Patty Hearst was the granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. On Feb. 4, 1974 three members of the Symbionese Liberation Army broke into her apartment in Berkeley, California and abducted her. They beat up her fiancé and a neighbor who tried to help. They fired guns at eyewitnesses. The SLA considered Hearst to be a prisoner of war in the war on capitalism. They demanded the Hearst family pay for $70 worth of food for all the needy in the area. The family paid $2 million, but refused an additional demand of $6 million because Patty was not released. She was abused and brainwashed and in a case of Stockholm syndrome, she was converted to the beliefs of her captors. She took the name Tania and made a tape explaining that she was joining the terrorist organization of her own free will. In April, she was picked up on a surveillance camera joining in a bank robbery in San Francisco and later participated in one in Los Angeles. On May 17, 1975, after a massive manhunt, the LA police assaulted the SLA headquarters and killed all 6 members there. But Tania and two others were not there and went on the lam, traveling throughout the nation. On Sept. 18, she was captured in a San Francisco apartment. Although represented by famed lawyer F. Lee Bailey, she was convicted of bank robbery and sentenced to 7 years. She served 21 months before Pres. Carter commuted her sentence. In 2001, Pres. Clinton pardoned her.
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