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...
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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...