Joseph “Bo” Remiro

• Founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army
• Maoist radical
• In 1975, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison

Joseph “Bo” Remiro was a founding member of the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a domestic terrorist group of the 1970s that was created by escaped convict Donald DeFreeze.

Remiro dropped out of San Francisco City College around 1965 and joined the U.S. Army, where he served in the Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol and spent some time in Vietnam. He returned to the U.S., where he joined Venceremos and Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW), but eventually decided that those groups were not militant enough for his revolutionary spirit. He thereafter became involved with the Black Convict Association, an education program for convicts at the Vacaville psychiatric prison in California, and the Peking House, a Maoist collective where he became best friends with fellow future SLA member Russell Little.

In 1973 Remiro was arrested for the murder of Oakland (California) Schools Superintendent Marcus Foster. He was found guilty in 1975 and was sentenced to life in prison.