Patricia hearst shaw french bulldogs tuggy
Patricia Hearst Shaw, right, after her French bulldogs Tuggy and Rubi won best of breed and best of opposite sex on Monday.
Heiress Patty Hearst Shaw was an impressive double winner at the Westminster Dog show on Monday as her French bulldog Tuggy won best of breed.!
From Stockholm Syndrome to the Westminster Dog Show — Patty Hearst Has Quite the Life
More than anything, Patty Hearst just wanted to be normal.
Is such a thing possible for a formerly abducted heiress?
Patty Hearst was arrested in San Francisco, Calif., in September 1975. The Hearst Media heiress was kidnapped from her home Feb.
4, 1974, by members of a terrorist organization called the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA).
A couple of her French bulldogs (Tuggy and Rubi) won prizes, including some at the prestigious and televised Westminster Kennel Club dog show.Their "priorities included ending racism, monogamy, the prison system and 'all other institutions that have made and sustained capitalism,'" per PBS. Two months after she was kidnapped, Hearst pledged her allegiance to the SLA.
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Eventually Hearst was arrested for her involvement in a bank robbery that resulted in the murder of a bystander. While on trial, her lawyers would claim she was brainwashed but the jury didn't buy it.
Her seven year sentence was commuted by then President Jimmy Carter after Hearst served a