Patricia Hearst

Biography

Patricia Campbell Hearst was born on February 20, 1954, in San Francisco, California, to Randolph Apperson Hearst and Catherine Wood Campbell. Her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) in 1974 sparked a national debate about her involvement with the group, which she later claimed she had been coerced into. She was convicted of bank robbery and served time before being pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001.