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It's April 15th, 1974, on a quiet suburban street in San Francisco.

Customers and bank tellers at the Hibernia Bank are happily going about their business when suddenly, at 9.50 a.m., the front door flies open

and five armed robbers storm inside. With what seems like choreographed precision, three of

the robbers force a bank tell her to open the safe, while the other two handle the customers and

employees. One of the robbers is a young woman of just 19. She holds her rifle awkwardly,

clearly not used to carrying a weapon. And she looks fidgety and nervous as she orders the customers

to get against the wall while police sirens wail in the distance. Moments later, the young woman's

three accomplices returned from pillaging the safe with a duffel bag filled with $10,000 in cash.

With their loot in tow, the robbers make for the door. But then, two more customers enter the bank, blocking the exit.

One of the robbers points his rifle and fires. The robbers swiftly exit the bank, all except for the young woman.

She's frozen, a look of horror on her face.

The two customers who walked in the door lie crumpled and bleeding on the floor.

The young woman's hands start to tremble, but she doesn't linger for long.

With police sirens blaring in her ears, the young woman follows her accomplices out of the bank and into a getaway vehicle,

which roars away from the curb and disappears seconds before police cars arrive at the scene.

The bank robbery is one of several crimes to have occurred in the San Francisco Bay Area in recent weeks.

And when the FBI reviews security camera footage,

they're not surprised to identify the culprits as members of the left-wing Symbionese Liberation Army,

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