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• Patricia Hearst is the daughter of publishing mogul William Randolph Hearst and became famous in the 1970s when she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Her subsequent membership in the group is often cited as an example of "Stockholm Syndrome."

• Fast Facts

  1. Born: February 20, 1954
  2. Birthplace: Sacramento, CA
  3. Granted a Presidential Pardon by Bill Clinton
  4. Spouse: Bernard Shaw
  5. Co-authored Murder at San Simeon
  6. Her french bulldog won "Best in Opposite Sex" at the 2008 Westminster Dog Show

• Hostage Joins The Cause

  Patty Hearst was raised in an affluent suburb of San Francisco and attended a girls school for the elite. At the age of nineteen she was abducted by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) who held her for ransom. They demanded that Hearst's family pay $70 in food to each underprivileged individual in California; the amount roughly totally $400 million. Hearst's father donated $6 million in food aid to the poor living in the Bay Area, but Patty Hearst herself felt the amount was not enough.

  She joined the SLA as a member and went to jail for a bank robbery carried out by the group in 1976. She served two years of her seven year sentence because president Jimmy Carter had it shortened. She was also later granted a presidential pardon by Bill Clinton in 2001.

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