The 1930s were a time of great turmoil and transition in America. The Jazz Age had ended, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) pushed through the repeal of Prohibition, but the country was in the grip of the Great Depression. Amidst this backdrop, a new breed of criminal emerged. These were not the pseudo-businessmen of […]
The Patty Hearst Saga 50 Years Later Heiress Turned Guerrilla?
Fifty years after the sensational kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst shocked the nation, questions still linger about her transformation from victim to revolutionary. On February 4, 1974, a knock on the door of Hearst’s Berkeley, California apartment changed her life forever when members of the radical Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) abducted the 19-year-old granddaughter […]