All language subtitles for The Radical Story of Patty Hearst s01e02 The Captive

The name Hearst was really synonymous
with over -the -top wealth. And who we

targeted as being enemies of the people.

The Seminese Liberation Army committed a
horrendous crime.

Marcus Foster was killed.

The bullets that were used were cyanide
-tipped.

Two men, Joseph Romero and Russell
Little, were arrested for Foster's

The decision to kidnap Patricia Hearst
was the direct result of John Russell's

arrest. I was... Just a college student
at Berkeley, living with my boyfriend.

There was a knock on the door. People
just burst into the apartment.

Started kicking me, hitting me.

It's like they're going to kill us.

Hearst is tied up and gagged and
blindfolded, thrown in the trunk, and we

away.

The granddaughter of William Randolph
Hearst was abducted by two men and a

in a bizarre kidnapping.

No ransom note, no phone calls, no word,
nothing.

The SLA is the people's army and we
fight in their interest.

The FBI said the girl in the wig with
the automatic rifle was Patricia Hearst.

Which college girl turned armed
terrorist in a matter of weeks?

Southern California's largest manhunt
continues.

For someone my age, I've been through an
awful lot.

We don't know where she is.

Mom, Dad, I'm okay.

I think what you saw in the SLA was
something that started from idealistic

and became poisoned.

They had a hope that the country was
tender and they would be the spark, that

the revolution is waiting for you.

You just have to be the right person at
the right time.

By this time, my eyes were full of
blood. I couldn't really see. I kind of

sense of the cars speeding off because
we were almost on a corner.

I staggered back around the front. It
was probably 30 seconds, 60 seconds.

Came back and said, where's Patty?
Where's Patty?

And they said they took her.

I just didn't register.

I didn't register.

There's been a big kidnapping on the
West Coast. The victim is Patricia

the daughter of newspaper executive
Randolph Hurst and a granddaughter of

legendary William Randolph Hurst.

February 4th, 1974.

I was a young reporter at the San
Francisco Examiner that night.

I got a call, Patty Hearst had been
kidnapped.

It just didn't make sense. What did they
mean?

Today, police were digging bullets out
of parked cars and windows and walls all

up and down the street.

They later found the empty getaway car.

It had been stolen and abandoned.

Police don't have an awful lot of leads,
but they know this kidnapping was too

well organized to be spur of the moment.

Shortly after the kidnapping, obviously,
this was a big event, and it happened

in Berkeley. Berkeley has a small police
department, and they immediately made a

notification to the Bureau, and then the
Bureau staffed up with everything that

they had in order to try and solve this
case.

I was in the hospital just under a week.
First time I saw Randy and Catherine

after I got out of the hospital was they
greeted me at their home.

At the front door, I made a short
statement.

They said absolutely nothing. They were
very militaristic.

They had it so well planned that they
needed to say almost nothing to each

other.

The house almost seemed under siege.

The front yard and the side yards were
full of the media.

Once Patty was kidnapped, the hearse...

home in hillsborough became a place that
reporters went to every day in

kidnappings you normally don't go to the
media okay but in this case it became a

media frenzy right off the bat here at
the hearst mansion in hillsborough the

phones in this home have been ringing
almost constantly telegrams are also

coming in heavily but again not from the
people whom the police and the hearst

desperately want to hear from there
really isn't anything new

You've all been wonderful.

We sit by the phones and we answer them
and we just hope that whoever has our

daughter will turn her loose.

We don't know who they are. We don't
know when we'll hear from them.

They were controlled when they were on
camera.

And for the most part, they said the
right things.

Inside the house, it was a...

It was pretty dark and gloomy, a little
bit of a roller coaster.

The house was more like a command post.

Before I got there, the FBI had already
set up.

It's a measure of the influence of the
Hearst family, that they don't go to the

FBI, the FBI goes to them.

It was frustrating. I didn't feel like
the FBI were getting that far.

Other than to say, yeah, we're working
on it, we'll get her, we'll do this.

