Editing Patty Hearst (section)

===Kidnapping===
On February 4, 1974, 19-year-old Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment. A small [[urban guerrilla warfare|urban guerrilla]] left-wing group called the [[Symbionese Liberation Army]] (SLA) claimed responsibility for the abduction.<ref name="fbi-famous">{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/patty-hearst-kidnapping|website=FBI.gov|title=Patty Hearst Kidnapping|access-date=April 15, 2014|archive-date=April 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140423001815/http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/history/famous-cases/patty-hearst-kidnapping|url-status=live}}</ref> Hearst's kidnapping was partly opportunistic, as she resided near the SLA hideout. According to testimony at trial, the group's main intention was to leverage the [[Hearst family]]'s political influence to free SLA members Russ Little and [[Joe Remiro]], who had been arrested for the November 1973 murder of [[Marcus Foster]], superintendent of Oakland public schools.{{citation needed|date=August 2023}}

After the state refused to free the men, the SLA demanded that Hearst's family distribute $70 worth of food to every needy Californian, an operation that would cost an estimated $400 million. In response, Hearst's father obtained a loan and arranged the immediate donation of $2 million worth of food to the poor of the [[San Francisco Bay Area|Bay Area]] for one year in a project called People in Need. After the distribution descended into chaos, the SLA refused to release Hearst.<ref name="Patrick Mondout">{{cite web |url=http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/News/Special-Reports/Terrorism/SLA/Chronology.asp |title=SLA Chronology |access-date=January 21, 2007 |last=Patrick Mondout |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080420055116/http://www.super70s.com/Super70s/News/Special-Reports/Terrorism/SLA/Chronology.asp |archive-date=April 20, 2008 }}</ref>

According to Hearst's testimony at her 1976 trial, she was held for a week in a closet, blindfolded and with her hands tied. During this time, SLA founder Cinque ([[Donald DeFreeze]]) repeatedly threatened her with death.<ref name="law2.umkc.edu">{{cite web|title=Excerpt of Cross-Examination of Defendant, Patty Hearst|work=Selected Trial Transcript Excerpts in the Patty Hearst Trial|url=http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hearst/hearstranscriptexcerpts.html|access-date=December 30, 2014|archive-date=March 6, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150306033237/http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/hearst/hearstranscriptexcerpts.html|url-status=live}}</ref> She was allowed to leave the closet for meals, still blindfolded, and began to participate in the group's political discussions. She was given a flashlight for reading and SLA political tracts to memorize. Hearst was confined in the closet for weeks. She said, "DeFreeze told me that the war council had decided or was thinking about killing me or me staying with them, and that I better start thinking about that as a possibility. ... I accommodated my thoughts to coincide with theirs."<ref name="law2.umkc.edu"/> In an April 1974 account, Hearst claimed that she had been offered the choice of being released or joining the SLA.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/04/archives/miss-hearst-says-she-joins-terrorists-patricia-hearst-says-she-has.html|title=Miss Hearst Says She Joins Terrorists|last=Caldwell|first=Earl|date=April 4, 1974|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 16, 2020|archive-date=October 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201012052347/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/04/04/archives/miss-hearst-says-she-joins-terrorists-patricia-hearst-says-she-has.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

When asked for her decision, Hearst elected to remain and fight with the SLA. The blindfold was removed, allowing her to see her captors for the first time. After this, she was given daily lessons on her duties, especially weapon drills. [[Angela Atwood]] told Hearst that the others wanted Hearst to share in the sexual freedom within the unit. Hearst later claimed to have been raped by [[Willie Wolfe|William "Willie" Wolfe]] and DeFreeze.<ref name="law2.umkc.edu"/><ref>{{cite news|location=San Francisco|title=Patty Hearst describes closet rape by captors|newspaper=Bangor Daily News|date=February 18, 1976}}</ref><ref name="transcripts.cnn.com">{{cite web |work=CNN |date=January 22, 2002 |author=Larry King Live |title=Interview with Patty Hearst – Transcript |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/22/lkl.00.html |access-date=December 31, 2014 |archive-date=October 25, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025155630/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0201/22/lkl.00.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Documentary">{{cite web|title=1974 news report on Hearst's Berkeley kidnapping|work=NBC news|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dateline/32129289#32130639|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150101053948/http://www.nbcnews.com/video/dateline/32129289|archive-date=January 1, 2015}}</ref>