Patty Hearst the rebel heiress

Witness History

BBC

History, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.5 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 April 2019

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Patty Hearst was kidnapped by an extreme left-wing group called the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974. She had been held hostage for two months when, in April of that year, she announced that she had come to share their beliefs. She would go on to take part in an attempted bank robbery before being arrested and put on trial. Louise Hidalgo spoke to two women who remember the impact of her kidnapping in California in 1974.

Photo: Patty Hearst posing with a machine gun in front of a Symbionese Liberation Army flag in 1974. (Credit: Getty Images.)

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1:15.0	Louis Adagelgo. Today I'm taking you back to April 1974 when America was shocked to
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1:24.1	Aresse had joined the armed gang who had kidnapped her two months earlier.
1:29.3	Patty Hurst had been snatched from her California apartment by a little-known group of
1:33.6	revolutionaries calling themselves the symbionese Liberation Army. News of the
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