1. Wendy Masako Yoshimura was born on January 17,1943 and is an American still life watercolor painter.
19 Facts About Wendy Yoshimura
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Wendy Yoshimura was a member of the leftist terrorist group the Symbionese Liberation Army during the mid-1970s.
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Wendy Yoshimura was born in Manzanar, one of numerous World War II-era internment camps for Japanese Americans who were forced out of their homes and businesses along the West Coast.
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Wendy Yoshimura was raised both in Japan and California's Central Valley.
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Wendy Yoshimura founded the Revolutionary Army, another violent leftist organization, in Berkeley, California.
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The family returned to the US when Wendy Yoshimura was 13 years old.
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Wendy Yoshimura learned English rapidly and later graduated in 1969 from the California College of Arts and Crafts.
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Wendy Yoshimura became associated with the Revolutionary Army, a group founded by her boyfriend, Willie Brandt.
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Wendy Yoshimura used the title in public statements claiming responsibility for violent actions intended to express opposition to the Vietnam War.
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Wendy Yoshimura lived under an alias in New Jersey until 1974.
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Wendy Yoshimura was sentenced to a one-to-fifteen years in prison.
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Wendy Yoshimura arranged for Yoshimura to join them and handle shopping and other public transactions.
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Wendy Yoshimura fled San Francisco and reunited with the SLA members in Sacramento.
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Hearst's account in Every Secret Thing states that she and Wendy Yoshimura opposed the action and were assigned to "switch cars" far from the scene.
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On September 18,1975, Wendy Yoshimura was arrested with Hearst in a second-floor apartment at 625 Morse Street by FBI Special Agent Tom Padden and San Francisco Police Department Inspector Tim Casey.
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Ultimately, Wendy Yoshimura was convicted on explosives and weapons charges and sent to state prison for six months; she was paroled in 1980.
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In 1991 Wendy Yoshimura was granted limited immunity to testify during a grand jury investigation into the 1975 armed bank robbery by the SLA in Carmichael, California in which Myrna Opsahl, 42-year-old mother of four, was killed.
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Wendy Yoshimura is an artist and resides in north Oakland, California.
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Wendy Yoshimura teaches water color painting at her studio and at a San Francisco community center.