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>> cujo became pattys -- i dont know if you could call him protector, boyfriend, the principle person she had sex with. its very hard to know under those circumstances what their relationship was all about. >> following the fiery standoff, patty hearst and the harrises head back to san francisco as the only surviving members of the sla. >> most people didnt want to help them because, you know, they clearly now, just seen on tv what happens if you are around the sla, nobody wants that. but a new ...

Wasnt a cell phone, there wasnt a computer, there were no atm machines. people really could drive across the country and change their life, and did, all the time. >> while law enforcement and the media searched for the fugitives, the group practices military-style drills at their pennsylvania safe house. >> they went back to their own games of guerilla tactics and target practice and posturing, you know, with guns. in the countryside. that went on for some time until they decided that they reall...

Everything from my upbringing was trying to make me declare allegiance to my parents values and ideas. it was during my last year of high school that i met steven weed. while part of me was plotting my escape from this relationship, the other part of me was smiling for engagement pictures. i thought steve would change my name and rescue me from being a hearst. >> we never found any evidence she communicated with her family. it was perfectly plausible that the harrises and hearst could have disap...

Hearst was involved in the shoot-out of a sporting goods store in los angeles. >> patty and the harrises, bill and emily, had been sent out to purchase some supplies for the others. they had left patricia hearst sitting alone in a van. >> the harrises tried to shoplift a couple of things out of that store in l.a. called mels sporting goods. in the course of shoplifting, the store guard wrestled with bill harris. >> and patty saw this commotion across the street. she could have turned the engine ...

Yeah. absolutely. they were it. >> there was a rally in berkley in honor of the dead sla members and there was a woman named kathleen soliah that now declared herself to be a member of the sla. >> i am with you. we are with you. >> right on! >> the harrises and patty were able to connect up with soliah and her whole group of people. >> according to bortin, patty hearst introduces herself to him not as a brainwashed victim but as a full-fledged member of the sla. >> she didnt seem distant or nost...

Harrises, patricia hearst, wendy yoshimura, james kilgore and michael bortin. that was the new sla. >> we were all pretty enthusiastic about it. this is too good to be true, you know? >> as the new sla takes shape, an intense manhunt for their most famous convert forces the group to keep a low profile. >> they couldnt really go out and get jobs or, you know, function in society. they always had to be kind of alert and careful. they were on the lam. they were the most wanted people in the country...

Firing. >> it was just a reaction. it happened so fast. >> without hesitation, ms. hearst picked up not one but two automatic weapons and sprayed the front of mels sporting goods store with bullets. why? to rescue the harrises. >> after that, i dont think anybody had any questions that for whatever reason, she had become part of the sla. after the shootout at the sporting goods store, they abandoned the car they were in shortly there afterwards because

The group, patty and the harrises head out of the bay area toward the east coast. >> after that, nobody knew where they were. we tried to find out. they just went dormant because, as it turned out, they went to pennsylvania. nobody knew they were there. >> for a long time, they holed up at this farmhouse in pennsylvania and patty hearst wrote the tania autobiography where she gave her version of events. >> pattys memoir contains details of her conversion to the sla. in words she would later repu...

The u.s. the incident is under investigation. at least three people are dead after a boat carrying immigrants from pakistan and afghanistan sank off the italian coast. dozens were rescued and teams are still searching for survivors. now back to "the kidnapping of patty hearst." despite the investigation, there has been absolutely no trace of the missing newspaper heiress. >> summer 1975, over a year after her kidnapping, patty hearst and the harrises hide out in separate san francisco houses...