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Hearst, who prefers to be called Patricia rather than Patty, [2] was born on February 20, 1954, in San Francisco, California, [3] [4] the third of five daughters of Randolph Apperson Hearst and Catherine Wood Campbell.
Newspaper heiress Patricia “Patty” Hearst was kidnapped at gunpoint 50 years ago Sunday by the Symbionese Liberation Army, later joining her captors in a 1974 San Francisco bank robbery that ...
Patricia Hearst's transformation into a fervent member of the SLA was part of a strange saga at the nexus of leftist militancy and American aristocracy, saturation media coverage and youth revolt.
In February 1974 SLA members kidnapped Patty Hearst, a college student and one of the heirs to the Hearst newspaper empire. This action attracted much more media attention, as did the group's demands that Hearst's family provide compensation to the poor in California as a kind of ransom. [4]
Patty Hearst turned 70 on Tuesday. That might not mean a great deal to some of you. ... 1974, she was a 19-year-old University of California at Berkeley student when she was kidnapped from her ...
Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of publisher William Randolph Hearst, was taken and held hostage by the Symbionese Liberation Army, "an urban guerrilla group", in 1974. She was recorded denouncing her family as well as the police using her new name, "Tania", and was later seen working with the SLA to rob banks in San Francisco.
Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (2004), directed by Robert Stone (It was released under the alternate title Neverland: The Rise and Fall of the Symbionese Liberation Army.) The Radical Story of Patty Hearst (2018) (TV); the Cable News Network produced a six-part docuseries on Patty Hearst. It featured on-air statements by several former ...
In 1974, his daughter Patty made front pages nationwide when she was kidnapped by an extremist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, and was soon after caught on film helping the group to rob banks. She renounced the SLA soon after her arrest. [6] The ordeal placed enormous strain on the Hearst marriage, eventually leading to divorce in 1982.