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Sep 2025
1h 5m

The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst (Part 1)

Ash Kelley & Alaina Urquhart
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When nineteen-year-old Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her apartment in February 1974, everyone assumed the heiress had been abducted for the purposes of ransom. However, in the days that followed, Hearst’s kidnappers, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), made themselves known when they sent a letter demanding the Hearst family provide food to every needy f ... Show More
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