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
I became as much of a believer as I was capable of becoming.
You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.
People who've never gone hunting have a tendency to look down on hunters and act like they're out killing Bambi's father.
There's always some days you wish things had never happened, like you'd never been born, that sort of thing but I'm not the kind of person anyway that can just sit around and say, "gee, I wish that never happened." I don't ever do that. There's no point. That is a total and complete waste of time.
And here in Los Angeles, once again, I'm going to go down and be a witness. There's a guilty plea. I don't mind being on the witness stand, but I think they mind it a lot.
I got hit in the face with a gun. I'm not very fragile at all. It makes me think maybe things would be easier if I were terribly frail and fragile somehow.
And for any victim of a violent crime, when you actually get to go in and realize and see their faces and know that they can't hurt you any more, there is no feeling like that. It finally frees you from a lot of demons.
For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.
Well, you know, it's really been, you know, quite a trip for me.
Well, you know, they were - they were a terrorist group. They - when I was kidnapped they published all of their statements about their war that they declared on the United States.
I'm a coward, I didn't want to die.
Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?
In George W. Bush's latest reincarnation, he claims to be Reagan-like. Mr. Bush, I know Ronald Reagan. I called Ronald Reagan a fascist while he was still governor of California. And Mr. Bush, you are no Ronald Reagan.