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180: Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst


On February 4, 1974, 19-year-old Patty Hearst, heiress to the Hearst Newspaper fortune, was kidnapped from her Berklee apartment. The kidnappers were a group of young Americans calling themselves The Symbionese Liberation Army--a group dedicated to the violent overthrow of the US government. What resulted was America's first media frenzy. And things only got crazier when Patty became "Tania" and joined the ranks of the SLA.

 


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