We've got 67 agents on it, 104 agents,
whatever it was.

A few days after they kidnapped Patty
Hearst, they issued a statement,

communique, they called it.

A letter from the Symbionese Liberation
Army came in in the morning mail.

And basically the communique confirms
that they are holding Patricia Hearst.

United Federated Forces of the
Symbionese Liberation Army, armed with

-loaded weapons, served an arrest
warrant upon Patricia Campbell Hearst.

idea that Randy Hearst or anyone had to
read the words of the SLA was

horrifying. But Randy was willing to do
it. He was willing to do anything

because he wanted to save his daughter's
life.

All communications from this court must
be published in full in all newspapers

and all other forms of the media.

Failure to do so will endanger the
safety of the prisoner.

Our demands that they print all of our
communiques and read them on the news.

I mean, nobody's ever seen anything like
this. The talking heads on the 6 o

'clock news are sitting there reading
word for word these crazy -ass

communiques.

The hostage was not just Patricia
Hearst, the whole media was the hostage.

Should any attempt be made by
authorities to rescue the prisoner or to

harm any SLA elements, the prisoner is
to be executed.

And in capital letters under that is
death to the fascist insect that preys

the life of the people.

Death to the fascist insect that preys
upon the life of the people.

I'm sure I'm not the only person who
remembers that line.

It was crazy talk, but they took
themselves seriously and they had Patty

I realized who they were because when
they said that they were the SLA, they

already murdered Marcus Foster in
Oakland.

And so everybody.

knew what had happened, and everybody
was really horrified by it.

One of the most bizarre aspects of the
Hearst kidnapping is that the kidnappers

never really thought through their
demands.

You know, in some vague way, they wanted
Joe Romero and Russ Little freed.

Well, the best case would be that they
make an exchange.

It was hard to imagine with Nixon as
president and Reagan as governor that

would ever happen. And as a matter of
fact, they were very staunch in their

resolve not to cooperate with
terrorists.

What about the release of the two
prisoners? Do you think that if it came

that, that they should be released and
exchanged for petty prison?

No, because I think if you ever start
doing anything of that kind, you might

well open the prison doors.

Where would it stop? You just would have
signed a warrant, if you did that, that

would make kidnapping become a common
occupation.

I was put in a closet and blindfolded
and being

interrogated, insulted, just

that over and over again.

I mean, what would you do? You're in
your apartment one minute, and the next

minute you're in a closet, blindfolded
for days on end.

radical revolutionaries, the fear must
have been overwhelming, absolutely

overwhelming.

Good evening.

Patricia Hearst has sent her parents a
message, and her captors have sent them

unique and high -priced ransom note.

There was a crowd outside Berkeley radio
station KPFA as the morning mail was

opened. There was a letter. Newsmen
rushed in to hear it read on the air.

while Mr. and Mrs. Hearst listened in
their Hillsboro home, a tape recording

played.

Mom, Dad, I'm okay.

I had a few scrapes and

stuff, but they've washed them up and
they're getting okay.

I'm not being starved or beaten.

She was alive, obviously terrified,
stressed out.

She was talking, but she was clearly,
clearly terrorized and uncertain of her

situation.

She's sitting in the closet.

DeVries was talking to her at this
particular time.

We got the tape recorder, and she had to
reveal that we were attending to her

needs. She wasn't being harmed, and she
wanted them to cooperate with us.

I'm not gagged or anything, and I'm
comfortable.

And I think you can tell that I'm not
really terrified or anything.

You know, I'm okay.

We didn't anticipate having her for very
long.

If she was in our company and we weren't
wearing ski masks, then she was

blindfolded. We didn't want her to see
our faces because we were going to

release her.

I want to get out of here, but the only
way I'm going to is if we do it their

way.

And I just hope that you'll do what they
say, Dad, and just do it

quickly.

When the SLA finally did make a demand,
it was very much the product

of... the Indiana recruits, the theater
people, because it was a theatrical

gesture that they were demanding.

