Patty Hearst
Patty Hearst
Patricia Campbell Hearst, now known as Patricia Hearst-Shaw, is the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst; she became nationally known for events following her kidnapping. In 1974, while she was a 19-year-old student living in Berkeley, California, Hearst was abducted by a left-wing terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army. According to her account, after being isolated and threatened with death, she became supportive of their cause, making propaganda announcements for them and taking part in illegal...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFamily Member
Date of Birth20 February 1954
CitySan Francisco, CA
CountryUnited States of America
You know, my daughters have been through their entire lives and knowing about my case.
And, you know, like I said, I'm not looking forward to a trial.
I mean, Emily Harris was his wife.And she seemed to resent his leadership, but on the other hand, she felt like a good soldier, that he had to be the leader.
Even to me, as I was trying to tell the government what had happened, it just didn't seem to matter.
I finally figured out what my crime was. I lived. Big mistake.
There is - you know, there's receipts for rented cars and license plates and guns and hand prints and palm prints and fingerprints. You know, I want to wait until I'm in a court.
But now Americans, they felt a sense of peace and protection because they've been separated by so many thousands of miles of ocean. And you know, the fact that it's come to the U.S. like this is so sad, and yet you know, what can you do? It's here.
And, quite frankly, I fully expected to be charged with murder, because they weren't charging anybody. I did it in terms of, I felt like I was throwing down the gauntlet saying look, this is what happened. There's a family out there that needed to know what happened.
I had not seen that until - and when it first came out I was told. I had not seen or been aware of all of that physical evidence. And when I saw it, I was horrified. It was so astounding to me to see that there was that much evidence.
It's hard to know what to say about somebody like that, except there are people who look for trouble. And trouble is very easy to find when you go looking for it.
There are two other SLA members who have been granted immunity and then also, one of the SLA members had confessed to two other people, and those people, I'm sure, will be called as witnesses, as they were at the grand jury.
Through my mind, is just the horror of these people. I had been held by them, I knew how violent they were.
I think Charles Manson was a hair's breath away from just being a terrorist. He wanted to start a war, too.
And you probably remember all of those papers and documents that they had published in the newspapers. And, you know, when you look at that, it really was their own little jihad that they had going. It just wasn't taken very seriously then.