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Then it was Patty's turn. Newsmen and spectators in the crowded chamber strained to get a good look at the defendant in Case No. 74-364: The United States of America v. Patricia Campbell Hearst. Sitting near her at the witness table was her cousin, William Randolph Hearst III, 26, the first member of her family she saw after her capture. They had been close friends, and he seemed on the verge of tears. They avoided each other's eyes...
...days, one of the nation's most storied families had oscillated between frustration and faith, resignation and hope. It was the kind of roller-coaster existence all relatives of kidnap victims must endure, but for the Randolph Hearsts, somehow, everything about the ordeal seemed more extreme...
First came the initial shock and the sleepless nights. Randolph Hearst, by nature not given to quick and decisive action, managed to keep calm while awaiting, then struggling to comply with, the demands of the S.L.A. Catherine, his wife, genteel daughter of a Georgia telephone executive, was dumbfounded by the violence and noticeably more anxious. A devout Roman Catholic, she spent many hours in prayer. In their helplessness, the parents began to clutch at straws: two psychics were invited to the Hearsts' house in suburban Hillsborough and ran their fingers over a map of Northern California seeking "impulses...
...when six S.L.A. members perished in the Los Angeles Shootout, and it took agonizing time for all the charred bodies to be identified and to be sure that Patty's was not among them. When it was clear that Patty was alive, the San Francisco Examiner-of which Randolph Hearst was the editor and publisher-ran a Page One editorial calling for her surrender. Because of the shootout, the Hearsts were afraid that Patty might be harmed if she was captured by authorities. Mrs. Hearst entered a hospital suffering from a broken wrist and nervous exhaustion...
Richard Harding Davis' pressure-cooked dispatches from Cuba, for example, were clearly calculated to inflame U.S. opinion and trigger the Spanish-American War that Davis' boss, William Randolph Hearst, wanted. During the Boer War, the 25-year-old correspondent of London's Morning Post, Winston Churchill, carried a Mauser pistol and played soldier. Twelve years later, as First Lord of the Admiralty, he was part of Britain's censorship and propaganda machine...