I didn't want to hurt anybody.

We knew we could do those kind of Robin
Hood -type actions, and that's what I

wanted to do.

My name is Sin Q, and to my comrades, I
am known as Sin.

I hold the rank of General Field Marshal
in the United Federated Forces of the

Symbionese Liberation Army.

As we became more organized, it was not
unusual to adopt code names.

DeVries called himself Thin Q.

Before any form of negotiation for the
release of the subject prisoner be

initiated, let an action of good faith
be shown on the part of the Hurst

This gesture is to be in the form of
food to the needy and the unemployed,

to which the following instructions are
directed to be followed to the letter.

As a show of good faith, distribute $70
of food to basically everybody in

California that wants it.

To us, it signaled that she was in the
hands of not a political group, but more

like a Manson type of group.

Just flat out barking mad.

I mean, look, some of the communiques
sound relatively unsophisticated, but we

didn't give a shit. We didn't give a
shit about what rich people in the

government thought.

We want to see how far we can motivate
them to do what we want. We had the ace.

Morning. Morning.

Morning.

I think if I do what I can to distribute
some food to poor people, I think this,

I hope at least, they'll believe that
I'm honest with them.

That's as far as we can go.

I had this terrible feeling that

That's all I had asked for. What they
probably didn't even realize was a $400

million demand.

Randy was offering $2 million.

Arrangements have been made for $2
million to be delivered to a tax -exempt

charitable organization capable of
making a distribution for the benefit of

poor in need.

But I thought at least a few words
should be said, because, you know, this

not seem like what you asked for, but...

But this was a lot of money for us. He
didn't have $10 million sitting around.

He really didn't. That was a lot of
money in those days.

He didn't want to be undressed by the
SLA publicly.

Randy would have done anything to save
her, but that was the one little piece

pride that he wanted to retain in all
this.

We disagreed. We disagreed about that.

And over a few drinks, sometimes it
would turn into an argument, but we both

realized how difficult the situation is.

So the Hearths do a couple of things.
They raise money, and they reach out to

Ludlow Kramer and Peggy Mays, who are
already involved in the state of

Washington in food distribution
programs.

Ludlow Kramer was our Secretary of
State. He and I, prior to this, had

even though he was a Republican.

Ludd and I flew down to meet with the
Hurst family.

Within 24 hours, we were getting it
started.

I wanted to get it done fast so that the
SLA would know that we were acting in

good faith.

Hurst was truly afraid that his daughter
was going to get killed if he did not

comply.

The SLA had been telling me over and
over again that...

My parents didn't care about me, that
the police didn't care about me,

that the FBI didn't care about me. I
believed that I had nowhere to go.

If we think about Patty in this
situation, she's being bombarded by this

of individuals who are hardcore,
dedicated Marxist revolutionaries, and

going to be so...

vulnerable to whatever is being fed to
her, that it's really going to be hard

for her to process that in any kind of
rational way.

He relatively quickly began to interact
with the three comrades that were

assigned to her, and that was Willie,
Nancy, and Angela.

She was a cooperative prisoner.

She handled her situation admirably, and
it caused us to have more respect for

her than we thought that we would.

you know, have.

Initially, Patty was afraid to eat in
the first couple of days.

Sensing that Patty was afraid to eat,
Angela said, let me eat first and then

take some food so that she would know
that they weren't trying to poison her.

Comrades explained to her why we were
doing this.

I'm sure she wondered if we were crazy
in the beginning, but she knew we

crazy after talking to people. She just
understood that we were determined and

we weren't fooling around.

and that we understood that our lives
were in the balance, but that our

were going to have an impact on other
people's lives.

They would give me a flashlight and
literature, which I had to memorize and

recite to them.

I had to memorize what each one of the
heads of the seven -headed cobra meant,

because they were now interested in re
-educating me, because that was the

comradely thing to do.

We needed her to be able to give some
kind of perspective on us as a captive.

You know, she wasn't going back without
any knowledge about us.

