Dennis Richmond on 40 years broadcasting news May 17, 2008
So do covering the Patty Hearst trial and reporting on the '89 quake from the KTVU parking lot when the station's power went out ... Jan. 1976 - Covered Patty Hearst trial in Sacramento. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Lifes McDreamy Apr 23, 2008
I feel much like what Patty Hearst must have gone through, with the Symbionese Liberation Front, back in the 70s. . (MSNBC -- News)
The Fives: Requiem for two singers, two artists and the father of 'the butterfly effect' Apr 23, 2008
A premier courtroom artist who for four decades chronicled numerous high-profile trials, she drew the likes of Charles Manson, Patty Hearst and O.J. Simpson. Ritz got her start with the infamous McCarthy hearings in the 1950s, and eventually had her work featured regularly on network TV and on AP wires. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Rosalie Ritz, 84, artist at high-drama trials Apr 22, 2008
Rosalie Ritz drew the images of such defendants as Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, and O.J. Simpson ... LOS ANGELES - Rosalie Ritz, a premier courtroom artist who for four decades chronicled dozens of high-drama trials, including those of Charles Manson, Patty Hearst, and O.J. Simpson, has died. (Boston Globe)
At City Hall, neatness counts Apr 9, 2008
Judd described the fierce fifth-grade book report battle (pitting his own analysis of "My Search for Patty Hearst" by Steven Weed against classmate Mary Applebaum's treatise on "Little Women"); his theory of marriage ("No matter whom you marry, you're always going to wind up with her sister"); and praised his gay CPA for getting him a refund and a (Monica). It was dirty, it was silly, it was a swell $10-buck-a-seat party, and bravo, James Judd. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Cosco Busan spill anything but pilot's fault Apr 7, 2008
Sara Jane Olson, a member of the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army, associated with the kidnap of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst in the 1970s, was mistakenly paroled from prison on March 17, 2008. On March 22, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation returned Olson to prison. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Opinion)
Investigative Journalism Still Thriving in Albany Apr 3, 2008
One myth holds that Hearst officials built the stone-like wall around the place in the 1970s after Patty Hearst was kidnapped, to guard against any terrorist actions. Editor Rex Smith's glass-walled office sits in the middle of the first-floor newsroom, providing easy access to him for those seeking his guidance and allowing him to be close to staffers. (MediaWeek.com)
Gas Prices Fuel Trucker Strike Apr 3, 2008
Some may remember the Patty Hearst kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army in 1974 where a ransom of millions of dollars was demanded in the form of food handouts. The ransom was finally paid in tractor-trailer loads of foodstuffs that were delivered to designated food market parking lots in California. (Newsmax)
SHE DESERVES FAR WORSE Mar 28, 2008
Olson, nee Kathleen Soliah, was one of the few survivors of the Symbionese Liberation Army - the folks who snatched Patty Hearst; many later died in a fiery shootout. She went on the lam in 1975 after being charged in the pipe bombing of two police cars and a bank robbery that left an innocent bystander dead. (New York Post -- Opinions)
Olson arrested after release blamed on error Mar 24, 2008
Three months later the SLA kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, 19, in her Berkeley apartment. Hearst was quickly absorbed into the SLA.. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Hearst gang woman back in prison Mar 23, 2008
The group became famous for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patty Hearst in 1974. Olson then went on the run for almost a quarter of a century, marrying and living undetected in Minnesota. (BBC News -- Americas)
Ex-'70s radical free for 5 days on clerical error Mar 23, 2008
The SLA is best known for its 1974 kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. A parole board hearing in 2004 reduced the sentence related to the attempted bombing charge, but "an administrative error failed to take into account" the second-degree murder charge for the shooting death, Kernan said. (SportsIllustrated.CNN -- NBA)
Sara Jane Olson rearrested Mar 23, 2008
The Symbionese Liberation Army was a paramilitary group of self-styled radicals that attracted international attention for crimes that included the murder of the superintendent of the Oakland schools and the kidnapping of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. The SLA's leaders took the name "Symbionese" from the word "symbiosis." It was meant to describe the group's concept of "living in deep and loving harmony." The SLA had only 13 members, according to multiple reports. (Los Angeles Times)
