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Symbionese Liberation Army: Patty Hearst
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Any student of recent U.S. history must be familiar with the incredible-but-true story of Patty Hearst's abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical militant fringe group. The S.L.A.'s young leadership was heavily armed and in love with silver-screen images of Robin Hood, Bonnie and Clyde and Che Guevara. Their oft-repeated motto was "Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people!" But the big question remains: what the hell does "Symbionese" mean? Was it some fictional country, the faraway land of Symbiona? Who were the Symbionese people, and why did they need liberating by an army?
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In 1974 a little-known but wealthy Berkeley undergraduate, Patricia Hearst, became a media celebrity after being kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. The kidnap victim transformed into a seemingly willing accomplice; over the months of her kidnapping, she participated in crimes, claimed allegiance to the S.L.A., and defended her captors as valiant heroes. From tape recordings, her trial testimony and own telling of the story years later, several different versions of events emerge, but there seems to be no resolution to the questions about her transformation. Her parents thought that she had been brainwashed; experts suggested that she was a victim of the Stockholm Syndrome, mistakenly identifying with her captors in an effort at self-preservation. Yet it is ... possible that Hearst repudiated her upbringing to flirt with radical terrorism.
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Randolph Hearst comments briefly to the press on the first anniversary of his daughters abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Broadcast on CBS-TV February 3, 1975. With the voice of Patricia Hearst on tape.
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By all accounts, Olsen has ... "been a model citizen in every way" since leaving the Symbionese Liberation Army and reinventing her life. Ironically, some of the evidence against Olsen is expected to come from Patty Hearst. If Hearst is pardoned, it raises questions about Olsen's own prospects for an eventual pardon.
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Patty Hearst was a wealthy young heiress with no political affiliations when she was kidnapped in 1974 by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a left-wing American terrorist group founded in 1973. The kidnapping itself fascinated Americans, but Hearst's case grew even stranger when she joined the SLA during her captivity, taking the name Tania and denouncing her former life.
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