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Hearst, who prefers to be called Patricia rather than Patty, [1] was born on February 20, 1954, in San Francisco, California, [2] [3] 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 ...
The SLA claimed credit for the kidnapping, and demanded that the Hearst family feed the poor en masse. Hearst's desperate father, publisher of the San Francisco Examiner, spent $2 million on a ...
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 ...
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, 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 is a 2004 PBS documentary film about the 1974 kidnapping of Patty Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army left-wing revolutionary group. It was directed by Robert Stone , and features interviews with Timothy Findley and SLA members Russ Little and Michael Bortin.
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.