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Hearst Uses A Machine Gun To Rescue An SLA Comrade

It is not hard to see how public support for Hearst collapsed when the tale of her May 1974 shootout with a surplus store manager is told. The manager had confronted William Harris and Emily Harris, both members of the group, while Hearst waited outside in a van. During the confrontation, William Harris had a wrist manacled by the manager and he dropped a pistol on the floor. Hearst, who had been taught to shoot by her father, then fired the entire contents of a carbine into the storefront which left the manager cowering in fear for his life. When he attempted to return fire, Hearst came close to killing him and left him covered in fragments of store fittings.