Patty Hearst: Rebel heiress

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.4 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

When wealthy newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped by far-left militants in February 1974, America saw her as a victim.

But two months later, she announced she had decided to join the group. Soon, she was accompanying it on an attempted bank robbery.

In 2010, Louise Hidalgo spoke to Carol Pogash, a journalist who followed the story.

(Photo: Patty being led to her trial. Credit: Bettmann/Getty Images)

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1:04.6	We're going back 50 years to a story of kidnap and attempted robbery.
1:09.6	In 2010, Louis Hidalgo told the tale of the stolen socialite that shocked America.
1:15.7	April 1974.
1:18.0	It's been two months since the young American newspaper heiress Patty Hurst was snatched from her California apartment by a
1:24.9	little-known group of revolutionaries calling themselves the symbionese
1:28.6	liberation army. News of the kidnap has gripped America with people following every twist and turn.
1:36.0	And then after weeks of silence the SLA releases a new recording.
1:41.0	In an almost inaudible voice, Patty Hurst announces that far from wanting to be released,
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