1 00:00:02,440 --> 00:00:05,880 Speaker 1: Welcome fans of movie history and true crime to Hollywoodland, 2 00:00:05,920 --> 00:00:08,520 Speaker 1: where we are once again taking a dip into our 3 00:00:08,640 --> 00:00:12,440 Speaker 1: archive of stories to bring you this episode on Patty Hurst. 4 00:00:13,039 --> 00:00:16,160 Speaker 1: In nineteen seventy four, when she was nineteen years old, 5 00:00:16,160 --> 00:00:19,360 Speaker 1: Patty Hurst was not yet an actress, though her family 6 00:00:19,680 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: was at the center of one of the most critically 7 00:00:21,440 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 1: acclaimed films of all time. Her grandfather, of course, was 8 00:00:25,040 --> 00:00:28,760 Speaker 1: the media mogul William Randolph Hurst, and his life was 9 00:00:28,800 --> 00:00:32,879 Speaker 1: the basis for orson Well's groundbreaking nineteen forty one film 10 00:00:33,040 --> 00:00:36,760 Speaker 1: Citizen Kane. But in seventy four, Patty Hurst was just 11 00:00:36,800 --> 00:00:40,120 Speaker 1: another sophomore at Berkeley when she was kidnapped from her 12 00:00:40,159 --> 00:00:44,800 Speaker 1: apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army, a radical left wing 13 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:48,839 Speaker 1: militant organization that demanded the Hurst family pay millions of 14 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:52,120 Speaker 1: dollars in ransom by using that money to distribute food 15 00:00:52,440 --> 00:00:56,600 Speaker 1: to poor and marginalized Californians. It's a wild story that 16 00:00:56,720 --> 00:01:00,760 Speaker 1: belongs in Hollywood Land, because not only are the Hearst'sllywood adjacent, 17 00:01:01,000 --> 00:01:04,480 Speaker 1: but Patti Hurst wound up following perhaps the most unorthodox 18 00:01:04,520 --> 00:01:07,880 Speaker 1: path of all time to lead to the acting profession, 19 00:01:08,200 --> 00:01:11,200 Speaker 1: where she wound up appearing in many films and TV shows, 20 00:01:11,240 --> 00:01:14,560 Speaker 1: mostly in the movies of John Waters. I hope you 21 00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,000 Speaker 1: dig this insane episode, and I hope you join me 22 00:01:17,040 --> 00:01:19,720 Speaker 1: here again on Wednesday when we dive into this a 23 00:01:19,720 --> 00:01:22,480 Speaker 1: little more in the Rap Party, and then again on Friday, 24 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,040 Speaker 1: when I'm going to feature the twenty thirteen Denis Villeneuve 25 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:33,280 Speaker 1: film Prisoners in a brand new episode of the Screening Room. 26 00:01:33,360 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 2: Hollywood Land is a production of Double Elvis. The stories 27 00:01:47,040 --> 00:01:52,440 Speaker 2: about Patty Hurst are insane. Her grandfather, William Randolph Hurst, 28 00:01:52,720 --> 00:01:56,400 Speaker 2: created the largest newspaper, magazine, radio in movie business in 29 00:01:56,440 --> 00:02:00,320 Speaker 2: the world, making Patty an heiress to an unpressed ed 30 00:02:00,400 --> 00:02:04,520 Speaker 2: media empire. When she was nineteen years old, however, she 31 00:02:04,640 --> 00:02:09,200 Speaker 2: was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. After two months 32 00:02:09,240 --> 00:02:12,200 Speaker 2: as a hostage, she joined the cause of her captors 33 00:02:12,440 --> 00:02:17,639 Speaker 2: and became a gun toting terrorist. She handbuilt bombs, robbed banks, 34 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:21,240 Speaker 2: and learned her way around submachine guns. Now, when the 35 00:02:21,280 --> 00:02:24,919 Speaker 2: cops finally caught her, she claimed she'd been brainwashed by 36 00:02:24,919 --> 00:02:30,079 Speaker 2: her captors. But despite her terrorizing experiences with the SLA, 37 00:02:30,639 --> 00:02:35,120 Speaker 2: Patty Hurris later made great films. Unlike that clip I 38 00:02:35,200 --> 00:02:37,160 Speaker 2: played for you at the top of the show. That 39 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:39,959 Speaker 2: wasn't from a great film, That was a fair you 40 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:44,320 Speaker 2: sample from the Library of Congress of Prince's Orchestra performing 41 00:02:44,600 --> 00:02:49,320 Speaker 2: Stolen Sweets in nineteen seventeen. I played you that clip 42 00:02:49,520 --> 00:02:53,280 Speaker 2: because I can't afford the rights to William Friedkins The Exorcist. 43 00:02:53,560 --> 00:02:56,360 Speaker 2: And why would I play you that specific slice of 44 00:02:56,600 --> 00:03:01,680 Speaker 2: p soup projectile vomiting cheese. Kadi afford it because that 45 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,519 Speaker 2: was the number one film in America on February fourth, 46 00:03:05,639 --> 00:03:08,760 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four. In that was the day that the 47 00:03:08,760 --> 00:03:12,320 Speaker 2: Symbionese Liberation Army ripped Patty Hurst from the comfort of 48 00:03:12,360 --> 00:03:15,959 Speaker 2: her Berkeley apartment, beginning one of the most shocking media 49 00:03:16,040 --> 00:03:21,639 Speaker 2: sensations of the twentieth century. On this episode, gun toting terrorists, 50 00:03:21,880 --> 00:03:27,400 Speaker 2: handbuilt bombs, peace suit projectile vomiting cheese, and Patty Hurst. 51 00:03:28,160 --> 00:04:03,200 Speaker 2: I'm Jake Brennan and this is Hollywood Land. Be quiet, 52 00:04:03,440 --> 00:04:07,320 Speaker 2: nobody gets hurt. The black automatic pistol hovered an inch 53 00:04:07,400 --> 00:04:11,720 Speaker 2: from Patty Hers's face. She had prepared for this. Your 54 00:04:11,760 --> 00:04:15,600 Speaker 2: family's worth millions, the press w and American newspaper Eiress. 55 00:04:15,920 --> 00:04:18,760 Speaker 2: You practically expect to hear that cliche movie thread at 56 00:04:18,839 --> 00:04:22,320 Speaker 2: least once in your life, maybe in San Simeon, maybe 57 00:04:22,360 --> 00:04:25,400 Speaker 2: on a balcony at hers castle, but not here. In 58 00:04:25,400 --> 00:04:30,080 Speaker 2: a cramped apartment outside of UC Berkeley, Patty stared down 59 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:32,839 Speaker 2: at the barrel of the pistol. She focused intently on 60 00:04:32,880 --> 00:04:35,839 Speaker 2: the intruder in front of her, so intently that she 61 00:04:35,839 --> 00:04:38,839 Speaker 2: didn't see a second burglar grab her from behind. He 62 00:04:38,960 --> 00:04:40,960 Speaker 2: tossed her to the ground, dragged her by the neck 63 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:43,720 Speaker 2: down the hallway. His nails dug into her skin as 64 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:47,240 Speaker 2: he swept the floor with her. The strangers barked at Patty, 65 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:50,880 Speaker 2: where does she keep the safe? Patty was dumbfounded. There 66 00:04:51,000 --> 00:04:53,640 Speaker 2: was no safe. She barely kept more on hand than 67 00:04:53,640 --> 00:04:57,000 Speaker 2: her three hundred dollars monthly allowance. That was fine. The 68 00:04:57,000 --> 00:04:59,960 Speaker 2: home invaders weren't actually looking for money. They had enough 69 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:06,920 Speaker 2: her prize in mind. February fourth, nineteen seventy four, Patty 70 00:05:07,000 --> 00:05:10,000 Speaker 2: writhed on the floor of her apartment. A woman bound 71 00:05:10,040 --> 00:05:13,080 Speaker 2: Patty's hands behind her back with nylon, and then she 72 00:05:13,120 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 2: stuffed a racketball into Patty's mouth to gagger. Patty spotted 73 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:19,960 Speaker 2: her fiance's wallet on the floor, left in the exact 74 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:23,080 Speaker 2: spot where he tossed it before fleeing. Take anything you want, 75 00:05:23,160 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 2: he cried, That's exactly what the strangers were going to do. 76 00:05:27,360 --> 00:05:31,280 Speaker 2: The team of burglars moved like a trained army, massive weapons, 77 00:05:31,440 --> 00:05:36,719 Speaker 2: precise actions, stone, serious faces. These people did their research. 