1970s radical freed from US jail Mar 22, 2008
The group became famous for kidnapping newspaper heiress Patty Hearst in 1974. Olson also pleaded guilty to the second degree murder of a woman during a 1975 bank raid. (BBC News -- Americas)
California: Former SLA member Sara Jane Olson freed Mar 22, 2008
In 2001, Olson pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted bombings of Los Angeles police cars in 1975 for the SLA, the urban guerrilla group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst. Olson also pleaded guilty in 2003 to second-degree murder in connection with the 1975 shooting death of a customer during a bank robbery in Carmichael, near Sacramento, and was serving a concurrent, six-year sentence in that case. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
J. Allison Conley, FBI investigator on famous abductions Mar 10, 2008
In the late 1960s and mid-1970s, Mr. Conley played supervisory roles in the cases involving the abductions of Barbara Jane Mackle, the heiress who spent three days underground in a fiberglass box, and Patty Hearst, the newspaper publishing magnate's daughter who ultimately joined her captors from the Symbionese Liberation Army. Throughout a 30-year career, and later as a security consultant and private investigator, Mr. Conley most enjoyed interviewing and talking to people. (Boston Globe)
Some Clinton Pardon Papers Released Mar 8, 2008
Former first lady Rosalynn Carter asked Clinton to offer clemency to Patty Hearst Shaw, who was kidnapped in the 1970s by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army, then joined the group and helped rob a bank. "I'm sure you know her history. She made a mistake, but she has led an exemplary life for more than 20 years now," Carter said in a handwritten note to Clinton on Jan. 10, 2001. (Click2Houston, TX)
Veronica Loses Her Villa Feb 26, 2008
Tuesday, February 26, 2008 Last Update: 06:55 AM EST. OSCAR WHISPERED RIGHT INTO MY EAR. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Manalapan mansion of Hearst's widow sold in foreclosure auction Feb 26, 2008
It lent over the past two years slightly more than $40 million to Veronica Hearst, stepmom to famous kidnap victim Patty Hearst. Incidentally, golf great Greg Norman was lurking at the back of the intimate crowd during the sale but didn't bid. (The Palm Beach Post)
Auctioned Hearst mansion fetches $22M Feb 26, 2008
It lent slightly more than $40 million during the past two years to Veronica Hearst, stepmother of famous kidnapping victim Patty Hearst. Her husband, Randolph "Randy" Hearst, was the last of the five sons of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. (The Palm Beach Post)
Lydia's Castle Feb 22, 2008
LYDIA'S CASTLE - New York Post. Friday, February 22, 2008 Last Update: 07:00 AM EST. (New York Post -- Gossip)
'A Person of Interest': Intriguing but too intricate Feb 19, 2008
In her second novel, American Woman, a finalist for the 2004 Pulitzer Prize, Choi fictionalized the Patty Hearst saga. In Person of Interest, we're reminded of the Unabomber (Ted Kaczynski and his anti-technology rampage ended in the 1990s) and Wen Ho Lee, a Taiwanese-born American scientist who was accused of stealing secrets about the USA's nuclear arsenal in 1999. (USA Today -- Life)
Review: Peter Carey's 'Illegal Self' Feb 19, 2008
Inevitably, the characters evoke storied figures from the counterculture - Che Guevara and the socialist revolution, Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, Diana Oughton and her West Village basement bomb factory. From this, Carey takes a daring imaginative leap: What if Patty Hearst, on the run with the S.L.A., had had a baby in her arms, along with her machine gun. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Viagra introduces its latest celebrity backer: the devil Feb 14, 2008
More than three decades have passed since Patty Hearst became even more famous than her name when she was kidnapped by a radical leftist group in California, only to show up several weeks later, helping her captors rob a bank. Wednesday, 13 February 2008. (Yahoo News -- Men's Health)
Letters to Louis Feb 14, 2008
Is this Patty Hearst reference working OK. Am I secretly a baby boomer. (Daily Iowan, IA)
Uno the beagle becomes the toast of Westminster Feb 13, 2008
Also in the building: Patty Hearst and How to Look Good Naked reality show host Carson Kressley. Far, far removed from the days when her image as a machine gun-toting revolutionary captivated a nation, Patricia Hearst Shaw was in more genteel surroundings. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Patty Hearst wins with French bulldog at Westminster dog show Feb 12, 2008
Patty Hearst was kidnapped in 1974 as a 19-year-old by the radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army. "There, there," Patty Hearst said ... "You're kidding. Is she the Patty Hearst?" McGavic asked. (CNN -- International)
132nd Westminster Dog Show: Uno is first beagle to win hound category Feb 12, 2008
