Patty Hearst
Patricia Campbell Hearst (born February 20, 1954), now known as Patricia Hearst-Shaw, is an American whose apparent joining of a terrorist group that abducted her has been described as one of the most surreal episodes of the seventies. Hearst is the great-granddaughter of philanthropist Phoebe Hearst, and granddaughter of the late publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. In 1974, when she was 19 years old, she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Isolated and threatened with death, Hearst was gradually co-opted into identifying with her abductors' cause. She made propaganda announcements for them and took part in illegal activities. Hearst was found 19 months after her kidnapping, by which time she was a fugitive wanted for serious crimes. Her conviction and long prison sentence were widely seen as unjust, but the procedural correctness of her trial was upheld by the courts. She was pardoned by President Bill Clinton.