February 20, 1954
Tania

Robber

Patricia Hearst, the granddaughter of newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst, gained notoriety in 1974, when she was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical group seeking to incite people to rebel against the U.S. government and corporate America. In a strange twist of events that has never been fully explained, the nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress began to sympathize with her captors.

Hearst began participating in SLA activities, including bank robberies. Caught on bank security film toting a sub-machine gun during a heist, she also drove a getaway car in a bank robbery that ended in the death of an innocent woman. Sentenced to eight years in prison, Hearst was released early and began telling her story to the world. Claiming to have been brainwashed by her captors, the woman who at one time had adopted the revolutionary name Tania rejected the SLA...