On This Day: Newspaper Heiress Patty Hearst Is Kidnapped

On Feb. 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, beginning a nearly two-year dramatic saga that captivated the ...

[BAGELIST]

I watched "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst" and "The Weather Underground" on consecutive nights. That was a good week. What a crazy time in American history.

[Janet]

I wonder if Patty Hearst has been rehabilitated or if she still considers herself a "soldier of the people's army."

[Borneo]

Patty Hearst has such a crazy story. I'd like to read more about her.

[BettyB]

How could a person recover from something like that? It would require some serious therapy, I'm sure.

[Brianna]

Borneo wrote:

Patty Hearst has such a crazy story. I'd like to read more about her.

She wrote a book or at least authorized one. I read it a few years ago. I don't remember much, but I remember her being locked in a closet and that the SLA women were expected to sleep with pretty much any SLA man that tapped them.

[tinker]

i'm totally sympathetic, but boy would it be hard to be friends with a person after that. jeepers!

[Jeffer]

Patty Hearst looks kind of cute in that pic, like in a "I eat baseball bats for lunch" sort of way.

[Nell]

What a wonderfully weird story.

[mushroom bagel]

Nell wrote:

What a wonderfully weird story.

I agree. I was trying to think up similar cases, in which a celebrity has been abducted and brainwashed by captors, and could not think of anything.

[George Vreeland Hill]

Love Patty!
Power to the people!!

George Vreeland Hill

[Comr Mark Anthony]

What are the FG up to let FG give ASUU what they need we are really tried of this strike.com r mark Anthony Student

[Tawana]

I'll never forget the incident mentioned in the article when the safe house went up in flames and they thought she was in it.