78 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:39,520 Speaker 2: They knew there was no security at two six oh 79 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 2: three Benvenue Have. They knew there was a little traffic too, 80 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:49,960 Speaker 2: No bystanders, no busy bodies, bingo. One man dragged Patty 81 00:05:50,000 --> 00:05:52,360 Speaker 2: down the front steps of the apartment. She squirmed as 82 00:05:52,400 --> 00:05:55,360 Speaker 2: her body thumped down the stairs. Her bathrobe dragged to 83 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:57,919 Speaker 2: the dirt. She kicked off for fuzzy blue slippers in 84 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,240 Speaker 2: the struggle. It was no use. The stranger wrangled her 85 00:06:01,279 --> 00:06:03,359 Speaker 2: to the fridge trunk of a stolen Chevy, and Paula 86 00:06:03,560 --> 00:06:06,480 Speaker 2: wrapped some nylon around her eyes as a blindfold and 87 00:06:06,600 --> 00:06:12,000 Speaker 2: slammed the door. Patty struggle. When silent, she curled up 88 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,919 Speaker 2: in a ball for warmth. A bathrobe and panties weren't 89 00:06:15,000 --> 00:06:18,480 Speaker 2: enough for a forty degree winter evening. She felt the 90 00:06:18,560 --> 00:06:22,279 Speaker 2: Chevrolet lurched forward and her stomach lurched with it. Fuck 91 00:06:22,640 --> 00:06:25,480 Speaker 2: it was over, She felt the car speed away from 92 00:06:25,480 --> 00:06:28,760 Speaker 2: the crime scene. The vandals weren't concerned about getting caught. 93 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 2: In fact, they wanted the cops to know who had 94 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:35,400 Speaker 2: dropped by that evening, Patty's kidnappers left the clue a 95 00:06:35,440 --> 00:06:40,000 Speaker 2: package of thirty eight caliber bullets. Cyanide filled bullets a 96 00:06:40,120 --> 00:06:45,560 Speaker 2: sign a something ludicrous, powerful, deadly, a sign of the 97 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:51,760 Speaker 2: Cymviennese Liberation Army SLA. For sure, the cops would recognize 98 00:06:51,800 --> 00:06:54,239 Speaker 2: the cyanide filled bullets as the same kind that killed 99 00:06:54,240 --> 00:06:58,440 Speaker 2: Marcus Foster, the first black school superintendent in Oakland, California. 100 00:06:58,920 --> 00:07:01,960 Speaker 2: He was the first person caught in the SLA's crosshairs. 101 00:07:03,240 --> 00:07:05,760 Speaker 2: In the SLA didn't see Foster as a symbol of 102 00:07:05,839 --> 00:07:09,279 Speaker 2: racial equality in America. To them, he was a goddamn 103 00:07:09,320 --> 00:07:12,960 Speaker 2: fascist pawn of the goddamn fascist government. The SLA gunned 104 00:07:13,000 --> 00:07:16,000 Speaker 2: down Foster with eight cyanide filled bullets in November of 105 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:19,720 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy three. Then they shot off a communicator to 106 00:07:19,760 --> 00:07:23,200 Speaker 2: the press and forming journalists who'd done the crime in 107 00:07:23,200 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 2: The SLA also had to inform the papers who the 108 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:32,080 Speaker 2: fuck they were. The Simienese Liberation Army was a new 109 00:07:32,160 --> 00:07:35,640 Speaker 2: left wing organization on the precipice of terrorizing the Bay area. 110 00:07:36,280 --> 00:07:41,600 Speaker 2: Its members were unified by every type of radicalism, Maoism, Marxism, 111 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:44,160 Speaker 2: a hatred of the American government, which they deemed a 112 00:07:44,200 --> 00:07:47,760 Speaker 2: fascist insect that praised upon the life of people. They 113 00:07:47,760 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 2: were against Nixon, against Vietnam, against depression, and as a 114 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:55,160 Speaker 2: quote unquote vanguard group. They planned to initiate change by 115 00:07:55,200 --> 00:07:59,840 Speaker 2: inspiring the general population to rebel against the United States government, 116 00:08:00,400 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 2: and their goal was symbiosis, hence Symbionese. Their first attempt 117 00:08:06,520 --> 00:08:10,520 Speaker 2: at rebellion failed miserably. The assassination of Marcus Foster didn't 118 00:08:10,560 --> 00:08:15,280 Speaker 2: inspire action against the government, it inspired people to mourn. Worse, 119 00:08:15,640 --> 00:08:18,560 Speaker 2: two of their men were arrested for Foster's murder, and 120 00:08:18,600 --> 00:08:24,400 Speaker 2: now they rotted in sam Quentin Prison forfeiting two members 121 00:08:24,480 --> 00:08:28,480 Speaker 2: was a major loss. The slas so called army was 122 00:08:28,520 --> 00:08:31,080 Speaker 2: barely a dozen people strong to begin with. Then their 123 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:35,559 Speaker 2: escape jailbird leader Donald de Friese aka Sink, called himself 124 00:08:35,600 --> 00:08:41,920 Speaker 2: the SLA's General Field Marshal as a stolen Chevrolet cruised 125 00:08:41,960 --> 00:08:45,360 Speaker 2: back to the SLA safe house in Daily City. Sink 126 00:08:45,800 --> 00:08:48,880 Speaker 2: was the general field marshal of a whopping eight people. 127 00:08:49,480 --> 00:08:52,240 Speaker 2: He needed those two men back. He needed a lot 128 00:08:52,280 --> 00:08:57,120 Speaker 2: of things. Sink craved respect and notoriety for his operation. 129 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,960 Speaker 2: He needed the SLA to mean something. He was convinced 130 00:09:01,000 --> 00:09:03,640 Speaker 2: the SLA would rise to the upper echelont of political 131 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:06,120 Speaker 2: groups once they taught the United States government a lesson, 132 00:09:06,760 --> 00:09:08,960 Speaker 2: and that very lesson was curled up in the trunk 133 00:09:09,000 --> 00:09:15,600 Speaker 2: of the stolen Chevy and PAULA few surnames were more 134 00:09:15,679 --> 00:09:19,439 Speaker 2: notorious than Hearst in the twentieth century. Patty was the 135 00:09:19,520 --> 00:09:24,000 Speaker 2: granddaughter of the American newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hurst, founder 136 00:09:24,040 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 2: of the San Francisco Examiner. You might know the fictionalized 137 00:09:27,559 --> 00:09:31,280 Speaker 2: version of Hearst as the protagonist and citizen Kane. The Hearse, 138 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,920 Speaker 2: ninety thousand square footed state in San Simeon, was one 139 00:09:34,920 --> 00:09:39,400 Speaker 2: of the crown jewels of American architecture. Patty Hirst's family 140 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 2: wasn't just rich, they were the picture of wealth. Like 141 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:47,040 Speaker 2: a twentieth century clan of Trump's, the Hearse had everything 142 00:09:47,080 --> 00:09:51,560 Speaker 2: the SLA needed, money, notoriety, and power with the press. 