Who Abducted Patty Hearst?
It was three days later when the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) who were a small U.S. leftist group took responsibility for the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. A letter was sent to Berkeley radio station stating that they were holding the young woman as a “Prisoner of war.”
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The Symbionese Liberation Army had chosen Hearst because of her family position; in the letter that was sent, it was made clear that to keep their daughter safe, the Hearst family must comply with the demands for the safe return of Patty Hearst to her family.