One of the many oddities of the SLA was
that there were five women and

three men in that little house. It was
mostly women.

And they were all self -professed
feminists.

And that dynamic of empowering women was
something they talked about a lot.

And part of that for that group was also
getting rid of monogamy.

We had this relatively libertine
perspective on sexuality.

I believe DeFries had had intimate
relations with both Nancy and Ms. Moon.

Emily and I didn't perceive our marriage
as a typical exclusive relationship.

Ms. Moon and Camilla had been lovers at
one time.

Angela had been with Joe and Russ at the
same time, but they weren't there.

We didn't have rules, other than the
fact that it was expected that comrades

would be comradely. We all cared about
each other. We had a lot in common now

because we were wanted together.

We were all crime partners in the same
kidnapping.

Patty is first being introduced to these
ideas, the idea of revolution, the idea

of the selfishness.

of the upper class.

And here were people telling her that
women weren't second -class citizens,

they could be free human beings and make
their own decisions.

I can imagine that this would have been
very attractive to her and got her to

think, oh, maybe their cause really is
just.

This is something I could do. This would
give meaning to my life.

She's going to get a political education
because she's going back.

That was what I expected to happen.

Dad, Mom, I'm making this tape to let
you know that I'm still okay and

to explain a few things, I hope.

The darkest parts of the story that I
remember were receiving the communiques.

The family gathered around, you know,
there'd be complete silence.

First about the good faith gesture, just
do it as fast as you can.

And everything will be fine.

She does sound all right.

Doesn't mean she's out of danger, but at
least we know she's all right for the

moment. She's still being told what to
say.

That's clear.

But it's a little more of her in it.

These were all her words.

It was us giving her an idea of what we
needed to communicate through her.

Okay, look, here's what you got to do.
You got to let your family know that

you're okay.

I want them all to know that I'm okay
and to understand that I'll be okay as

long as the SLA demands are met.

Let them know that you're not being
harmed. You can tell them that you're

held under the Geneva Convention and
that this applies to our two comrades in

San Quentin.

I am being held as a prisoner of war and
not as anything

else. I mean, and I'm being treated in
accordance with international codes of

war.

I mean, Dad, you shouldn't listen or
believe what anybody else says about the

way I'm being treated. This is the way
that I am being treated.

That sounds totally like her own words.

You know, I mean, that's not our words.

That's not how we would say anything. It
wasn't anything that she would be

adverse to saying anyway.

It's merely saying what's real.

It's really important that everybody
understand that, you know, I am an

and a warning.

And because of this, it's very important
to the SLA that I return safely.

So people should stop acting like I'm
dead.

Mom should get out of her black dress.

That doesn't help at all.

It was shocking to hear Patty's soft,
whispery voice telling her mother, get

of the black dress, and then I'm not
dead.

You shouldn't be in mourning.

And there would be groans.

Catherine would burst into tears, and
she'd say, we're never going to see her

again. We're never going to save her.
She's dead.

And Randy would say, Catherine, that's
not the point. That's not the point.

Try not to worry so much and just do
what you can. And, I mean, I know you're

doing everything.

Just

take

care of Steve and, you know, just hurry.

Bye. Every communique that would come
out, I just had this obsessive need to

sort of tell myself what are the chances
this is going to come out okay. And I

remember there were times when I would
say, there isn't a 20 % chance she's

going to get out of this.

It just seemed like it was hopeless.

We didn't really want her life to be in
jeopardy. That didn't advance our

political goals.

So what we did to demonstrate that she
was not our enemy was we trained her

on how to use a little shotgun. If we
got in circles, she would have a shotgun

and she would have been able to defend
herself if cops came in and actually

tried to kill her too.

She's not a stereotypical Hollywood
victim.

I'm sure she's trying to calculate her
next move.

Hundreds of phone calls and dozens of
volunteers were coming in, offering

time, and money to put into effect the
food distribution plan the kidnappers

demanded.

The SLA had required that the food be
distributed to people who need it.

why it was called People in Need as a
program.

