![]() ![]() ![]() MONTAGNE: Sketch out for us who this group was. And the only thing she knows about the SLA was that they had just killed the Oakland school superintendent. JEFFREY TOOBIN: You cannot overstate the terror that Patty Hearst faced - kidnapped, stuffed in a trunk, put in a closet. Jeffrey Toobin has written a new book about the kidnapping called "American Heiress." Hearst later said she was raped and tormented by her captors, too scared to disobey them or leave. MONTAGNE: Tania participated in bank robberies - one deadly - and bombings. On April 15, my comrades and I expropriated. HEARST: Greetings to the people, this is Tania. MONTAGNE: Barely two months later, this communication came from Hearst's new revolutionary alter ego. Now, they sent out a cassette of their captive. It had already assassinated the superintendent of Oakland schools in the name of the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA. Then, in '74, she was kidnapped from her Berkeley student apartment by a tiny radical group. Is it Patty or Tania? Patty was Patricia Hearst of the Hearst family, granddaughter of the newspaper tycoon who inspired the movie "Citizen Kane." Raised by socialite parents, Patricia's great rebellion had been to refuse to be a debutante. ![]() Back in 1974, all of America had a question. ![]()
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