BRIAN THOMAS

In Beirut, Lebanon, Islamic militants kidnapped American journalist
Terry Anderson and take him to the southern suburbs of the war-
torn city, where other Western hostages are being held in scattered dungeons under ruined buildings.

On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter
of newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped
from her apartment in Berkeley, Cal, by three armed strangers.

Patricia Campbell Hearst will be 71 years young on
February 20th.

On or about August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped
by the Portuguese, arrived in the British colony of Virginia and
are then bought by English colonists.

The exact date is not definitively known (a letter from the time
identified the ship’s arrival coming in "the latter part of August"),
but this date has been chosen by many to mark the arrival of the enslaved Africans in the New World—beginning two and a half
centuries of slavery in North America.

The body of aviation hero Charles Lindbergh’s baby was found
on May 12, 1932, more than two months after he was kidnapped
from his family’s Hopewell, New Jersey, mansion.

Lindbergh, who became the first worldwide celebrity five years
earlier when he flew The Spirit of St. Louis across the Atlantic,
and his wife Anne Morrow Lindbergh discovered a ransom note
in their 20-month-old child’s empty room on March 1.

In barely legible English, the ransom note (below) demanded
$50,000. The crime captured the attention of the entire nation.

Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.