Emily Harris

Emily Harris is a figure I approach with caution rather than admiration. Born in Baltimore in 1947 and educated at Indiana University, she could have lived an ordinary life, yet she joined the Symbionese Liberation Army and was convicted in the kidnapping of Patty Hearst and, in 2003, of second-degree murder as the shooter in a 1975 bank-robbery killing. I cannot romanticize that path, but I also cannot look away from what it reveals about how the fevered ideals of the 1970s could pull people toward violence. Her story is less a portrait to celebrate than a sobering lesson in how conviction, unchecked, can curdle. I remember her as history, not as a hero.

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Name (English)

Emily Harris

Name (Japanese)

エミリー・ハリス

Reading

えみりー・はりす

Born

February 11, 1947 (age 79)

Origin

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Occupation

Public figure

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Boar

University

Indiana University

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Harris
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5372204

Tags

• Maryland

Last updated

September 28, 2026

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