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Biography of Patricia HearstName: Patricia HearstBirth Date: February 20, 1954 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, United States Nationality: American Gender: Female Occupations: heiress, author Patricia Hearst Patricia Hearst (born 1954) was heiress to a wealthy newspaper publisher when she was kidnapped and held for ransom by a small leftist terrorist group in California. She was later tried and sent to prison, along with her kidnappers, on charges of bank robbery.Patricia Hearst became an American celebrity, victim, and criminal in February 1974 when she was kidnapped by a leftist terrorist group, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). This obscure Oakland, California, revolutionary group held her for a million ransom. Patricia was the granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst, the wealthy California newspaper publisher, but during months of harsh captivity she was allegedly brainwashed and renamed "Tania." To obtain her release, her parents donated millions of dollars worth of food to the poor, but the giveaway became a fiasco and did not result in her release.Urban GuerrillaWhen Hearst was filmed in April 1974 assisting the SLA in a San Francisco bank …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…cars in Los Angeles. The bombs failed to detonate. But in her autobiography, Hearst placed Olson at the scene of the SLA bank robbery in Sacramento, California where a bank patron was shot and killed. Olson has contested Hearst's story.Hearst, for her part, has said she resents being drawn back into the public eye. In 2001, The Guardian quoted her as saying about the Olson trial, "It has turned into my trial. And I am not going to play dead any more. I keep trying to forget these people and they keep dragging me back into it." Further Reading Duncan Campbell, "'It has turned into my trial'."The Guardian (May 2, 2001). Available from http://www.guardian.co.uk/.Patricia Campbell Hearst and Alvin Moscow, Every Secret Thing (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1982).Patricia Campbell Hearst and Cordelia Frances Biddle, Murder at San Simeon, Scribner, 1996.Don West, Patty/Tania (New York: Pyramid, 1975). |