Almost half a century after publishing heiress Patty Hearst was snatched from her apartment a treasure trove of questions remain about the notorious crime.
Almost half a century after publishing heiress Patty Hearst was snatched from her apartment a treasure trove of questions remain about the notorious crime.
a few days after they kidnapped patty hearst, they issued a statement communique, they called it. a letter to from the symbionese liberation army. it came in the morning mail, and basically the communique confirms that they are holding patricia hearst. the united federation forces of the symbionese liberation army armed with cyanide loaded weapons served an arrest warrant on patricia hearst. the idea that randy hearst or anyone had to read the words of the sla was horrifying. but randy was willing to do it. he was willing to do anything. because he wanted to save his daughter s life. all communications in this court must be published in full in all newspapers and all other forms of the media. failure to do so will endanger the safety of the prisoner. our demands that they print all of our communiques and read them on the news. nobody s ever seen anything like this.
but the only way i m going to is if we do it their way. and i just hope that you ll do what they say, dad, and just do it quickly. when the sla finally did make a demand, it was very much the product of the indiana recruits, the theater people. because it was a theatrical gesture that they were demanding. i didn t want to hurt anybody. we knew we could do those kind of robinhood type actions and that s what i wanted to do. my name is sin q. to my comrades i m known as sin. i hold the rank of general field marshall in the united federation forces of the symbionese liberation army. as we became more organized, it was not unusual to adopt code neighbors. defreeze called himself sin q. before any form of