And so the food is flowing into the
China Basin, this enormous warehouse,

millions of dollars worth of food they
have to distribute.

Over the period of time, there were
hundreds of volunteers.

I'm assigned to the warehouse, and so
basically I'm a kind of glorified

guard. I'm helping Ludlow and Peggy get
some handle on all of this.

People in need was and remains
unprecedented in American history. A

crime leads to the creation of a social
service agency almost overnight. And

they really did start to give away food.

The things that I wanted to do were the
things that would inspire people to

understand that we get it why they're so
broke and can't feed their kids.

That it has nothing to do with them and
their particular limitations.

It has to do with an economy that
doesn't give a rat's ass about them.

Ronald Reagan was governor of California
at the time.

And the press came to me and they said,

We'd like you to respond to something
that the governor has just said to the

press. One of them read and he said,
well, Governor Reagan said today that he

hoped that anybody that took food from
your program got botulism.

And so I used a pejorative that started
with M or F -er.

What's your feeling about what Governor
Reagan said?

Well, obviously if I agreed with him, I
wouldn't be here today sending out the

13 locations.

The day that the People in Need program
started, I was assigned to follow A.

Ludlow Kramer. He was staying at a
downtown hotel in San Francisco, and I

assumed I would meet him there, and we
would immediately go to one of the

outlets. But we met, and he said he knew
it was all going to go so smoothly, so

he and I would have breakfast.

And I remember he had eggs benedict, and
meanwhile, there were riots.

that were occurring at the People in
Need program.

What was on TV was bedlam.

The trucks, they're throwing food at the
people standing in line, fish and eggs

and bread, and they were actually
throwing it.

That's just the most disgusting thing
I've ever seen, and it was...

broadcast everywhere.

The Hearst empire has attempted to
mislead the people and to deceive them

claiming to put forth a good faith
gesture of two million dollars.

This amount is not at all a good faith
gesture but rather is an act of throwing

a few crumbs to the people forcing them
to fight over it amongst themselves.

We agree with the need for Mr. Hearst to
meet those those terms but just think

of the difference if If our people had
said no to the kidnappers, we will not

accept help on those terms. We will not
accept help at the price of it being

the life of a young girl.

At some point, we provided Patricia with
a small television and a radio so she

could follow what was going on. So we
didn't keep her in the dark about

everything that was on the news about
her kidnapping.

The SLA was obsessed with their own
press coverage.

They watched it incessantly. They read
the newspapers incessantly.

The SLA sees that the food giveaway has
proceeded with problems, but it has

proceeded. So they say, let's do it
again.

Randy had spent $2 million. They make
another demand for an additional $4

million.

The plan proposed by Mr. Hearst.

is not at all acceptable as a gesture of
good faith in its present form.

It shall be acceptable only that an
additional $4 million be added to the $2

million already allotted, making a total
of $6 million to be used for the

purchase of food.

Death to the fascist insect that preys
upon the life of the people.

I'd like to make a statement.

The size of the latest demand of the SLA
is far beyond my financial capability.

Therefore, the matter is now out of my
hands.

Randy's dilemma is especially acute not
only because his daughter is in

mortal danger, but because the SLA
thinks he has more money than he does.

William Randolph Hearst set up his
company so that professional managers

always call the shots because he just
didn't trust any of his sons to live up

his example.

In the 1970s, Randy Hearst's title was
publisher of the San Francisco Examiner,

which was really the flagship paper of
the Hearst chain.

In fact, he was only sort of the
publisher. He was a figurehead, and he

had to go to his keepers.

in the Hearst world to get access to the
kind of cash that the SLA is talking

about. There were eight or ten board
members.

They weren't about to empty the coffers
to maybe get Patty back.

What's that going to tell all the other
cousins and nephews?

Everybody's going to be a kidnapping
frenzy.

When they blowballed, she went apeshit.

She thought he totally understated.

His ability.

That crushed her. That she thought that
she had been abandoned by her father.

