Patty Hearst (1975)

At 9:40 A.M. on April 15, 1974 four white women and a black man burst into the Sunset District branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco yelling, "It's a hold-up! Down on the floor! On your faces, you ----------!". The group was led by Donald DeFreeze and accompanying him were SLA members Patricia Soltysik, Camilla Hall, Nancy Ling Perry and Patty Hearst. In four minutes they managed to rob the bank of $10,000, wound two bystanders and make a clean getaway in a waiting car. Patty recounted her memory of the robbery on Larry King: "I said my name and -- because I was supposed to say my name and make a speech, but it's all pretty unclear. And then, Donald DeFreeze shot someone, and then everything went blank. ... My next memory is sitting in the car leaving (the bank). "[After the robbery] I sensed that I had, in fact, crossed over some sharp line of demarcation. ... For me, suddenly it became plain: There was no turning back." When the attorney general saw the footage he determined that Hearst had not been forced but was a willing participant of the robbery. He issued a warrant for her arrest as a "material witness" This later changed when another SLA "communiqués" was released where Patty claimed that at no time was a gun pointed at her, that her family were the enemy (the "pig Hearsts"), her fiancé, Steven Weed, was "an ageist, sexist pig." and that the robbery was an "expropriation": "Greetings to the people, this is Tania … the difference between a criminal act and a revolutionary act is what the money is used for." It was in this tape that she declared the idea of her being brainwashed was ridiculous. After the released tape her status was changed to reflect that she admitted full participation in the crime.