Patty Hearst Arrested: The Heiress-Turned-Fugitive Caught
FBI agents captured Patty Hearst in a San Francisco apartment after nineteen months on the Most Wanted List, ending a saga that began with her kidnapping by the Symbionese Liberation Army and her bewildering transformation into an armed radical. Her trial became a national spectacle that forced courts and psychologists to grapple with the legal boundaries of brainwashing and coerced participation.
September 18, 1975
51 years ago
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Tiberio es confirmado como emperador romano por el Senado.
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