Patricia Campbell Hearst

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This paper recounts the 1974 kidnapping of teenage heiress Patricia Campbell Hearst by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA). The paper briefly describes the kidnapping ordeal and what Patricia Hearst had to endure as a kidnap victim and then takes a look at her life after she was released from her kidnappers. More specifically, the paper looks at how the kidnapping and the events that transpired after the kidnapping forever changed the character, values and attitude of Patricia Campbell Hearst.

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"A teenage heiress gets kidnapped by a left-wing activists, transforms into a urban terrorist, robs a bank, gets arrested, gets convicted, and, finally, gets pardoned by President Jimmy Carter, himself. Is this a plot out of an imaginative novel? Not quite. This is what happened to Patricia Hearst on February 4th, 1974. It was a story with bizarre twists of events, which went on for 5 years while the world watched in disbelief. It would prove to be an affair that would not only changed her life, but how she viewed it. At the start of her life, and in the early kidnapping weeks, her attitude reflected her upbringing. A long two years later, after having joined the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) herself, she was captured by the FBI. It was then that Patty's family and Patty herself noticed the drastic change in her personality. The months she spent in jail, and under the American legal system, only added to her new demeanour. When she was finally free, she could still not escape the fear and vulnerability that these events had created in her. After being a part of the SLA and treated as a criminal, Patricia Hearst was changed from being a sheltered child, to a harsh realist."

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