Patty Hearst Story (part 1)

From Patty Hearst to Tania:
Shifting from one Personality Paradigm to Another

The abduction of Patty Hearst in 1974 was no ordinary kidnap story. She was a Berkeley undergraduate and was the heiress of the Hearst publishing empire. But what made her case more extraordinary was the fact that after having been held for ransom by the Symbionese Liberation Army or SLA, Patty Hearst joined the neo-revolutionary group and became one of them. She denounced her parents, dismissed her fiancé, announced that she loathed the wealthy way of life and upheld the principles of those who kidnapped her, changed her name to Tania and became romantically involved with one of the members. Like the soldiers of the SLA, Hearst became a callous and angry revolutionist out to get the rich and avenge the underprivileged.

Along with some of the group’s members, an excited Hearst robbed San Francisco’s Hibernia Bank two months after she was held captive. After wounding two bystanders and taking over $ 10,000 with them, the group fled the scene. Later on, she was seen sitting alone in a van and waiting for two of her colleagues, Emily and Bill Harris, to come back from shoplifting. When authorities apprehended them, Patty cold-bloodedly fired a series of warning shots, screaming "let them go, you mother f*ckers or you’re all dead!" The three escaped with no injuries. For a year and a half, Hearst spent her life on the run until she was found in an apartment and arrested by the FBI. (to be continued...)


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Patty Hearst Story (part 2)
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Patty Hearst Story (part 6)
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