[nickcarraway]

[9thLife]

How does one celebrate the 39th anniversary of the day one was convicted of armed robbery and use of a firearm to commit a felony?

This story is about a lot of things, but it is most definitely not about using a firearm to commit a felony.

[2ndDivisionVet]

The SLA is still around. Now they’re called ANSWER, ACORN, Black Lives Matter, Occupy and the DNC.

[dainbramaged]

I remember it well - including the audio tape manifesto Patty made calling her family the “Pig Hearsts”, plus demanding free groceries for the ghetto folks.

[Calvin Locke]

Other jurors described Hearst as "remote" and "baffling." We didn't know "whether we were looking at a live girl or a robot,"

I've seen her on a talk show or two, not to mention some John Waters stuff. I don't think she's change much since then. At least not up to her earliest acting and novel writing attempts, personality-wise that is. There is some humor in her.

Haven't paid all that much attention since last seeing her in "Pecker".

Thankfully, she's not gone back to robbing banks, that I know of, anyway.

[lowbridge]

According to patty in her autobiography, she believes the firearm she was carrying in the robbery was rendered inoperative before her confederates gave it to her. Probably because they didnt as of yet trust her with a working firearm.

[Squawk 8888]

I’m quite certain that she was in on her own “kidnapping”. In Italy this practice was quite common at the time; rich kids would join the Red Brigades and have themselves kidnapped as a way to raise money for them.

[catnipman]

“Hearst was eventually sentenced to seven years in prison, but then-President Jimmy Carter commuted that to time served in February 1979. All in all, she served twenty-two months. Years later, on his last day in office, Bill Clinton granted her a full pardon.”

And because she is a super-rich elite, the regular laws imposed on we peasants don’t apply to her.

[Star Traveler]

That was an interesting story back then!

[iowamark]

Patty Hearst’s mother was a friend of Ronald Reagan. They certainly made a serious mistake in picking Flea Bailey as her attorney. I believe that she was a classic Stockholm Syndrome brainwashing victim.

[clearcarbon]

"39 Years Ago Today, Patty Hearst Was Convicted Of Armed Robbery"

She's done TV series and movies including a John Water flick called Pecker with Edward Furlong and Christina Ricci.

[llevrok]

I saw at the Westminster Dog Show last month that she was part owner of one of the breed champions...

[Maine Mariner]

I would like to know what happened to her boy friend (and teacher) Steve Weed. He was injured trying to protect her.

[SamAdams76]

In 1974, I was 12 years old and just beginning to follow the news. I remember following the Patty Hearst story in the papers as it was all going down. The kidnapping, the manhunt and then the shock of learning that she threw in with her captors and started robbing banks.

That whole Patty Hearst episode was a wild ride. The tabloids sensationalized that like you wouldn't believe. It was the "O.J" story of the 1970s.