Patricia Hearst Shaw, better known as Patty Hearst, earned a red ribbon with her French bulldog Diva as Best of Opposite Sex -- a male dog won the breed, and hers was judged the top female. The granddaughter of William Randolph Hearst gained her greatest notoriety in 1974 when, as a 19-year-old, she was kidnapped by the radical group the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA -- Sports)
Flashes of mastery from Peter Carey Feb 9, 2008
His father burned his draft card on television and his mother Susan was a well-heeled Radcliffe girl who went the way of Patty Hearst. When Susan seemed to endanger her one-year-old boy at a Vietnam protest, sole custody was awarded to the grandmother, who raised "Jay" lovingly in the lap of luxury. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Terror remembrances of bombs past Feb 4, 2008
We tend to reduce them to a set of visual clichs, to Patty Hearst and Aldo Moro and hairy kids posing for security cameras products of their moment, with nothing to teach us today. In their mad streak across America and Europe from 1970 to 1975, groups such as the Weather Underground, Red Army Faction and Red Brigades generated a sense among ordinary people and elected leaders that a new war was afoot. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Winter Books Feb 1, 2008
(Patty Hearst is never mentioned, but if you don't recognize her SLA nom de guerre, chances are this book isn't for you. Rarely have the rules of narrative been more imaginatively ignoredthe book is full of guest lists for parties that never happened, urban guerrilla fashion tips, and a glimpse at what a truly revolutionary sex-toy catalog would look like. (Slate)
Woman who tried to kill Gerald Ford leaves jail Jan 2, 2008
Paradoxically, she first came into contact with the violent ideology of splinter left groups when she was working as a volunteer on behalf of a charity set up by the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst as part of his negotiations with the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical group that had kidnapped his daughter, Patty Hearst. The experience brought Moore under the sway of the SLA, though at the same time she began working as an occasional informant for the FBI. In her private life she... (Guardian Unlimited)
Conspiracy theories Dec 14, 2007
"Ghost" was made by Robert Stone, who also directed the documentary "Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst." Mark Samels, executive producer of "American Experience," will be on hand tonight to introduce the program. 7 p.m. Free. (Boston Globe)
Bonds pleads not guilty Dec 8, 2007
Afterward, in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building, where the trials of Patty Hearst and those responsible for the Jonestown Massacre were once heard, Bonds' new lead attorney told reporters that his celebrity client was ready for a fight. "Almost everything we have to say about this case we'll say in court papers, which we will file over the coming months," said Allen Ruby, a high-powered San Francisco Bay Area criminal defense lawyer who joined Bonds' defense team this week. (MLB.com -- San Francisco Giants)
Media frenzy expected at high-profile trial Dec 7, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO - From Patty Hearst to the Jonestown Massacre, the Phillip Burton Federal Building has hosted its share of high-profile trials over the years. But they may all pale in comparison to the spectacle of the Barry Bonds perjury case. (MSNBC -- Sports)
Experts: Bonds to have tough time in perjury case Dec 7, 2007
The same courthouse where Patty Hearst appeared three decades ago is the site of Barry Bonds' perjury and obstruction of justice case. The baseball star is scheduled to appear on Friday morning. (USA Today -- Sports)
Read on... Dec 5, 2007
Patty Hearst, I can almost understand her empathy towards her kidnappers and her willingness to join them. almost. (Variety)
Forbes ranks "intriguing" heiresses Nov 19, 2007
Amanda Hearst, Daughter of Anne Hearst, niece of Patty Hearst, $8. 7 billion. (Xinhuanet, China)
Murder, he wrote Oct 28, 2007
While hippies preached free love in San Francisco, the SLA was kidnapping Patty Hearst and murdering Oakland school officials with bullets dipped in cyanide. It was also Bailey's home town. (Guardian Unlimited)
Drought; Vick; lottery's cha-ching Oct 19, 2007
Patty Hearst was kidnapped. The now-common supermarket price code was scanned for the first time. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
Full Story Oct 18, 2007
HEARST WIDOW ESTATE DEFAULT. Thursday, October 18, 2007 Last Update: 06:35 AM EDT. (New York Post -- Gossip)
NASHVILLE SKYLINE: Songs of Tragedy and Disaster Sep 21, 2007
