The Hunt for Patty Hearst: A Guerrilla Gang Kidnapped Postdeb Patty — And Turned Her Into Terrorist Tania

The Patty Hearst kidnapping was one of the most frustrating and costly episodes in FBI history. It began on the evening of Feb. 4, 1974, when postdeb Patricia Campbell Hearst, 19, was abducted from the Berkeley, Calif., apartment she shared with her fiancé, Steven Ward, 23. She was carried off by a group that called itself the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) — an organization of black and white radicals whose stated goals were the destruction of the capitalist state; state control of industry by the people; the establishment of communes; and the end of all prison systems. The FBI entered… Read Full Article