February 5: Reporters gather at the Hearst family's mansion in a wealthy San Francisco suburb, Hillsborough, to follow the kidnapping story and interview Patty's parents. February 6: A letter ...

Patty Hearst's ancestors, like many California settlers, had come overland from the Midwest. Her great-grandfather, George Hearst, was a Missouri farmer and prospector with a nose for minerals.

When kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst's voice was transmitted on Radio KPFK in 1974, it wasn't the desperate plea for freedom many expected. Instead, she delivered a searing tribute to her fallen ...

This intriguing documentary attempts to uncover the truth about the media heiress's 1974 abduction by the Symbionese Liberation Army. After weeks of incarceration, she joined her captors and was ...

Staffers had seen him plenty of times before, swilling martinis at Bemelmans with his best friend, Patty's daughter Gillian Hearst, and getting his silky blond locks coiffed by his hairdresser at ...

This video explores the survival story of Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old heiress of a media empire who was kidnapped by an urban guerrilla group in California in the 1970s. She became an icon of ...

“Death to the fascist insect that preys upon the life of the people.” With this hyperbolic declaration by “General Field Marshall” Cinque M’tume (the nom-de-plume of a Black prison escapee), the ...