Patty Hearst turned 70 on Tuesday. That might not mean a great deal to some of you. But to a generation very much alive, that name should bring back some vivid memories, some images of a rifle-toting young woman who was at the center of one of the most colorful, extensively reported crimes of the last or any century. What’s she been up to? Well, she is now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw and for .
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After writing a best seller about the sinking of the Andrea Doria, he was a co-author with Richard M. Nixon, Patty Hearst, William S. Paley and others.
Patricia Hearst, the kidnap victim and newspaper heiress who later served a prison term for armed bank robbery, has revealed in a new book that she took part.
Patty Hearst, American heiress of the William Randolph Hearst media empire who was kidnapped in 1974 by leftist radicals called the Symbionese Liberation Army, whom she under duress joined in robbery and extortion. She was convicted in 1976 and released from prison three years later. She was pardoned in 2001.