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Events on Thursday 18 September 1975 1
1975Patty Hearst arrested by FBIKidnapped heiress captured after 19 months as fugitiveNewspaper heiress Patricia Hearst was arrested in San Francisco on 18 September 1975, nearly a year and a half after being kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and subsequently participating in a bank robbery with the group. Her trial and defense of "brainwashing" drew intense media coverage. She was convicted and later had her sentence commuted.