143 00:09:52,400 --> 00:09:55,480 Speaker 2: Reports of her kidnapping were guaranteed to be front page news. 144 00:09:56,160 --> 00:09:59,480 Speaker 2: While the SLA milked the media coverage, they planned to 145 00:09:59,559 --> 00:10:02,040 Speaker 2: use pas is a bargaining ship to spring their two 146 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:04,880 Speaker 2: men from San Quentin, and they could probably demand some 147 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,960 Speaker 2: cash from the hers' bottomless bank account in the process. 148 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:14,880 Speaker 2: Minutes passed, maybe hours. Patty couldn't tell. She lost all 149 00:10:14,960 --> 00:10:17,880 Speaker 2: concepts of time. Blindfolded in the darkness of the trunk, 150 00:10:18,640 --> 00:10:21,440 Speaker 2: she felt someone hoister from the car and they carried 151 00:10:21,440 --> 00:10:24,439 Speaker 2: her to another dark cavern. She heard the door inside 152 00:10:24,480 --> 00:10:30,320 Speaker 2: close with a click. Locked. An earthy musk permeated the space. 153 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: Patty felt around for the walls. She could barely stretch 154 00:10:33,800 --> 00:10:37,520 Speaker 2: out her arms. Her stomach sank. This wasn't a room. 155 00:10:37,679 --> 00:10:40,480 Speaker 2: This was a closet, complete with the dingy mattress on 156 00:10:40,520 --> 00:10:42,760 Speaker 2: the floor, cut to fit the six foot by two 157 00:10:42,840 --> 00:10:46,480 Speaker 2: foot space. Sink barked at Patty from the other side 158 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:49,480 Speaker 2: of the closet door. Patty wasn't kidnapped, he assured her. 159 00:10:49,679 --> 00:10:52,760 Speaker 2: She'd been arrested, taken by a combat unit, he said, 160 00:10:53,120 --> 00:10:57,640 Speaker 2: the Symbionese Liberation Army. Her father, Randolph Hurst, was a 161 00:10:57,679 --> 00:10:59,960 Speaker 2: corporate enemy of the people, he said, and she had 162 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,320 Speaker 2: to pay for his crimes in this cramped closet. According 163 00:11:04,320 --> 00:11:07,200 Speaker 2: to the General General Sink, Patty had nothing to fear 164 00:11:07,240 --> 00:11:10,080 Speaker 2: except the fascist police should they attempt to rescue her. 165 00:11:10,559 --> 00:11:12,679 Speaker 2: She could sense his shit eating grin from the other 166 00:11:12,720 --> 00:11:16,440 Speaker 2: side of the door. The SLA had a new communicator draft. 167 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:19,000 Speaker 2: This one arrived with a few presents for the press, 168 00:11:19,679 --> 00:11:23,280 Speaker 2: one tape from Sink plus Patty's mobile oil car, just 169 00:11:23,320 --> 00:11:26,920 Speaker 2: in case anyone doubted that the SLA actually had kidnapped her. 170 00:11:27,679 --> 00:11:31,160 Speaker 2: But that wasn't all the SLA needed from Patty. They 171 00:11:31,200 --> 00:11:35,280 Speaker 2: desired a tape from her two. The SLA kindly drafted 172 00:11:35,320 --> 00:11:37,840 Speaker 2: a statement for Patty to read. They told her to 173 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:41,800 Speaker 2: personalize the script with their own words. Patty HER's first 174 00:11:41,840 --> 00:11:50,280 Speaker 2: performance was about to begin. Mom, Dad, I'm okay. Patty's 175 00:11:50,320 --> 00:11:53,760 Speaker 2: words echoed across America. On February seventh, nineteen seventy four, 176 00:11:54,280 --> 00:11:57,959 Speaker 2: three days since her disappearance, the SLA required the press 177 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,280 Speaker 2: to play the tapes in full. Lesson jopardized Patty's safety. 178 00:12:01,880 --> 00:12:04,720 Speaker 2: The news was a triple threat of fame, fortune, and felonies. 179 00:12:05,240 --> 00:12:08,440 Speaker 2: America hadn't seen a kidnapping like this since the Lindberg Baby. 180 00:12:09,120 --> 00:12:10,960 Speaker 2: I want to get out of here. The only way 181 00:12:10,960 --> 00:12:13,080 Speaker 2: to do it is their way, and I just hope 182 00:12:13,080 --> 00:12:15,480 Speaker 2: you'll do what they say, Dad, and you'll do it. Quickly. 183 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:19,360 Speaker 2: What the SLA said was that they required an act 184 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,320 Speaker 2: of good faith before they could negotiate. They needed to 185 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:26,640 Speaker 2: know the hears we're serious about this reconmission. Sink demanded 186 00:12:26,640 --> 00:12:31,600 Speaker 2: a month's worth of weekly food distribution for poor Californians. Specifically, 187 00:12:31,960 --> 00:12:35,440 Speaker 2: he needed seventy dollars worth of meat, vegetables, and dairy 188 00:12:35,480 --> 00:12:38,400 Speaker 2: products for every person in the state with a welfare 189 00:12:38,440 --> 00:12:42,040 Speaker 2: card or a Social Security pension card or food stamps, 190 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,080 Speaker 2: disabled veteran cards, or medical cards. The list of demands 191 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:50,079 Speaker 2: went on the SLA's logo. A seven headed cobra had 192 00:12:50,080 --> 00:12:53,280 Speaker 2: to be on display for the entire circus. The distribution 193 00:12:53,400 --> 00:12:55,640 Speaker 2: must begin one week from that day, and there were 194 00:12:55,640 --> 00:12:59,440 Speaker 2: to be three more weekly distributions. The oppressors would feed 195 00:12:59,480 --> 00:13:04,079 Speaker 2: the oppressed, no food, no patty. If the police or 196 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:07,280 Speaker 2: the FBI came knocking in the meantime, Patty would be 197 00:13:07,360 --> 00:13:11,240 Speaker 2: executed with a cyanide filled bullet, of course, and the 198 00:13:11,320 --> 00:13:45,000 Speaker 2: SLA would not hesitate. The food swept across the streets 199 00:13:45,000 --> 00:13:50,960 Speaker 2: like ammunition. Turkeys, hams, potatoes, boxes of rice, canned vegetables. 200 00:13:51,200 --> 00:13:54,800 Speaker 2: They all rain from the delivery trucks. The turkeys proved 201 00:13:54,800 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 2: to be the most valuable weapon. They weighed the most, hurt, 202 00:13:58,280 --> 00:14:02,240 Speaker 2: the most good for bruising, but really, any meat would 203 00:14:02,280 --> 00:14:05,040 Speaker 2: be a mark, and those canned goods could really fuck 204 00:14:05,120 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 2: up someone's face too. The crowd gathered in Oakland was 205 00:14:08,880 --> 00:14:11,480 Speaker 2: beyond pushing and shoving for their share of the bounty. 206 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:17,800 Speaker 2: They were throwing and grabbing, shattering glass, and stabbing. When 207 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:20,840 Speaker 2: the sun rose on February twenty second, nineteen seventy four, 208 00:14:21,280 --> 00:14:25,280 Speaker 2: it cast rays on five thousand famished families, each eager 209 00:14:25,320 --> 00:14:27,720 Speaker 2: to take home their share of the bounty secured by 210 00:14:27,760 --> 00:14:32,360 Speaker 2: the SLA. Food distribution in Oakland was supposed to begin 211 00:14:32,440 --> 00:14:35,960 Speaker 2: at noon, but the violence started much earlier than that. 212 00:14:37,280 --> 00:14:40,520 Speaker 2: The line started at Your Black Muslim Bakery, a local 213 00:14:40,560 --> 00:14:43,760 Speaker 2: bake shop at the epicenter of distribution. From there, the 214 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:47,200 Speaker 2: dense crowds filled into the streets. No one could pass through, 215 00:14:47,520 --> 00:14:50,400 Speaker 2: not even the food delivery trucks. One driver laid on 216 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:52,440 Speaker 2: the horn. Is it to say move your asses if 217 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:55,520 Speaker 2: you want to eat tonight? A angry onlooker responded by 218 00:14:55,560 --> 00:14:59,200 Speaker 2: launching a bottle through the truck's window. Fuck that guy. 219 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:04,400 Speaker 2: The food fight was on the bounding, promised by the 220 00:15:04,480 --> 00:15:07,200 Speaker 2: hearst family was supposed to be a full on feast, 221 00:15:07,680 --> 00:15:12,880 Speaker 2: a rack of lamb, a picnic, ham, steaks, eggs, milk, rice, potatoes, 222 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:17,200 Speaker 2: fresh fruits, instant cocoa mix, even boxes of macaroni and cheese. 