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The Kidnapping
On February 4, 1974, the S.L.A. struck again. This time their target was the 19-year-old heiress to the Hearst family fortune, Patricia Campbell Hearst. A Berkeley undergraduate, Hearst was at home with her fiancé Steven Weed when three members of the S.L.A. forced their way in and abducted her.

Word from Patty
In a recording delivered on February 12 to KPFA, Patty Hearst told her parents that she was okay, that she was not being starved or unnecessarily beaten. She told the police not to try to find her. S.L.A. General Field Marshal Cinque (Donald DeFreeze) made a demand for food to be distributed to poor people in the area. Later, Hearst would say that during the first weeks, S.L.A. members had confined her to a dark closet. When Patty's father, Randolph Hearst, replied that the demands of the S.L.A. were "impossible," Patty spoke in another communiqué on February 16, asking her parents to "stop acting like I'm dead." DeFreeze stated that the S.L.A. was looking for "a good faith gesture."

People in Need
On February 19, Hearst announced that he would create People in Need, a food distribution program. Their plan was to feed 100,000 people for twelve months with $2 million. In what must have seemed like a miracle to Berkeley's left-wing anti-poverty activists, People in Need began its work just a few days later. But the poorly organized program failed to fulfill the dream come true as riots over the food began.