On this day in 1976 Patty Hearst is let out on bail. If you don't know who Patty Hearst is, she is the granddaughter of the legendary publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. Hearst’s ordeal began on the night of February 4, 1974, when, as a 19-year-old college student, she was kidnapped from her Berkeley, California, apartment by armed gunmen. The kidnappers, members of a political terrorist group called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), beat Hearst’s fiancé and drove off with the ... Continue Reading