Country singer Red River Dave McEnery penned epic songs about such events as the murder of actress Sharon Tate with "The California Hippy Murders," newspaper heiress Patty Hearst's kidnapping in "The Ballad of Patty Hearst" and the nuclear meltdown scare in "The Ballad of Three-Mile Island." But his greatest fame came with his epic song about the disappearance of a famed aviatrix. He sang "Amelia Earhart's Last Flight" on one of the first commercial TV broadcasts from the New York World's Fair... (VHI.com -- CMT.com Music News)
Dealers are betting Aug 29, 2007
According to court documents, the mother of kidnapping victim Patty Hearst defaulted on nearly $33 million in mortgages and loans that came due in April and June. Hearst bought the sprawling mansion from mall magnate Mel Simon for a Palm Beach County record $29. (The Palm Beach Post)
Vantage Point: Two players, only one king Aug 6, 2007
In 1974, sports were still a diversion, whether from Watergate or the Patty Hearst kidnapping or even the divorce of Sonny and Cher. The at-bats of Bonds aren't an escape. (International Herald Tribune)
Brush With Paralysis Refocuses the Work of a Salisbury Artist Jul 13, 2007
Within a year of the accident her work was featured at the Wingspread Gallery in Maine and in 1999 she showed at what was then the O. Kelley Anderson Fine Arts gallery in New York City in a show entitled, "Portraits: New Yorkers and Others." She painted a watercolor of Patty Hearst and a portrait of New York City Mayor Edward I. Koch, which she added to her already impressive list of clients that included writer George Plimpton. Her career was doing as well as ever, but the fifth anniversary of... (Litchfield County Times, CT)
Bush Won't Rule Out Libby Pardon Jul 4, 2007
"It is a very severe penalty. By commuting Libbys sentence instead of pardoning him, the president is trying to have it both ways, says CBS News legal analyst Andrew Cohen. The conservative base gets what it wants and the president still can try to make the pitch that by refusing to do a pardon he's still giving some deference and respect to the jury's verdict and to the trial judge, says Cohen. Pardons, which wipe away the conviction, are relatively common, reports CBS News senior White... (CBS News)
Will jail straighten out Paris? Jun 6, 2007
June 5, 2007 Paris Hilton has joined an elite club (natch) of celebrity women like Martha Stewart and Patty Hearst who enjoyed a very public stay at a government facility. Never one to miss a party, Hilton turned herself in to Los Angeles County authorities late Sunday night after living it up at the MTV Movie Awards. (Newsday -- Entertainment)
Paris remodels as the karate kid May 14, 2007
Hilton has also received invaluable advice on how to survive behind bars by bank-robbing rich kid Patty Hearst. TV reports say Hearst is prepping Hilton on all the do's and don'ts of prison protocol. (Daily Telegraph)
Hilton gets advice from hard-time Hearst May 14, 2007
Jail-bound Paris Hilton has been getting tips from one of the few people in the world who can relate to her situation media heiress Patty Hearst. The 51-year-old granddaughter of media magnate William Randolph Hearst shot to international notoriety over 30 years ago when she took part in a bank robbery with the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical activist group. (Ninemsn)
Paris Is 'learning' With Patty's Help May 13, 2007
PARIS IS 'LEARNING' WITH PATTY'S HELP - Pagesix - New York Post Online Edition. Sunday, May 13, 2007 Last Update: 08:55 AM EDT. (New York Post -- Gossip)
Talking Business: Star-struck city treasures National Treasure’ May 3, 2007
And the following night, actor Justin Bartha and girlfriend Lydia Hearst (fashion model and daughter of Patty Hearst) got a tour of Reptile Gardens, as well. Bartha, who plays Nicolas Cage s sidekick in this film as well as the original National Treasure, has an interest in reptiles, Brockelsby said. (Rapid City Journal, SD)
A decades-old murder mystery in Saginaw Apr 30, 2007
Patty Hearst had just been kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, and the Watergate scandal was near its peak. And an hours drive from that lakefront honeymoon cottage, in the gritty factory town of Saginaw, Michigan lived a beautiful young woman named Cheryl Miller. (MSNBC -- Crime)
For oddball Waters, art exaggerates life Apr 24, 2007
His felon fetish explains why he cast kidnap victim-bank robber Patty Hearst in many of his films, including 2000's Cecil B. Demented. When it comes to spousal slayings, though, he didn't share the public fascination with pregnant Laci Peterson and husband Scott. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Sentence restored for former SLA member who tried to bomb LAPD Apr 14, 2007
A woman who helped members of the urban guerrilla group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and then hid for years by posing as an ordinary housewife had a year restored to the sentence she is serving for trying to bomb police cars, according to court papers obtained Friday. In 2001 Sara Jane Olson, formerly known as Kathleen Soliah, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the attempted bombings of police cars in 1975 for the Symbionese Liberation Army. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Former SLA member's sentence restored Apr 14, 2007
