Bill Harris Has Died. He Kidnapped Patty Hearst in 1974. NYT - Home Page By: Alex Williams 7 October 2026 at 00:26 He was a disillusioned Vietnam veteran looking for purpose when he joined a revolutionary group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army. © Raimondo Borea/Associated PressBill Harris, center, after being captured in 1975, the year after the S.L.A. kidnapped Patty Hearst. Her family, he later said, “was in control of a media empire that we viewed as an arm of propaganda for the United States government.”
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