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...drama that reached a climax last week is precisely the kind of sensational story that Patty's grandfather, Publisher William Randolph Hearst, exploited so skillfully while building his communications empire. From the moment that Patty was hauled half naked and screaming from her Berkeley, Calif., apartment, the story became not only increasingly dramatic but increasingly improbable. Could a rich, attractive young woman bearing such a legendary name really join the violent social revolutionaries of the S.L.A.? Could she have been so alienated from society and her parents-"pigs," she called them-that in two months she could change...
...across the country while she traveled from the West Coast to a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania and back again. Then, on Sept. 18, 1975, two lawmen crept up the stairs of a small house in San Francisco and knocked on the door, which swung open. Petrified, Patty Hearst pleaded, "Don't shoot," and went along quietly...
Faced with such damning evidence, Bailey chose to rely on the one witness who might have convinced the jury that the defendant had been brutally forced into taking part in the crime: he called Patty Hearst to the stand. It was a high-risk gamble. For although Patty performed well-vividly conveying the fears she said she experienced while with the terrorists-she was then open to Browning's crossexamination. At Bailey's urging, Patty took the Fifth Amendment 42 times when asked about her activities in the year before her capture. That badly damaged her credibility. Bailey...
Having done his best to discredit one of the prosecution's most important figures, Bailey later called two witnesses who, he calculated, could hardly be said to be impartial but who could have had a favorable effect upon the jury: Patty's father and mother. Randolph A. Hearst, 60, president of the San Francisco Examiner, is a solemn-faced man these days, but he smiled warmly at his daughter as he settled into the chair. Hearst disputed Dr. Harry Kozol, a psychiatrist who testified for the prosecution that Patty was an incipient rebel before her abduction...
When Catherine Hearst, 57, took the stand, her shining blonde hair elegantly coiffed, she looked as though she were planning to go shopping at Tiffany's. Steven Weed has claimed that there was "constant tension" between mother and daughter. In the S.L.A. "interview" with Tania, she called her mother "an incredible racist" and said that "my parents were the last people in the world I would go to to talk about anything." Yet Mrs. Hearst described Patty as "a very warm and loving girl," adding, "we always did things as a family." Bailey asked if the alienated girl described...