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E63 The Kidnapping of Patricia Hearst Part 2
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Patty Hearst, granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was a young heiress, living with her boyfriend Steven Weed in Berkeley in the winter of 1974 when a knock at the door changed her life. After her boyfriend escaped a group of intruders sent from the Symbionese Liberation Army, Patricia was thrown into the trunk of their escape car and then held hostage for nearly two months, until she finally released a recording stating that she had joined the SLA to fight. Two weeks later she was caught on video in the middle of a bank robbery where she clearly had joined with the SLA to commit the crime. She would later be tried, sentenced, released, and eventually pardoned.
Sources:
American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Symbionese-Liberation-Army
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/what-is-the-symbionese-liberation-army.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/guerrilla-rise-and-fall-symbionese-liberation-army/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army
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When? This feed was archived on October 31, 2022 21:27 (). Last successful fetch was on August 01, 2022 15:14 ()
Why? Inactive feed status. Our servers were unable to retrieve a valid podcast feed for a sustained period.
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Manage episode 284500066 series 2543656
***Audio alert- we had an issue with audio on this one, recorded it through the MacBook microphone, so bear with us. Quality will be back to normal next week***
Patty Hearst, granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst, was a young heiress, living with her boyfriend Steven Weed in Berkeley in the winter of 1974 when a knock at the door changed her life. After her boyfriend escaped a group of intruders sent from the Symbionese Liberation Army, Patricia was thrown into the trunk of their escape car and then held hostage for nearly two months, until she finally released a recording stating that she had joined the SLA to fight. Two weeks later she was caught on video in the middle of a bank robbery where she clearly had joined with the SLA to commit the crime. She would later be tried, sentenced, released, and eventually pardoned.
Sources:
American Heiress by Jeffrey Toobin
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Symbionese-Liberation-Army
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2002/01/what-is-the-symbionese-liberation-army.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/guerrilla-rise-and-fall-symbionese-liberation-army/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbionese_Liberation_Army
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