![]() ![]() The question was always was, she coerced or did she become a believer? The jury found her guilty of bank robbery and using a firearm in a felony. A couple of weeks after that, she brandished an automatic weapon in an SLA bank robbery. In a photo that become iconic, she posed with an automatic weapon. She took the offer and in a recording released to a radio station, denounced her family and declared her allegiance to the SLA. After being blindfolded for about two months, she was offered the chance to renounce her past and become a guerrilla soldier in the SLA. ![]() ![]() In 1974, when Patty Hearst was a 19-year-old college student at Berkeley, she was kidnapped by a small, armed revolutionary group called the SLA, the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had an incoherent ideology and unclear goals. Her grandfather, powerful newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was the basis of the main character in the film "Citizen Kane." Patty Hearst was targeted because of her family and its fortune. His latest book, called "American Heiress," is about the kidnapping and trial of Patricia Hearst, which was a huge media story in the 1970s. Today's guest, Jeffrey Toobin, wrote the definitive book about the O.J. I'm David Bianculli, editor of the website TV Worth Watching, sitting in for Terry Gross. ![]()
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