That she thought would always be there
for her.

And what occurred to her was that this
was evidence that he was playing games

with her life.

She just figured her father could do
anything.

The next communique, Patty's pretty
angry.

Patty had...

Dramatically changed. Something,
something snapped.

Mom, Dad, I've received the message you
broadcast last Sunday.

It was good to hear from you after so
much silence.

Your silence has definitely jeopardized
my safety because it allows the FBI to

continue to attempt to find me.

and Governor Reagan to make antagonistic
statements with no response from you.

I don't know who influenced you to not
comply with a good faith gesture.

I know you could have done it the way
the SLA asked.

I mean, I know that we have enough
money.

I don't believe that you are doing
everything you can, everything in your

I don't believe that you're doing
anything at all.

You said that it was out of your hands.
What you should have said was that you'd

wash your hands of it.

Randy, and this was about the only time
I saw him slip where he said, Dad, it's

out of my hands. It's just an
unfortunate turn of phrase, and of

pretty angry.

Yeah, it was a slip -up, but we all had
slip -ups.

Mom, I can't believe that you agree with
the out -of -my -hand stance that Dad

has taken.

I just wish that you could be stronger
and pull yourself together from all

emotional outbursts.

and see if you can persuade that to
listen to you and the rest of the

She didn't sound as though she was
someone who was the victim anymore.

Over time, Patty, she developed a
rapport and a relationship with the

comrades that were dealing with her that
was unusual for those circumstances.

Willie spent a lot of time with her.
Willie had the closest connection to her

anybody based on class background.

And he spent a ton of time with her,
introducing her to some of the writers

had influenced him.

And Willie starts to explain to Patty
why he's joined the SLA.

And he starts giving her books to read.
And he starts listening to her and

talking to her in a way that's more like
a peer than as a kidnapper.

I realized that she developed an
infatuation with Willie.

And finally, I think Angela asked her,
is there anybody in the cell that she

wants to have sex with? And she said
she'd like to have sex with Willie.

And when Angela came back and revealed
this to us, it caused a big uproar.

It was a huge fight from that point.

I didn't want Willie and Patricia, even
if this was something that Patricia

wanted to do, to have sex. It wasn't
Willie's idea.

I wasn't able to really wrap my mind
around.

why this was ever going to turn out to
be a good thing. What happens after

She's got to go home. We're going to
release her to go home.

In the end, more comrades than Emily and
I agreed that they could have a sexual

encounter if they both wanted to have
one.

And then they were given some privacy
together, and that was it.

I think she found out what he looked
like that night when they had that

encounter. I'm sure he had her take her
blindfold off. So they abandoned the

facade. Out in the world, is she going
to say she wants to sleep with a guy

she's only seen with a ski mask on?

Look, you know what I want to explain?
There's one of those quirky things of

living in that kind of a circumstance.

It was unusual.

It's exactly how it went down.

Don't ask me to explain why it doesn't
fit to your sense of what makes sense.

This is what fucking happened.

Most people that I know of, you
included, never lived in that kind of a

circumstance.

The Bureau pulled out all the stops.

These guys were doing everything that
they could to find her.

Every law enforcement technique that
could possibly be used, I think, was

or attempted to be tried to one degree
or another.

They consulted a psychic.

They consulted three more psychics.

They listened to a prisoner who said, if
you let me out, I'll find you Patricia

Hearst. They let him out. He didn't find
Patricia Hearst.

Nobody really knew what to do. It's like
even seeing the psychics.

Everybody knew that wasn't going to work
anywhere, but it was like, got to do

something.

Patricia, she's sitting there watching
the spectacle from outside her home with

all the knucklehead news people talking
about shit, and also she doesn't really

get the sense that her family has her
well -being foremost in their minds, and

her mother was just grossing her out.

One of the reasons we had targeted the
family was Catherine's tenure as a

of the University of California.

The regents, who was no friend of the
students, thought they should behave,

been an ongoing subject of discord and
unhappiness ever since the free speech

movement. Catherine Hearst was tough.

