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And we continue with our American stories, the show where America is the star and the American people.

In 1974, Patricia Hurst,

heiast of the William Randolph-Hurst newspaper empire,

was abducted by an American far-left militant organization,

and she eventually joined their cause.

Here to tell the story is Ashley Lubinsky.

Ashley is the former co-host of Discovery Channel's Master of Arms

and the former curator in charge of the Cody Firearms Museum.

Here's Ashley.

The 1960s and 70s in American history was, to say the least, a tumultuous time, wrought with violence and unrest as various activist groups sought a range of different changes in American culture.

So it was anything from civil rights and human rights, but in some cases these organizations moved into domestic terrorism

and sought to completely topple and reconfigure the government.

And a lot of those groups were inspired by communism and China's chairman Mao.

But one of the more bizarre stories from this time frame involved a socialite

and the first domestic terrorist organization

in the country, the Symbionese Liberation Army,

which is also known simply as the SLA.

And it's a history about kidnapping,

potential brainwashing, and accountability

for crimes against the state.

Patricia Campbell Hearst, who's better known as Patty, was born in 1954, and if you recognize

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