223 00:15:17,760 --> 00:15:21,680 Speaker 2: Each box of food weighed roughly twenty seven pounds, and 224 00:15:21,760 --> 00:15:24,960 Speaker 2: the crab was starving, hungry for the food that was 225 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,800 Speaker 2: owed them, and hungry for violence. Feeding this many Americans 226 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:32,920 Speaker 2: at once was an unprecedented feat. The Hearst family was 227 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:37,320 Speaker 2: woefully unprepared for what unfolded in Oakland. The distribution should 228 00:15:37,320 --> 00:15:40,280 Speaker 2: have cost hundreds of millions of dollars. Hearst coughed up 229 00:15:40,400 --> 00:15:43,480 Speaker 2: two million dollars instead, five hundred thousand of his own 230 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:46,720 Speaker 2: savings and one point five million from the Hearst Foundation. 231 00:15:47,320 --> 00:15:50,400 Speaker 2: Not enough Moulah meant not enough food, and the math 232 00:15:50,880 --> 00:15:54,400 Speaker 2: was staggering. Two million dollars allocated for a four hundred 233 00:15:54,440 --> 00:15:58,520 Speaker 2: million dollar job, twenty one hospitalizations, one lost eye, one 234 00:15:58,600 --> 00:16:03,200 Speaker 2: stab police officer, thousands of people left without food. Instead 235 00:16:03,200 --> 00:16:06,080 Speaker 2: of taking food home to their families, people were stepping 236 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,320 Speaker 2: on it, scraping it off the asphalt. If it could 237 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,960 Speaker 2: even be salvaged. Teenage gangs pilfered the spoils from the 238 00:16:12,000 --> 00:16:15,240 Speaker 2: needy people catapulted to meat from the delivery trucks into 239 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,360 Speaker 2: the crowd. The crowd launched the food right back. In 240 00:16:19,440 --> 00:16:22,640 Speaker 2: three other cities across San Francisco and Los Angeles, the 241 00:16:22,720 --> 00:16:26,320 Speaker 2: food distribution went as planned, but the radio blasting near 242 00:16:26,400 --> 00:16:34,440 Speaker 2: Patty Hirst's closetself only detailed the horrors In Oakland. Patty 243 00:16:34,560 --> 00:16:36,680 Speaker 2: was used to the high volume of the radio by now. 244 00:16:37,120 --> 00:16:39,840 Speaker 2: The SLA didn't trust her. They kept the radio on 245 00:16:39,920 --> 00:16:42,480 Speaker 2: full blast to drown out the whispers of their meetings. 246 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:46,200 Speaker 2: Patty didn't mind, allowed radio as far superior to the 247 00:16:46,240 --> 00:16:50,480 Speaker 2: many things the SLA forced Patty to hear. The SLA 248 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:53,920 Speaker 2: offered her a new education, taught her wrong from right, 249 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:58,160 Speaker 2: riches from radicalism. When the radio wasn't screaming, members of 250 00:16:58,200 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 2: the SLA took turns reading to Patty through the closet door. 251 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:05,359 Speaker 2: Mow marks all the revolutions and their key leaders, and 252 00:17:05,400 --> 00:17:10,000 Speaker 2: the SLA drilled their rigid politics into Patty's head. Patty's 253 00:17:10,000 --> 00:17:14,880 Speaker 2: red nail polish was bourgeois. Marriage was bourgeois, birthdays were bourgeois. Two. 254 00:17:15,440 --> 00:17:19,080 Speaker 2: Patty turned twenty in her cell without fanfare, but there 255 00:17:19,119 --> 00:17:21,639 Speaker 2: was one sentiment the SLA repeated even more than the 256 00:17:21,640 --> 00:17:25,119 Speaker 2: word bourgeois, a fact that sinc reminded her of daily, 257 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:31,360 Speaker 2: if not hourly. If the FBI came knocking, Patty would die, period, 258 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:35,920 Speaker 2: no negotiations. She would be a bloody pile of collateral damage. 259 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,560 Speaker 2: The SLA was so sure of an imminent visit from 260 00:17:38,600 --> 00:17:41,000 Speaker 2: the FBI that Sink gave Patty her own sowd off 261 00:17:41,000 --> 00:17:43,800 Speaker 2: shotgun to keep with her in the closet. He showed 262 00:17:43,800 --> 00:17:46,879 Speaker 2: her how to shoot it and break it down. Apparently 263 00:17:47,200 --> 00:17:52,200 Speaker 2: playing with guns was not bourgeois, that was rich. Patty's 264 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,119 Speaker 2: first lessons in marksmanship came from duck hunting with her 265 00:17:55,119 --> 00:17:57,639 Speaker 2: father as a pre teen. She already knew much of 266 00:17:57,640 --> 00:18:00,439 Speaker 2: what Sink wanted to teach her, but Patty played along. 267 00:18:00,960 --> 00:18:03,800 Speaker 2: Playing along was the only thing keeping Patty her safe. 268 00:18:05,000 --> 00:18:08,600 Speaker 2: Patty's life became a performance. Her tiny closet might as 269 00:18:08,640 --> 00:18:12,280 Speaker 2: well have been center stage. Patty learned to nod with conviction. 270 00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:15,399 Speaker 2: She asked about ideology she had no interest in. She 271 00:18:15,480 --> 00:18:18,320 Speaker 2: cocked her head as if to say, oh, really, tell 272 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:21,280 Speaker 2: me more, through the tears soaked blindfold that sagged on 273 00:18:21,280 --> 00:18:27,000 Speaker 2: her face. The SLA gradually rewarded Patty for this phony 274 00:18:27,040 --> 00:18:30,359 Speaker 2: display of passion. Some days they left the closet door 275 00:18:30,440 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 2: open for her. Other times she joined them for meals. 276 00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:36,800 Speaker 2: Members even read newspaper clippings about her through the closet 277 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:40,840 Speaker 2: door as a courtesy. But the longer Patty remained in captivity, 278 00:18:41,040 --> 00:18:44,480 Speaker 2: the less her name appeared in the news. The SLA 279 00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:48,160 Speaker 2: painted a grim picture. They claimed no one was negotiating 280 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:50,520 Speaker 2: for Patty and no one was coming to rescue her, 281 00:18:50,800 --> 00:18:55,639 Speaker 2: and hey, even if they did, they'd be shot Patty too. 282 00:18:55,960 --> 00:19:00,399 Speaker 2: Months passed, the SLA's two jailed members continued to rotten prison. 