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Patty Hearst  

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  • Patty Hearst, the heiress to the Hearst newspaper empire, is best known as a kidnapping victim turned terrorist. As a member of a small, leftist terrorist group in California, Hearst, along with her kidnappers, went to prison in 1976 for bank robbery. [Source: The SAGE Encyclopedia of Terrorism; Hearst, Patty (1954–)]

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