Editing Patty Hearst (section)

==Early life ==
Hearst, who prefers to be called Patricia rather than Patty,<ref name="cnn-profile">{{cite news|url=http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/hearst/profile.html|title=Patty Hearst Profile – Radically different – Heiress' life far removed from days of '74 kidnapping|publisher=[[CNN]]|last=Zahn|first=Paula|date=April 16, 2001|access-date=July 5, 2014|archive-date=October 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181017203827/http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/hearst/profile.html|url-status=live}}</ref> was born on February 20, 1954, in [[San Francisco]], California,<ref name=cnn>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/hearst/profile.html|publisher=[[CNN]]|title=Radically different: Heiress' life far removed from days of '74 kidnapping|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120628205834/http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/people/shows/hearst/profile.html|archive-date=June 28, 2012|access-date=April 15, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Women in World History|year=2000|author1=Commire, Anne|author2=Klezmer, Deborah|publisher=Yorkin Publications|volume=7|isbn=978-0-787-64066-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist07comm/page/137 137]|url=https://archive.org/details/womeninworldhist07comm|url-access=registration}}</ref> the third of five daughters of [[Randolph Apperson Hearst]] and Catherine Wood Campbell. She was raised primarily in [[Hillsborough, California|Hillsborough]] and attended the private [[Crystal Springs Uplands School|Crystal Springs School for Girls]] there, [[Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton|Sacred Heart]] in [[Atherton, California|Atherton]], and the [[Santa Catalina School]] in [[Monterey, California|Monterey]].<ref>{{Cite magazine|date=April 29, 1974|title=CRIME: The Hearst Nightmare|language=en-US|magazine=Time|url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,911211-7,00.html|access-date=June 14, 2020|issn=0040-781X|archive-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614035116/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,911211-7,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She attended [[Menlo College]] in [[Atherton, California]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Macomber|first=Frank|title=At Menlo, Patty A Brilliant Student|newspaper=Desert Sun|date=May 22, 1974|url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19740522.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|access-date=June 14, 2020|page=A3|archive-date=June 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614035116/https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=DS19740522.2.30&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1|url-status=live}}</ref> before transferring to the [[University of California, Berkeley]]. 

Hearst's grandfather [[William Randolph Hearst]] created the largest newspaper, magazine, newsreel and film business in the world. Her great-grandmother was philanthropist [[Phoebe Hearst]]. The family wielded immense political influence and had opposed organized labor, gold mine workers' interests, and [[communism]] since before [[World War II]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Pizzitola|first=Louis|year=2002|title=Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion, and Propaganda in the Movies|location=New York|publisher=Columbia University Press|isbn=0-231-11646-2|pages=333–338}}</ref> Hearst's father was among a number of heirs to the family fortune and did not control the Hearst interests. Her parents had not considered it necessary to take preventive measures to ensure their children's personal security. At the time of her abduction, Hearst was a [[sophomore (education)|sophomore]] at Berkeley studying art history. She lived with her fiancé Steven Weed in an apartment in Berkeley.<ref name="cnn-profile"/>