283 00:19:00,880 --> 00:19:03,480 Speaker 2: Patty's time as a pawn was waning, so was the 284 00:19:03,480 --> 00:19:07,960 Speaker 2: press coverage surrounding or kidnapping. The SLA was stumped. To Sink, 285 00:19:08,240 --> 00:19:11,000 Speaker 2: Patty was like the family chicken. Sure he's supposed to 286 00:19:11,040 --> 00:19:13,240 Speaker 2: kill it and eat it, but you'd become fond of 287 00:19:13,280 --> 00:19:16,000 Speaker 2: it over time too. He had no problem making this 288 00:19:16,080 --> 00:19:20,480 Speaker 2: comparison to Patty's face. Sink told Patty that the SLA's 289 00:19:20,520 --> 00:19:23,800 Speaker 2: War Council must decide her fate. He explained that there 290 00:19:23,800 --> 00:19:27,160 Speaker 2: were two possible outcomes. They'd either ask Patty to join 291 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,240 Speaker 2: the SLA, or they'd give orders to kill her, and 292 00:19:30,320 --> 00:19:34,040 Speaker 2: there was no one between truth be told, There was 293 00:19:34,119 --> 00:19:37,760 Speaker 2: no War counsul and Sink had no interest in indoctrinating 294 00:19:37,760 --> 00:19:41,520 Speaker 2: a hearst into his army. What actually enticed Sink was 295 00:19:41,560 --> 00:19:43,960 Speaker 2: the idea of stirring up a media frenzy with an 296 00:19:44,000 --> 00:19:48,000 Speaker 2: heiress turned terrorists. He was ready to cash in Patty's 297 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:52,800 Speaker 2: family ties for a final flurry of headlines. In April, 298 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:56,239 Speaker 2: Sink approached Patty with a choice. The War Council has 299 00:19:56,280 --> 00:19:58,720 Speaker 2: decided he can join us if you want to, or 300 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,400 Speaker 2: you can be released and go home again. Sink told her. 301 00:20:02,040 --> 00:20:05,800 Speaker 2: The question made Patty's pulse quicken. She may have rearranged 302 00:20:05,800 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 2: her political ideas to align with the SLA, but her 303 00:20:08,680 --> 00:20:11,800 Speaker 2: critical thinking was still intact. She suspected there was no 304 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:15,040 Speaker 2: going home option. It was join or die, Just like 305 00:20:15,119 --> 00:20:18,480 Speaker 2: Sink told her once before, and after two months in captivity, 306 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:21,160 Speaker 2: Patty Hurst wasn't about to throw in the towel and die. 307 00:20:22,440 --> 00:20:27,840 Speaker 2: Patty didn't flinch. I'll join you, she said. Patty slid 308 00:20:27,840 --> 00:20:31,040 Speaker 2: the raggedy blindfold off of her eyes. She saw Sink's 309 00:20:31,040 --> 00:20:34,280 Speaker 2: expression for the first time, that sinister grin that she 310 00:20:34,320 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 2: often felt burning through her closet door, and the SLA 311 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:40,080 Speaker 2: had a new urban guerrilla in its ranks, a true 312 00:20:40,160 --> 00:20:43,480 Speaker 2: convert from the upper echelons of the upper class. Best 313 00:20:43,480 --> 00:20:47,640 Speaker 2: of all, their new recruit had name recognition, but that 314 00:20:47,720 --> 00:20:51,240 Speaker 2: name recognition would be swiftly wiped away. If Patty was 315 00:20:51,280 --> 00:20:54,280 Speaker 2: to join the SLA, she needed a code name. Sink 316 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:58,240 Speaker 2: selected one for her. She was baptized as Tanya spelled 317 00:20:58,440 --> 00:21:02,359 Speaker 2: Ta Na, named after a woman who fought alongside Jaycovara 318 00:21:02,480 --> 00:21:06,400 Speaker 2: during the revolution in Bolivia. The SLAD jumped into action 319 00:21:06,480 --> 00:21:08,920 Speaker 2: as quickly as Patty had agreed to join them. They 320 00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:13,600 Speaker 2: drafted another communicate, another tape, another script of assigned sentiments 321 00:21:13,600 --> 00:21:16,399 Speaker 2: for Patty to read. Patty Hurst made the tape to 322 00:21:16,400 --> 00:21:20,320 Speaker 2: proclaim that Patty Hurst no longer existed. There was only 323 00:21:20,440 --> 00:21:23,520 Speaker 2: Tanya now, and Tanya was going to be put to 324 00:21:23,600 --> 00:21:30,919 Speaker 2: the test. Immediately. April fifteenth, nineteen seventy four, San Francisco, 325 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,160 Speaker 2: Patty Hurst burst through the doors of the Hibernia Bank 326 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 2: branch at Noriega Street in twenty second Avenue, her General 327 00:21:37,560 --> 00:21:40,840 Speaker 2: Marshall on one side of her bloodthirsty soldiers to the other. 328 00:21:41,359 --> 00:21:44,960 Speaker 2: It was time for Tanya's big debut. If the SLA 329 00:21:45,040 --> 00:21:47,080 Speaker 2: were on a movie set, a fat X would have 330 00:21:47,080 --> 00:21:50,440 Speaker 2: marked Patty's designated spot between the bank's two security cameras. 331 00:21:51,080 --> 00:21:54,320 Speaker 2: While the SLA started stuffing their bags with bills, Patty 332 00:21:54,359 --> 00:21:58,680 Speaker 2: waltzed into the spotlight right on cue. Most robbers would 333 00:21:58,680 --> 00:22:01,880 Speaker 2: pick a bank if it didn't have cameras, not the SLA. 334 00:22:02,440 --> 00:22:05,000 Speaker 2: They picked this bank in San Francisco because of its 335 00:22:05,080 --> 00:22:09,600 Speaker 2: security system. They wanted Patty or Tanya on film. They 336 00:22:09,600 --> 00:22:11,640 Speaker 2: had to prove that their comrade was ready to fight 337 00:22:11,680 --> 00:22:15,400 Speaker 2: for the people and one carbine in hand. This is Tanya, 338 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,160 Speaker 2: Patty cried at the cameras. She hoisted her gun into 339 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,240 Speaker 2: the air and fired as instructed bullets ripped into the ceiling. 340 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:24,920 Speaker 2: She was ready to act out her involvement. Act. Patty 341 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:27,080 Speaker 2: scene at the bank was one hundred percent pre plan 342 00:22:27,680 --> 00:22:31,880 Speaker 2: just like the scripts she was handed, but the bank 343 00:22:31,960 --> 00:22:36,159 Speaker 2: robbery itself was very real. In under ninety seconds, the 344 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:39,359 Speaker 2: crew of urban guerrillas were ten thousand dollars Forricher and 345 00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:44,240 Speaker 2: one member Richard two. Patty kept playing her role, playing along. 346 00:22:45,040 --> 00:22:48,119 Speaker 2: How long Patty Hurst wanted to play along though, was 347 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:54,000 Speaker 2: up to her. We'll be right back after this word 348 00:22:54,240 --> 00:23:02,840 Speaker 2: were were. Patty Hurst didn't have a watch. She relied 349 00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,960 Speaker 2: on her gut to tell the time. Her gut was all. 350 00:23:06,000 --> 00:23:11,199 Speaker 2: She had left five minutes past, then ten, now twenty. 351 00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:17,440 Speaker 2: Shit had her comrades really been gone that long? Patty 352 00:23:17,520 --> 00:23:19,680 Speaker 2: crouched near a window in the back of the SLA's 353 00:23:19,760 --> 00:23:23,080 Speaker 2: red and white Volkswagen. Her eyes darted out the window 354 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:26,879 Speaker 2: across the street to Mel's Sporting Goods, then to the 355 00:23:26,960 --> 00:23:30,080 Speaker 2: van's door handle, back and forth like a ping pong ball. 356 00:23:30,520 --> 00:23:34,520 Speaker 2: Mels door handle, Mells door handle. Stay, leaves, stay leave. 