![]() over the following year, you see the actions of a revolutionary, not a victim," Toobin says. Toobin's book, American Heiress, revisits the famous kidnapping and the ongoing question of Hearst's motivations and loyalty in the 19 months that followed her abduction. "The mystery of that photograph is really what the mystery of this book is about." "You look at this photograph and you have to wonder: Whose side is she on?" author Jeffrey Toobin tells Fresh Air's Terry Gross. Newspapers published a photograph of the heiress carrying a weapon and posing in front of the SLA flag. ![]() Two months after her abduction, questions concerning Hearst's ties to her abductors arose after Hearst declared her allegiance to the SLA, denounced her family and was seen carrying an automatic weapon during an SLA bank robbery. ![]() In February of 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter of the wealthy newspaper publisher William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a small, armed revolutionary group with an incoherent ideology and unclear goals. It shows Patty Hearst standing in front of a Symbionese Liberation Army flag several months after she was kidnapped. ![]() ![]() "This iconic photograph became one of the most famous images of the 1970s," Jeffrey Toobin says. ![]()
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