February 5: Reporters gather at the Hearst family's mansion in a wealthy San Francisco suburb, Hillsborough, to follow the kidnapping story and interview Patty's parents. February 6: A letter ...

Patty Hearst's ancestors, like many California settlers, had come overland from the Midwest. Her great-grandfather, George Hearst, was a Missouri farmer and prospector with a nose for minerals.

On this date in 1974, Patty Hearst, 19, was kidnapped from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif., by members of the Symbionese ...