357 00:23:35,800 --> 00:23:38,600 Speaker 2: A breeze whispered to Patty through the window. A cool 358 00:23:38,640 --> 00:23:41,320 Speaker 2: air on her face felt like a miracle. It was 359 00:23:41,359 --> 00:23:45,320 Speaker 2: the jolt of energy she needed. The news was stale 360 00:23:45,480 --> 00:23:48,240 Speaker 2: for one Patty's parents were so shaken by word of 361 00:23:48,240 --> 00:23:51,720 Speaker 2: her recruitment by the SLA they retreated to Desierneza's vacation 362 00:23:51,840 --> 00:23:55,200 Speaker 2: home in Mexico. Apparently they took the hearst media hype 363 00:23:55,240 --> 00:23:59,960 Speaker 2: with them. The newest SLA headquarters were also stale. One shaft, 364 00:24:00,520 --> 00:24:05,640 Speaker 2: three rooms, no hot water, no furniture, no stove, no electricity. 365 00:24:06,480 --> 00:24:08,880 Speaker 2: Their food supply was starting to get stale again too. 366 00:24:09,359 --> 00:24:12,000 Speaker 2: A steady diet of rice beans and peanut butter hollowed 367 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,520 Speaker 2: up Patty's cheekbones and ribcage. The ten grand haull from 368 00:24:15,560 --> 00:24:18,080 Speaker 2: the Hibernia Bank job was already reduced to a sad 369 00:24:18,160 --> 00:24:20,800 Speaker 2: sack of coins, and there was just enough lettuce left 370 00:24:20,800 --> 00:24:24,840 Speaker 2: for a few errands. Fellow SLA soldiers Tico and Yolanda 371 00:24:24,960 --> 00:24:28,359 Speaker 2: took Patty ship Tanya out to grab some supplies and 372 00:24:28,359 --> 00:24:31,720 Speaker 2: pay a parking ticket. Apparently even terrorists survived by the loss. 373 00:24:31,760 --> 00:24:37,000 Speaker 2: Sometimes today's re entry into society was Patty's reward for 374 00:24:37,040 --> 00:24:39,959 Speaker 2: her convincing display at the robbery. She was trusted as 375 00:24:39,960 --> 00:24:43,399 Speaker 2: a real recruit. Now Patty had strict orders this afternoon, 376 00:24:43,960 --> 00:24:47,520 Speaker 2: stay in the van and out of sight. She was 377 00:24:47,520 --> 00:24:51,200 Speaker 2: too recognizable to the public. After months of press coverage. 378 00:24:51,240 --> 00:24:54,600 Speaker 2: Twenty minutes passed twenty minutes of a loone time, twenty 379 00:24:54,640 --> 00:24:57,720 Speaker 2: minutes while her unarmed captors were out of sight and 380 00:24:57,760 --> 00:25:00,040 Speaker 2: their stockpile of weapons sat next to Patty on the 381 00:25:00,080 --> 00:25:03,280 Speaker 2: bare middle floor of the van. Patty could have walked away. 382 00:25:03,600 --> 00:25:06,600 Speaker 2: She could have run away, screaming, arms flailing right back 383 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:10,040 Speaker 2: into the embrace of her comfortable former life. But something 384 00:25:10,080 --> 00:25:13,600 Speaker 2: in Patty chose to stay a fiber of fear, or 385 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:18,479 Speaker 2: maybe it was her gut again. Patty heard the scuffle 386 00:25:18,520 --> 00:25:21,639 Speaker 2: before she saw it. Her comrade Tiko squirmed on the 387 00:25:21,640 --> 00:25:23,720 Speaker 2: street front of Mells, pinned to the ground by a 388 00:25:23,760 --> 00:25:27,680 Speaker 2: shop clerk. More employees piled on top. One handcuffed dangle 389 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,000 Speaker 2: from his wrists. He glared at her from the ground. 390 00:25:30,520 --> 00:25:30,800 Speaker 3: Shit. 391 00:25:31,680 --> 00:25:34,159 Speaker 2: Patty didn't know why Tiko was in trouble, but she 392 00:25:34,200 --> 00:25:36,800 Speaker 2: didn't need a reason right now. She just needed somewhere 393 00:25:36,880 --> 00:25:40,080 Speaker 2: to point her gun. Patty plucked the submachine gun from 394 00:25:40,080 --> 00:25:42,359 Speaker 2: the pile of firearms of the van. She pointed it 395 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:45,120 Speaker 2: out the window towards Mels. She didn't shoot to kill, 396 00:25:45,520 --> 00:25:48,879 Speaker 2: just to distract. Thirty rounds weaved around the pile on 397 00:25:49,240 --> 00:25:52,760 Speaker 2: and the recoil launched Patty backwards. One thousand doses of 398 00:25:52,800 --> 00:25:56,239 Speaker 2: adrenaline went straight to her trigger finger. She grabbed her 399 00:25:56,240 --> 00:26:00,000 Speaker 2: own weapon next, a semi automatic carbine. Three more shots 400 00:26:00,080 --> 00:26:02,920 Speaker 2: to hang out, three more distractions to get her comrades 401 00:26:02,960 --> 00:26:06,040 Speaker 2: back to the van. Tico and Yolanda scampered away from 402 00:26:06,080 --> 00:26:08,560 Speaker 2: Melos and into the VW What the fuck took you 403 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,840 Speaker 2: so long, Tico asked. His temper soured, the mood in 404 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,480 Speaker 2: the van. Apparently his attempt to shoplift a bandelier backfired. 405 00:26:16,080 --> 00:26:19,400 Speaker 2: Patty's mouth fell open. She hadn't just chosen to stay 406 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:22,040 Speaker 2: with the SLA. She chose to fight for them with 407 00:26:22,200 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 2: guns of blazing over a goddamn bandelier. Patty didn't have 408 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,000 Speaker 2: time to pity herself or her choices. She was on 409 00:26:32,040 --> 00:26:34,879 Speaker 2: the run now, not as a kidnapping victim, as a 410 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,640 Speaker 2: common criminal. This wasn't pretend anymore. He didn't play along. 411 00:26:38,680 --> 00:26:41,040 Speaker 2: With automatic weapons in your hands, you were either a 412 00:26:41,160 --> 00:26:43,960 Speaker 2: terrorist or you weren't. Patty wasn't the one with a 413 00:26:44,000 --> 00:26:45,760 Speaker 2: gun pointed at her temple like she was in her 414 00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:48,000 Speaker 2: kitchen a few months ago. She was the one with 415 00:26:48,040 --> 00:26:50,919 Speaker 2: her finger on the trigger, and she pulled it over 416 00:26:51,119 --> 00:26:54,480 Speaker 2: and over again. The lines about where Patty stood with 417 00:26:54,520 --> 00:26:58,639 Speaker 2: the SLA were blurry at best until now. Now she 418 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,480 Speaker 2: drew a big, fat black line between us and them. 419 00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:06,000 Speaker 2: Patty was on the SLA's side. But that in your 420 00:27:06,040 --> 00:27:11,920 Speaker 2: next comedic k the Volkswagens swore through Englewood. It set 421 00:27:11,920 --> 00:27:14,640 Speaker 2: out like a clunky red and white thumb. Tico insisted 422 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,240 Speaker 2: the cops catch up with them any minute. The SLA 423 00:27:17,359 --> 00:27:21,520 Speaker 2: had to ditch their eye asa. Tico pointed his submachine 424 00:27:21,520 --> 00:27:25,000 Speaker 2: gun at the first idle car we spotted, an unremarkable Pontiac. 425 00:27:25,480 --> 00:27:28,280 Speaker 2: The driver retreated before Tico could make a threat. The 426 00:27:28,320 --> 00:27:31,240 Speaker 2: three soldiers hauled their heavy artillery into their new sedan, 427 00:27:31,560 --> 00:27:34,280 Speaker 2: and then Tico drove that baby as fast and as 428 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:38,120 Speaker 2: far as it would take them, which was two hole blocks. 429 00:27:38,960 --> 00:27:42,200 Speaker 2: The car's engine shuddered, sputtered out, died right there in 430 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:46,040 Speaker 2: the street. Fuck time for a new ride. Another gun 431 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:49,119 Speaker 2: in another stranger's face, Another mad dashed to a new vehicle, 432 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:52,040 Speaker 2: and the SLA let the trail of terrorized citizens and 433 00:27:52,080 --> 00:27:55,800 Speaker 2: abandoned cars arounding Wood. They raced farther and farther away 434 00:27:55,800 --> 00:27:58,040 Speaker 2: from the scene of the crime, farther away from their 435 00:27:58,080 --> 00:28:03,920 Speaker 2: accidental clue for the police. To Tico was so eager 436 00:28:03,960 --> 00:28:06,960 Speaker 2: to escape the police that he overlooked a detail left 437 00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 2: inside the van, an unpaid parking ticket from West eighty 438 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:15,560 Speaker 2: fourth Street, the same street as the SLA's three room scheck. 