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The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst
Berkeley, California, United StatesFebruary 4, 1974
On February 4, 1974, 19-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Two months later, she appeared in a bank robbery video wielding a weapon. She was convicted of bank robbery in 1976 but had her sentence commuted by President Carter and was pardoned by President Clinton.