LOS ANGELES A California woman who helped members of the urban guerrilla group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst and then posed for years as an ordinary housewife will serve a full sentence for trying to bomb police cars. The state Board of Prison Terms had reduced Sara Jane Olson's 14-year sentence by a year after the former Palmdale resident made a successful appeal. (KRNV.com, NV)
Comment: Marina Hyde Apr 7, 2007
So pliant did the 15 appear in their nightly media outings that it was not long before tactfully bemused commentators were raising the possibility of Stockholm syndrome, presumably casting Leading Seaman Faye Turney in the Patty Hearst role, with the iconic black beret replaced by a hijab in this version. More worthy of serious consideration, though, is the fact that several former senior military figures have taken the step of speaking out against the charges of luminous heroism. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Richard Gere is a man with a scam in The Hoax Apr 2, 2007
But it was all a sham, one of those 70s stories, like those of D.B. Cooper and Patty Hearst, which helped spin that decade's skewed pop-cultural compass. Irving was merely a shyster who forged notes from Hughes and kept telling more outrageous lies - and, amazingly, kept getting more outrageous amounts of money - until Hughes himself denounced it all in his first live public proclamation in 14 years (and his last ever; he died in 1976). (The Star Online, Malaysia)
George W. Bush Mar 28, 2007
pardoned 140 , including Patty Hearst, a revolutionary; his brother Roger, who had a fondness for ; and former director John Deutch, who found it difficult to leave classified information in the George Bush Center for Intelligence. Chief Justice William Rehnquist, wearing his tacky Gilbert and Sullivan-inspired , which , swore in George W. Bush, whom he himself appointed president of the. (Harper's Magazine)
11 THINGS: 1979 Mar 23, 2007
Patty Hearst: Then-President Carter commutes her sentence on Feb. 1, 1979. She later moves to Connecticut and begins appearing in a variety of John Waters films. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Plan would limit new privilege to those in U.S. legally Mar 14, 2007
Soliah who along with a small band of Bay Area radicals took in Bill and Emily Harris and Patty Hearst, the last surviving members of the Symbionese Liberation Army following a 1974 shootout in Los Angeles had been on the run since the three SLA "soldiers" were captured in September 1975. Initially charged with planting pipe bombs under two police cars in Los Angeles in August 1975, Soliah was later charged in Sacramento for the murder of a bank customer killed in an April 1975 holdup after the... (WorldNetDaily)
Suri Cruise Is Real, and Really Cute Mar 1, 2007
The guest list was another who's who including the ubiquitous Victoria Beckham, shaggy-haired Jon Bon Jovi, the Osbournes, Sheryl Crow, Kiefer Sutherland, Simon Cowell (who rendered no judgments), Patty Hearst Shaw, Roberto Cavalli, Macy Gray, Eric McCormack, Gloria Estefan, Joely Fisher, John Waters, Cheryl Tiegs, Marlee Matlin and Tim Allen. Bernie Taupin, Elton's famed lyricist, brought wife Heather and supermodel Petra Nemcova showed up for James Blunt. (Fox News -- Views)
'Zodiac' Movie Recalls 'SF Chron' Ties to Unsolved Serial Killings Feb 28, 2007
"There was a lot of energy, that they were going to catch the guy." Brewer said the Zodiac case eventually got lost in the shuffle of a string of high-profile crimes in the area that followed during the 1970s, from the Patty Hearst kidnapping to the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk. "It is bringing back how different it was that many years ago, the relationship between the press and the police," Brewer said about the movie. (MediaWeek.com)
Local eyes on Zodiac Film hits theaters March 2 Feb 27, 2007
When the Zodiac killings subsided though they resumed later Avery tackled the story of Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army, eventually writing a book on the subject entitled The Voices of Guns coauthored with Vin McLellan. The book won the Edgar Allen Poe Award. (Enterprise-Journal)
Experts: Ransom a surprising twist Feb 26, 2007
In America, ransom abductions are normally relegated to the rich and famous including notorious cases such as newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, aviator Charles Lindberghs baby and singer Frank Sinatras son. So when detectives found a scribbled ransom note over the weekend, even Manatee Sheriff Charlie Wells was surprised. (Herald-Tribune)
INTERNATIONAL MANHUNT ON Feb 26, 2007
THE NEWSPAPER HEIRESS WHO: Patty Hearst, granddaughter of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. WHEN: February 1974. (Herald-Tribune)
