Imagine if Rupert Murdoch’s son was kidnapped by terrorists, held for ransom, and then refused to come back because he grew to like his kidnappers. Such an event actually occurred, only the kidnapping victim was not a Murdoch but a Hearst, a scion of an earlier generation media baron. Patricia Hearst, a socialite and heiress of the Hearst fortune was taken by a shadowy guerrilla group from her home in Berkeley, shoved into the trunk of a car, and whisked away. The next big appearance she would make was as an accessory to a bank robbery in San Francisco.

On this day, September 19, in 1975, Patricia Hearst — or “Tania”, as she began calling herself by then — was peacefully apprehended in a nondescript San Francisco apartment, after a year on the FBI’s Most Wanted list.

The leftist Symbionese Liberation Army demanded a $4 million ransom for Hearst, which the family agreed to pay. But just several months later the family received a shocking announcement from her: she was joining up to fight alongside them. Hearst was caught on video driving the getaway car in a SLA bank robbery and later at another robbery of a sporting-goods store. She later claimed in her defense she was brainwashed, and indeed might have been one of the most prominent examples of the Stockholm Syndrome.