The events of the story go back nearly half a century, and are the most exciting in the history of media coverage of an American incident, starring Patricia Hearst, daughter of Randolph Apperson Hearst, one of the American media moguls.
The "Observatory" shed light on the story of the abduction of Patricia by an armed group in the winter of 1974. The kidnappers demanded that Patricia's father use his political influence to release colleagues accused of murder.
After the California authorities refused to submit to the kidnappers, they demanded that her father pay $70 to each needy person in California, or nearly $400 million.
Two months after her abduction, Patricia announced through one of her recordings that she had officially joined her kidnappers (the Symbiotic Liberation Army), and that her nom de guerre had become Tania.
Patricia committed bank robberies with them, transforming from an innocent hostage to a female offender who is fleeing from justice.
She was involved in a bank robbery in San Francisco, as well as a shooting while colleagues robbed a store.
After her arrest, the crimes in which she was involved cost her a 35-year prison sentence, then former President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence, and she left prison less than two years later, to receive a presidential pardon signed by Bill Clinton in 1999.
As for the scientific theory that explains the emergence of a relationship between the kidnapper and the hostage, psychology defines “Stockholm Syndrome” as an exceptional relationship that arises between the hostage and the kidnapper or detainee, a condition in which the hostages develop a psychological and emotional bond with their captors, and it occurs as a result of a succession of events and circumstances that the two parties go through during the kidnapping incident. .