Camilla Christine Hall was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small, far-left militant group that committed violent acts between 1973 and 1975.
22 Facts About Camilla Hall
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On March 24,1945, Camilla Christine Hall was born in Saint Peter, Minnesota.
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In 1952, the Camilla Hall family moved to what is Tanzania in East Africa.
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In 1954, when Camilla Hall was nine, the family returned to Saint Peter because of seven-year-old Nan's poor health.
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In Minnesota, Camilla Hall attended Washburn High School in Minneapolis, where she was involved in many activities.
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Camilla Hall transferred to the University of Minnesota after her freshman year.
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On June 10,1967, Camilla Hall graduated with a humanities degree.
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In June 1968, Camilla Hall returned to Minneapolis, where she was a caseworker for the Hennepin County, Minnesota welfare office.
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Co-workers and friends of Camilla Hall described her as witty, sympathetic, helpful, and compassionate.
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Camilla Hall had an outgoing personality and had a passion for literature.
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Camilla Hall carefully monitored the political situation in America, including the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where there was so much violence.
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Camilla Hall was active in the peace movement and food boycotts, including the Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
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In November 1969, Camilla Hall moved to Topanga, a northern suburb of Los Angeles, California.
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Camilla Hall moved to Berkeley in northern California in February 1971, which had become a center of political activism and social movements.
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In May 1971, Camilla Hall moved into an apartment complex on Channing Way where she met Patricia Soltysik.
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Camilla Hall wrote about Soltysik in a love poem named "Mizmoon", and nicknamed her that.
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Camilla Hall participated in the People's Park reoccupation during the summer of 1972, following the shootings there the year before.
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Camilla Hall stayed with friends while she traveled for three months.
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Police claimed that Perry came out firing a revolver and Camilla Hall was firing an automatic pistol.
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Investigators working for Camilla Hall's parents claimed that Perry had walked out of the house intending to surrender.
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Camilla Hall's parents held a funeral for their daughter on May 23,1974, at St John's Lutheran Church, in Lincolnwood, Illinois, a Chicago suburb, where he was pastor.
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Camilla Hall's ashes were buried on August 19,1974, in a small country graveyard where her late siblings were buried, who each died before she was 16.