2. Patricia Hearst
In 1974, 19-year-old heiress Patricia Hearst was abducted from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a radical group aiming to incite a guerrilla war against the U.S. government. During her captivity, Hearst was reportedly subjected to physical and psychological abuse, leading her to adopt the name “Tania” and publicly support the SLA’s cause. In April 1974, she participated in a bank robbery with the SLA, an act that sparked national debate over her level of coercion and the psychological effects of captivity. After 19 months on the run, Hearst was arrested in September 1975, convicted of bank robbery, and sentenced to seven years in prison. President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence in 1979, and she was later pardoned by President Bill Clinton in 2001 (fbi.gov).
