1974.
• Mary F. Beal, Safe House: A Casebook Study of Revolutionary Feminism in the 1970's, Northwest Matrix, 1976.
• Jerry Belcher & Don West, Patty/Tania, Pyramid Books, 1975
• David Boulton, The Making Of Tania Hearst, Bergenfield, N.J., U.S.A.: New American Library, 1975
• John Bryan, This Soldier Still At War, (on Joe Remiro) Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975
• Patty Hearst with Alvin Moscow, Patty Hearst: Her Own Story, New York: Avon, 1982. This was the title after the movie came out. Original title: Every Secret Thing.
• Sharon D. Hendry, Soliah: The Sara Jane Olson Story, Cable Publishing, 2002.
• Janey Jimenez (U.S. Marshal who escorted Hearst between prison and the court during the trial) with Ted Berkman, My Prisoner, Sheed Andrews and McMeel, 1977.
• Jean Brown Kinney, An American journey: The short life of Willy Wolfe, Simon and Schuster, 1976.
• Vin McLellan, Paul Avery, The voices of guns: The definitive and dramatic story of the twenty-two-month career of the Symbionese Liberation Army, one of the most bizarre chapters in the history of the American Left, Putnam, 1977.
• John Pascal, The Strange Case of Patty Hearst, New American Library, 1974.
• Findley & Craven Payne, Life and Death of the SLA, Ballantine, 1976.
• Robert Brainard Pearsall, Symbionese Liberation Army: Documents and Communications, Rodopi, 1974
• Fred Soltysik, In Search of a Sister 1976.
• Steven Weed, with Scott Swanton. My Search for Patty Hearst, New York: Warner, 1976. Weed was Hearst's boyfriend at the time of the kidnapping. That was the end of their relationship.
• Video: Patty Hearst, based on Every Secret Thing, directed by Paul Schrader, 1988.
• Video: The Ordeal of Patty Hearst (1979) (TV)
• Video: Patty Hearst: The E! True Hollywood Story (2000) (TV)
• Video: Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army aka Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, Directed by Robert Stone, 2004, documentary.

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