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Still of Robert Stone in Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst Still of Patricia Hearst in Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst Donald DeFreeze and Patty Hearst leaving the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco April 15, 1974 Symbionese Liberation Army self portrait April 1974 SLA member Russ Little under arrest January 28, 1974 Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst

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View the latest pictures, photos and images from Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst - In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent history. The kidnappers, completely off the map before Patty Hearst disappeared into the San Francisco night, were a small band of young, ferociously militant political radicals, dedicated to the rights of prisoners and the working class. They called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. Over the course of about three years they robbed banks, senselessly killed two innocent people, instigated a firefight after attempting to shoplift a pair of socks, and, most famously, converted their hostage and victim. They also achieved an undeniably visionary manipulation of the media, inciting perhaps the first modern media frenzy. Presenting resonating questions about the role of the media in America--mouthpiece? Messenger? Truth seeker...