439 00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:19,600 Speaker 2: It would be the police's ticket to finding the SLA. 440 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:27,280 Speaker 2: May seventeenth, nineteen seventy four, the tear gas came first. 441 00:28:27,680 --> 00:28:30,560 Speaker 2: Two canisters shattered a side window at one four sixty 442 00:28:30,600 --> 00:28:34,400 Speaker 2: six East fifty fourth Street and the LAPDS. Eighteen previous 443 00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:37,640 Speaker 2: surrender announcements hadn't moved the SLA from their current hideout. 444 00:28:38,000 --> 00:28:41,280 Speaker 2: Maybe a little mace would change their minds. The hiss 445 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:44,320 Speaker 2: of the gas canisters was the SLA's q. Time to 446 00:28:44,320 --> 00:28:47,960 Speaker 2: put all that weapons training to good use. After three 447 00:28:48,000 --> 00:28:51,800 Speaker 2: months with no leads, the SLA's abandoned parking ticket led 448 00:28:51,840 --> 00:28:55,160 Speaker 2: the authorities towards a flophouse on East fifty fourth Street. 449 00:28:55,720 --> 00:29:00,360 Speaker 2: The LAPD arrived first them the FBI SWAT agents orders 450 00:29:00,360 --> 00:29:03,880 Speaker 2: from KNXT followed, totting a new tool called the mini Cam. 451 00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:06,160 Speaker 2: They didn't know at the time that they were about 452 00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,920 Speaker 2: to make history with the first unplanned breaking news event 453 00:29:09,040 --> 00:29:13,120 Speaker 2: broadcast live across the country. Bullets sped across the street 454 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,240 Speaker 2: in both directions. The swat team alone fired roughly fifty 455 00:29:16,280 --> 00:29:18,560 Speaker 2: four hundred rounds in one hour, and no matter how 456 00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,200 Speaker 2: much tear gas was launched into the house, how many 457 00:29:21,240 --> 00:29:25,320 Speaker 2: bullets decorated the exterior of the flophouse, the SLA would 458 00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:29,000 Speaker 2: not surrender. They choked on the gas, but their trigger 459 00:29:29,000 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 2: figures never faltered. They aimed at the enemy through teary 460 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:36,080 Speaker 2: eyes cycled through their arsenal of weapons, every shot more 461 00:29:36,200 --> 00:29:40,040 Speaker 2: desperate than the last. The SLA prepared for a showdown 462 00:29:40,160 --> 00:29:42,800 Speaker 2: like this. They were willing to die for their nebulous, 463 00:29:42,840 --> 00:29:47,280 Speaker 2: haphazard cause, for their literature of radical buzzwords and ideologies. 464 00:29:48,800 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 2: New clouds of smoke mushroomed in the halls, not tear 465 00:29:52,080 --> 00:29:55,960 Speaker 2: gas as time, real smoke from a real fire. No 466 00:29:56,000 --> 00:29:58,400 Speaker 2: one knew for sure if the SLA started the flames, 467 00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,120 Speaker 2: but from the street whose clear that the flames would 468 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:05,080 Speaker 2: finish them. Smoke poured out the windows. The thick black 469 00:30:05,080 --> 00:30:07,960 Speaker 2: clouds stretched toward the sky like arms, ready to surrender, 470 00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,240 Speaker 2: but the SLA chose death over surrender. A swat team 471 00:30:12,240 --> 00:30:15,520 Speaker 2: bullet shattered the skull of Nancy Lynn Camilla Hall received 472 00:30:15,520 --> 00:30:18,760 Speaker 2: two fatal shots in the back, and the SLA's quote 473 00:30:18,840 --> 00:30:23,440 Speaker 2: unquote General Marshall Donald the Frieze aka Sink, burned alive 474 00:30:23,520 --> 00:30:29,480 Speaker 2: with his soldiers. A sudden silence punctuated the news coverage. 475 00:30:29,680 --> 00:30:32,520 Speaker 2: It could be a ceasefire. More likely, it could mean 476 00:30:32,520 --> 00:30:35,720 Speaker 2: that there were no survivors, but even that wasn't the 477 00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,120 Speaker 2: most pressing matter at the moment. Every American watching the 478 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,040 Speaker 2: historic scene from the sofa buzz with the same question. 479 00:30:42,840 --> 00:31:05,880 Speaker 2: Was Patty Hurst in that burning house? Detective A pressed 480 00:31:05,880 --> 00:31:10,280 Speaker 2: her ear to the front door. Silence, No, wait, a 481 00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:15,160 Speaker 2: buzz the television. She gestured for Detective B to come 482 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:18,160 Speaker 2: in closer. He cut along the side of the guesthouse. 483 00:31:18,560 --> 00:31:20,640 Speaker 2: And this could be it. They could put the kibosh 484 00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,400 Speaker 2: on this kidnapping, right here, right now. Detective A gently 485 00:31:24,480 --> 00:31:27,200 Speaker 2: jiggled the door handle to the bungalow. She pushed it 486 00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,640 Speaker 2: open with her fingertips, and the pair of detectives crept inside. 487 00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:33,800 Speaker 2: They stalked down a dark hallway and tore the buzz. 488 00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:39,040 Speaker 2: That's when they spotted her. Patty Hurst, not terrified, not 489 00:31:39,200 --> 00:31:44,240 Speaker 2: tied up, sprawled out on the sofa, channel surfing. Are 490 00:31:44,240 --> 00:31:46,960 Speaker 2: you all right? Patty tilted her head with an air 491 00:31:46,960 --> 00:31:50,000 Speaker 2: of skepticism. I'd be better if you closed the door 492 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,600 Speaker 2: and didn't try to rescue me. In two thousand and six, 493 00:31:54,960 --> 00:31:58,040 Speaker 2: Patty Hurst once again appeared on TV screens across America, 494 00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,640 Speaker 2: but she wasn't on the news for shooting up banks 495 00:32:00,640 --> 00:32:03,440 Speaker 2: and sporting goods stores as part of a terrorist organization. 