Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 390
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 800
(BLACK RADICAL MOVEMENTS.) SYMBIONESE LIBERATION ARMY DE FREEZE, DONALD, aka CINQUE MT. Wanted by the F.B.I. Large black and white poster, 16 x 10-1/2 inches, creases where folded; three photographic images of De Freeze. Washington , D.C.: Federal Bureau of Investigation, 1974
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A rare F. B. I. "Wanted" poster for the leader of the Symbionese Liberation Army. No one might have ever had heard of Donald De Freeze or the SLA had it not been for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, daughter of the most powerful newspaper magnate in the world. Hearst, to the great surprise of her father and the authorities became a victim of what is now know as "Stockholm Syndrome" and became an outspoken member of the movement, even participating in a bank robbery. De Freeze had a "sheet" a mile long, beginning as a street gang member at age fourteen. While in Soledad Prison, De Freeze met with some far left volunteers, doing work at the prison and was converted. At was at this time that he adopted the name "Field Marshall Cinque," after the Amistad leader. It was believed that De Freeze murdered Oakland School Superintendant Marcus Foster and wounding of Assistant Superintendant Robert Blackburn. De Freeze and other SLA members were killed in a shootout with authorities; Hearst escaped and became the subject of a nationwide manhunt.