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The Write Team Daily: "Patty Hearst: Fugitive"
September 18, 1975. San Francisco.
After more than a year of kidnapping, radical politics, bank robberies, violence, and a nationwide manhunt, federal agents finally captured Patty Hearst, granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Nineteen-year-old Hearst had been kidnapped in 1974 by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army. Weeks later, she shocked the country by announcing that she had joined her captors and adopted the name “Tania.” Then came the unforgettable images of Hearst carrying a weapon during a San Francisco bank robbery.
Was she a kidnapped victim acting under…
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