Rolf Zaeschmar Wrote:It should be noted that the SLA was not the only example of high strangeness that came out of that city in the late '60s and early '70s:


San Francisco Chronicle, 9-25-76
"...shortly after the assassination attempt on President Ford in San Francisco(on 9-22-75 by Sara Jane Moore), a presidential aide described the city as "the kook capital of the world" "

The greater San Francisco Bay Area from the late 1960s to the mid 1970s was either the genesis or the host to a huge number of fringe/radical organizations--political, religious, and social. It started in the summer of love with the psychedelic landscape of Haight-Ashbury. Followed quickly by the gangs, cults and radical groups which included the Black Panther Party, the Black Liberation Army, the Black Guerrilla Army, the Black Culture Association, the United Prisoner's Union, the Symbionese Liberation Army, the Weather Underground, the Tribal Thumb, Prairie Fire, Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier, the Revolutionary Union, New World Liberation Front, August Seventh Guerrilla Movement, Venceremos, the White Panthers, the Aryan Brotherhood, the Merry Pranksters, the Manson Family, the Gypsy Jokers, the Hells Angels, the Church of Satan, Jim Jones's Peoples Temple, the Hare Krishnas, and even the Process Church of the Final Judgement.

Not to mention all the serial killers that soon became active in the greater Bay Area: the Zodiac, the Zebras, the Doodler, the Paper Bag killer, the Santa Rosa hitchhiker killer, Juan Corona, Herb Mullin, Edmund Kemper, Richard Trenton Chase, and even possibly the first of New York's "Son of Sam" murders(the Arlis Perry case of 1974) ....

Not to mention a disastrous rock concert at Altamont, the Patricia Hearst kidnapping, two attempts on the life of President Gerald Ford, and the assassination of SF Mayor Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBFPpXNpU-c