In 1974, Patty Hearst was dragged screaming from her apartment and thrown in the trunk of a car. Fifty-nine days later, she was robbing a bank with the people who kidnapped her.
On the evening of February 4, 1974, armed members of a radical group burst into a Berkeley apartment, beat up 19-year-old Patty Hearst's fiancé with a wine bottle, threw her in the trunk of a car, and drove away.
She was the granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst. The SLA knew exactly who they had taken.
The Symbionese Liberation Army had already shot two Oakland school officials, ki*ling one.
They began releasing audiotapes demanding food distribution to the poor in exchange for Hearst's release.
Her parents distributed $2 million worth of food across the Bay Area. The SLA refused to release her.
Then came the tape that stunned America. Fifty-nine days after her kidnapping, Hearst announced on tape that she had chosen to join the SLA and fight, taking the name Tania after a comrade who had fought alongside Che Guevara in Bolivia.
The Hibernia Bank robbery occurred shortly afterward on April 15, netting $10,692 and resulting in two bystanders being shot.
Security camera footage showed Hearst holding an assault rifle and ordering customers to the floor, announcing "I am Tania."
Six core SLA members were ki*led in a Los Angeles police raid in May 1974. Hearst was not there. She spent the next year on the run.
When she was finally arrested in September 1975, she told the booking sergeant her occupation was "urban guerrilla."
Represented by F. Lee Bailey, she was convicted of armed bank robbery and sentenced to seven years. President Carter commuted her sentence.
President Clinton gave her a full pardon on his last day in office.
She later described it as Stockholm Syndrome.
@Shaqsuchiha23 Mate..you don’t have a leg to stand on when you have cave man features and nostrils so big that when you sniff you start a national draft.