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World Service,08 Apr 2010,9 mins

The Rebel Heiress

Witness History

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In 1974 the American public was gripped by the news of Patty Hearst's kidnap. But there was shock when it became evident that the American heiress and joined her captor's cause. She was even captured on a security camera, waving a gun, as the Symbionese Liberation Army raided a bank in San Francisco.

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