So imagine you are a nineteen-year-old college student, hanging out at your apartment with your boyfriend and you step into the hall. A group of people grabs you and neighbors watch as they take you out of the building and throw you into a vehicle. The reason the neighbors don’t help… these people are shooting at them just so they can take YOU. 

This is the setting of our story today. The story of Patty Hearst, an American Heiress who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small, armed revolutionary group with an incoherent ideology and unclear goals, birthed out of the crazy 1970s bombing extravaganza. Patty Hearst, who proceeded to brandish a weapon and rob a bank and was apprehended by the FBI instead of being rescued. The story of how Jolly West became one of the psychiatrists who evaluated her, wrote over 300 pages about her brainwashed condition and his impact on her trial. 

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SOURCE MATERIAL

EVERY SECRET THING Patricia Campbell Hearst with Alvin Moscow Doubleday & Company Inc. NY 1982

https://www.npr.org/2016/08/03/488373982/whose-side-was-she-on-american-heiress-revisits-patty-hearst-s-kidnapping

https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/patty-hearst

https://nybooks.com/articles/1976/06/24/no-charge/

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/patty-hearst-kidnapped

https://nybooks.com/articles/1976/04/29/the-people-v-patty-hearst/

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/02/27/archives/psychiatrist-says-he-believes-miss-hearst-on-role-in-bank-robbery.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPMacCIf11k