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Patty Hearst Is Kidnapped At Gunpoint

The plan was simple. Patty Hearst had gone to Menlo College in Atherton and then she had transferred to the University of California where she lived with the man she loved, Steven Weed. This left her vulnerable and the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) had a plan to take advantage of that. On February 4, 1974, members of this terrorist group attacked Hearst on campus. Patty was knocked to the ground and then beaten into unconsciousness. The details aren’t entirely clear as to what exactly happened but reports say that a machine gun was also fired during the attack.

The SLA would claim responsibility for these actions soon after…