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THE TAKING OF PATTY HEARST ON THIS DAY

The Patricia Hearst Trial:The Local Lawyers Remember - United States  District Court Northern District of California Historical Society

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.

Her fiancé, Steven Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a
neighbor who tried to help.

Witnesses reported seeing a struggling Hearst being carried
away blindfolded, and she was put in the trunk of a car.

Neighbors who came out into the street were forced to take
cover after the kidnappers fired their guns to cover their
escape.
          

        
        
        
        
       
45 years later, a look back at Patty Hearst's kidnapping and the radical  SLA - Local News Matters

Overland Park Man Recalls Surprise ...
Newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was identified by the FBI
as taking part in the robbery of a San Francisco bank in this
April 1974 photo.

The Patty Hearst Saga 50 Years Later Heiress Turned Guerrilla?

Patty Hearst lashes out at biographer | Page Six
Patricia Campbell Hearst will be 71 years young on
February 20th.

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FIRST SLAVES ARRIVED IN JAMESTOWN

Virginia marks pivotal moment when enslaved Africans arrived 400 years ago | WJLA

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.

Slave Resistance Primary Sources

Much of what we've been told about Virginia's 1619 first Africans is wrong - Virginia Mercury

1619: Gabriel led a Virginia slave revolt two centuries after first enslaved Africans arrived in ...

On This Day In History, The First enslaved Africans arrived in Jamestown, setting the stage for ...

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KIDNAP VICTIM FOUND ON THIS DAY IN 1932

Chronicle Covers: The discovery of the Lindbergh baby's body

Group presses legal fight for access to DNA in Lindbergh case | NJ  Spotlight News    
   
The day Charles Lindbergh's baby was kidnapped in 1932 – New York Daily News

Lindbergh Kidnapping: Through The Papers - Historic Newspapers

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.

The kidnapper had used a ladder (below) to climb up to the open
second-floor window and had left muddy footprints in the room. 

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

How the US Forest Service's Forest Products Lab Helped Solve the “Crime of  the Century” | USDA

Lindbergh baby kidnapping | History & Facts | Britannica

Not the Mother: The Relationship Between the Lindberghs and Betty Gow
Charles and Anne Morrow Lindbergh.


 

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THE PATTY HEARST INCIDENT ON THIS DAY

Patty Hearst - Most Beautiful Picture

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

Her fiancee, Steven Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a
neighbor who tried to help. Witnesses reported seeing a struggling Hearst being carried away blindfolded, and she was put in the trunk
of a car. Neighbors who came out into the street were forced to take cover after the kidnappers fired their guns to cover their escape.

Three days later, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a small
U.S. leftist group, announced in a letter to a Berkeley radio station
that it was holding Hearst as a “prisoner of war.” Four days later,
the SLA demanded that the Hearst family give $70 in foodstuffs to
every needy person from Santa Rosa to Los Angeles. This done,
said the SLA, negotiation would begin for the return of Patricia
Hearst.

February 4, 1974. Newspaper heiress Patricia "Patty" Hearst is kidnapped at gunpoint in her ...

Patricia Hearst kidnapped 70 days ago by the Symbionese Liberation Army was named as a material ...

Bernard Shaw, husband to Patty Hearst, has died of cancer | Daily Mail Online

Pin on American History

Patricia Hearst, a 50 años del secuestro que convirtió en guerrillera a una joven rica ...

Afflictor.com · Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst - Topic - YouTube
Patricia Campbell Hearst will turn 70 on February 20th.

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HOSTAGE FREED IN LEBANON ON THIS DAY

Terry A Anderson - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

On December 4, 1991, Islamic militants in Lebanon released
kidnapped American journalist Terry Anderson after 2,454
days in captivity.

As chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press,
Anderson covered the long-running civil war in Lebanon,1975- 
1990. On March 16, 1985, he was kidnapped on a west Beirut 
street while leaving a tennis court.

His captors took him to the southern suburbs of the city, where
he was held prisoner in an underground dungeon for the next
six-and-a-half years.


American hostage Terry Anderson photographed by his
captors in Lebanon on Oct. 21, 1988.

From the Global Journalist Vault: Former Hostage Terry Anderson on Press Freedom | KBIA

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Anderson being welcomed home to Lorain, Ohio on June
21, 1992.

Ex-AP Hostage Terry Anderson Back in Beirut to Teach U.S. J-Students How to Report Accurately on ...
Terry Anderson turned 76 on October 27th.

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