10. Patty Hearst
In February 1974 this daughter of prominent newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped by the left wing guerrilla group, Symbionese Liberation Army, which sought to destroy the capitalist system that they felt Heart represented. Hearst was at her college apartment when armed men broke through the door, beat up her boyfriend and kidnapped her, throwing her in the trunk of the car. By choosing Hearst, the domestic terrorist group received the attention they wanted. Following physical abuse and indoctrination, she is thought to have suffered from Stockholm Syndrome, as she pledged her allegiance to her kidnappers and was later arrested along with some of them for bank robbery in 1975. After serving two years, President Carter commuted her sentence. President Clinton later granted her a pardon in 2001.