496 00:32:04,280 --> 00:32:06,920 Speaker 2: This time, she played the role of a kidnapped character 497 00:32:07,000 --> 00:32:10,320 Speaker 2: on Veronica Mars you know, the te Nora drama set 498 00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:14,520 Speaker 2: at Hurst College. Patty made an appearance in season three 499 00:32:14,560 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 2: as an influential college board trustee who vanishes from campus 500 00:32:18,120 --> 00:32:21,200 Speaker 2: in what appears to be a kidnapping. As Veronica and 501 00:32:21,240 --> 00:32:25,080 Speaker 2: her father soon learned, Patty's character, Selma Rose, didn't want 502 00:32:25,120 --> 00:32:32,160 Speaker 2: to be found sound familiar. Patty Hurst was not caught 503 00:32:32,160 --> 00:32:34,440 Speaker 2: in the police shootout that day back in May of 504 00:32:34,520 --> 00:32:38,720 Speaker 2: nineteen seventy four, when the SLA went up in flames. Instead, 505 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,080 Speaker 2: she was camped out at a Disneyland motel with fellow 506 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,240 Speaker 2: soldiers Tico and Yolanda. She and her comrades watched, along 507 00:32:46,280 --> 00:32:49,280 Speaker 2: with millions of Americans, as the core of the SLA 508 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:53,960 Speaker 2: combusted on live television. She watched their fearless leader burn 509 00:32:54,040 --> 00:32:56,760 Speaker 2: to a crisp She watched the majority of the army 510 00:32:56,800 --> 00:32:59,959 Speaker 2: faul to the so called fascist police in The SLA. 511 00:33:00,200 --> 00:33:02,920 Speaker 2: Could have folded right then and there, but once again, 512 00:33:03,400 --> 00:33:07,400 Speaker 2: Patty Hurst chose to fight. She lived on the run 513 00:33:07,440 --> 00:33:09,960 Speaker 2: with the remnants of the SLA for another year. She 514 00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:14,640 Speaker 2: graduated from gunplay to making pipe bombs, undeniable terrorist activity. 515 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:19,520 Speaker 2: Lucky for her targets, the SLA sucked at planning homemade explosives, 516 00:33:19,720 --> 00:33:22,680 Speaker 2: and they're carefully planned. Attax often fizzled out, just like 517 00:33:22,720 --> 00:33:26,600 Speaker 2: the slas momentum, and the FBI found the SLA and 518 00:33:26,640 --> 00:33:29,640 Speaker 2: their weakest, most pathetic state in San Francisco. In nineteen 519 00:33:29,720 --> 00:33:33,400 Speaker 2: seventy five, Patty was arrested as a full fledged the 520 00:33:33,400 --> 00:33:36,600 Speaker 2: member of the SLA. Her performance as an urban guerrilla 521 00:33:36,840 --> 00:33:41,400 Speaker 2: ended almost immediately. Patty renounced her radicalism almost as quickly 522 00:33:41,400 --> 00:33:44,560 Speaker 2: as she had accepted it. She slipped back into arismode 523 00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:47,760 Speaker 2: on the stand in court, Tanya was dead and Patty 524 00:33:47,840 --> 00:33:50,760 Speaker 2: Hurst lived to tell the tale. She testified that the 525 00:33:50,880 --> 00:33:53,640 Speaker 2: SLAD drugged and brainwashed her over the course of two 526 00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:57,840 Speaker 2: painstaking years. Her body seemed to confirm the tale. Her 527 00:33:57,880 --> 00:34:01,200 Speaker 2: frame shrank to eighty seven pounds and her IQ had 528 00:34:01,240 --> 00:34:05,120 Speaker 2: plummeted from one thirty to one to twelve. Still, the 529 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,279 Speaker 2: court was unmoved by Patty's claims She'd had chances to 530 00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:13,040 Speaker 2: flee and she literally shot those chances down. In nineteen 531 00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:16,080 Speaker 2: seventy six, Patty was found guilty of robbing a bank 532 00:34:16,120 --> 00:34:18,520 Speaker 2: and using a firearm during the commission of a felony. 533 00:34:18,960 --> 00:34:23,319 Speaker 2: The court slapped her with seventy years in prison, but 534 00:34:23,480 --> 00:34:27,120 Speaker 2: Patty was a Hearst again, and Hearst didn't go to prison. 535 00:34:27,880 --> 00:34:30,400 Speaker 2: She served only twenty two months of her federal sentence 536 00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:34,240 Speaker 2: before President Carter commuted her in nineteen seventy nine, thanks 537 00:34:34,239 --> 00:34:37,640 Speaker 2: of course, to a campaign organized by Mommy and Daddy Hurst, 538 00:34:38,120 --> 00:34:40,959 Speaker 2: and then later in two thousand and one, President Bill 539 00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:47,720 Speaker 2: Clinton pardon Patty Hurst as a free woman. Patty Hurst 540 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:50,719 Speaker 2: never entered the workforce. She claimed her family had enough 541 00:34:50,760 --> 00:34:53,480 Speaker 2: money that she didn't need to. Beyond that, she just 542 00:34:53,520 --> 00:34:58,160 Speaker 2: didn't want to. Classic bourgeoisie, Patty Hurst knew how to 543 00:34:58,160 --> 00:35:00,560 Speaker 2: play the right role at the right time. She thrust 544 00:35:00,600 --> 00:35:03,000 Speaker 2: her fist in the air, proclaiming her status as an 545 00:35:03,040 --> 00:35:05,920 Speaker 2: Herban gorilla. At one moment, she weaved a story of 546 00:35:06,040 --> 00:35:09,640 Speaker 2: terror and brainwashing. The next. Only one of those things, though, 547 00:35:09,719 --> 00:35:13,239 Speaker 2: can really be true. Patty Hurst either acted when she 548 00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,040 Speaker 2: was in the sla or she acted innocent for every 549 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,880 Speaker 2: second of her testimony. Either way, she gave the performance 550 00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:25,080 Speaker 2: of a lifetime. Director. John Waters saw the potential. Her 551 00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:28,640 Speaker 2: batshit crazy story fits that John Waters kind of camp Hell. 552 00:35:28,719 --> 00:35:32,640 Speaker 2: He invented that kind of camp. John Waters, the transgressive director, 553 00:35:32,719 --> 00:35:35,600 Speaker 2: gave Patty her small roles in the movie serial Bob 554 00:35:35,680 --> 00:35:38,960 Speaker 2: and Crybaby in the early nineteen nineties, and that spurred 555 00:35:39,000 --> 00:35:42,680 Speaker 2: on additional film and TV appearances in Biodome, Frasier, and 556 00:35:42,760 --> 00:35:46,440 Speaker 2: Cecil b Demented. Even after the turn of the century, 557 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:49,280 Speaker 2: Ronica Mars was itching to add a Patty Hurst element 558 00:35:49,280 --> 00:35:53,040 Speaker 2: to its repertoire of warrish crimes. Her appearance in season 559 00:35:53,080 --> 00:35:55,640 Speaker 2: three didn't reintroduce the plight of Patty Hurst to a 560 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,719 Speaker 2: new generation. She needed no introduction. There have been eight 561 00:35:59,800 --> 00:36:03,360 Speaker 2: movies about her story, one TV mini series, an episode 562 00:36:03,360 --> 00:36:06,880 Speaker 2: of Drunk History, countless songs from Patti Smith to Frank Turner, 563 00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:09,040 Speaker 2: with some rumors about the Hall and Oates tune Rich 564 00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:13,200 Speaker 2: Girl Caught in Between. Yet nowhere in that pile of 565 00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:16,400 Speaker 2: media do we ever confirm the truth about Patty Hurst. 566 00:36:16,880 --> 00:36:19,960 Speaker 2: Even decades after her kidnapping, we still can't tell when 567 00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:24,680 Speaker 2: she was acting. People can't get enough of Patty Hurst's performance, 568 00:36:25,120 --> 00:36:29,680 Speaker 2: of her enduring, edgy mystique, the kind of mystique that 569 00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:35,880 Speaker 2: ought to be in pictures. I'm Jake Brennan and this 570 00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:41,480 Speaker 2: is Hollywood Land. 571 00:36:50,239 --> 00:36:53,320 Speaker 3: Hollywood Land was created by Years Truly and is produced 572 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,200 Speaker 3: in partnership with double Elvis, follow, like, rate, and review 573 00:36:57,239 --> 00:36:59,480 Speaker 3: hollywood Land wherever you get your podcasts, and get in 574 00:36:59,520 --> 00:37:02,839 Speaker 3: touch with us on social media at double Elvis. 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