Playboy Interview: Patricia Hearst

March, 1982

Playboy Interview: Patricia HearstBefore the night of February 4, 1974, few people had heard of Patricia Campbell Hearst. To those who knew her, she was a 19-year-old Berkeley college student majoring in art history and living with her fiancé, Steven Weed, 26, a graduate student in philosophy. Her family, of course, which controls America's largest privately owned media-and-land conglomerate, is well-known, not least because of the exploits of Patricia's grandfather, the publishing lycoon immort...