Camilla Christine Hall (March 24, 1945 – May 17, 1974) was a member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA),[2] a small, far-left militant group that committed violent acts between 1973 and 1975.
Police fatally shot both Hall and Nancy Ling Perry as they left the house, firing their own pistols.
George and Lorena Hall taught in schools and did mission work, while Camilla and Nan played with the native children.
While Camilla attended elementary school in Minnesota and lived with relatives, her birth family moved to Montclair, New Jersey.
[5] After graduation, Hall moved to Duluth, Minnesota, where she started as a caseworker for social services in St. Louis County.
[9] In June 1968, Hall returned to Minneapolis, where she was a caseworker for the Hennepin County, Minnesota welfare office.
At the same time, Hall frequently talked with family and friends about philosophy and how she was disappointed with the state of welfare.
She carefully monitored the political situation in America, including the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago where there was so much violence.
[8] She was active in the peace movement and food boycotts, including the Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.
According to Rachael Hanel, "She lived off her savings, interest income from a trust, money from her parents, and selling her simple, Rubenesque line drawings.
Hall moved to Berkeley in northern California in February 1971, which had become a center of political activism and social movements.
Through her association with Soltysik, Little, and Wolfe, she became a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small, radical leftist group.
In January 1974 the SLA base was moved to Concord, California, where Nancy Ling Perry rented a house under an assumed name.
Hall and Hearst were identified from security camera images as participants in the April 15, 1974, armed robbery of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco.
[13] 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.