She was a powerful figure in her own
right who could help Ronald Reagan in

mission. to crack down on the student
protesters and restore Berkeley to the

orderly place it had been in the 1950s.
After Perditch's kidnapping, she agreed

to a reappointment by Governor Reagan,
which is her way of flipping us off.

I think Catherine's acceptance of
reappointment, because it was so

slap at the SLA, really did have an
impact on...

Patty's relationship with the SLA and
her growing alienation from her own

family.

Patricia about had a cow.

That was the last straw.

Years ago, William Randolph Hearst
defined his idea of a news story.

said, are interested in the
fundamentals, love, romance, adventure,

mystery. The story of his granddaughter
is all of that, especially mystery.

The mystery of where she is now.

She desperately did not want to go home.

I didn't want her to be with us.

First of all, it wasn't safe for her to
remain with us. You know, by this time,

we're known. All of us are identified.

We're on the run right now.

If she could go home, she would be
repatriated in one way or another.

When we transported her to Golden Gate,
the tide was turning to her staying.

I don't remember why we left the house
on Northridge other than we couldn't

afford it anymore.

I mean, we went from a three -bedroom
house in a suburb near the ocean to nine

of us living in a studio apartment in
the ghetto.

One thing that appealed to the SLA about
this apartment was that it was on

exactly the same street as the FBI
office was.

There's a very common principle, hide in
plain sight.

That seems to work more effectively than
most people imagine.

By the time we moved to Golden Gate, She
goes from being a prisoner to already

suggesting to the comrades that are
dealing with her that she doesn't think

wants to go home.

She had to convince us that this wasn't
some bullshit, that she was going to

change her mind any second.

She was lobbying me when I finally
talked to her. I'm one of the last

that did it.

You know, I just figured I could, if
anybody can persuade her, it's me.

I'm going to persuade her this is a dumb
idea.

I didn't see it as political theater. I
thought this was some serious shit. You

want to do this, you're probably going
to die.

The FBI came, and he said, there's a new
communique that has just come in, and

it was Patty's voice. And Randy kind of,
you know, took this deep breath.

I would like to begin this statement by
informing the public that I wrote what

I'm about to say.

It's what I feel.

I've never been forced to say anything
on any tape.

There was a moment of truth when we had
a meeting and we were out in the

main room, the main room at Golden Gate,
and she's blindfolded.

And we're all sitting around, none of us
have ski masks.

And the question is posed to her, you
are now no longer a prisoner. We're

to release you somewhere.

that you agree to go.

We understand that you don't want to
leave and you don't want to go home. So

it's your choice. You can make the
choice here and then.

Mom, Dad, I would like to comment on
your efforts to supposedly secure my

safety.

My mother's acceptance of the
appointment to a second term as a UC

you well knew, would have caused my
immediate execution had the SLA been

than together about their political
goals.

No one amongst us ever concluded before
he brought it up that

this was even a remote possibility.

I have been given the choice of one,
being released in a safe area, or two,

joining the forces of the Symbionese
Liberation Army and fighting for my

and the freedom of all oppressed people.

I have chosen to stay and fight.

And that was it.

Done deal.

I have been given the name Tanya after a
comrade who fought alongside Che in

Bolivia for the people of Bolivia.

It is in the spirit of Tanya that I say,
patria muerte, venceremos.

She had joined the SLA.

It was as dramatic as hearing that she
had been kidnapped. It completely

everything. That was a terrible tape to
hear. We could hear some real anger in

her voice, real anger.

But the...

The statement she was making that she
really wanted to stay and fight just

seemed absurd.

After Patricia was accepted into the
cell, Willie presented her with a gift,

a stone artifact that he got in a dig in
Mexico.

She wore it around her neck all the
time. You know, she didn't take it off.

As much as I hated the idea of her
joining us, it was spectacular

Now the heiress wants to join the
kidnappers.

Just by saying that she had decided to
join us was only part of the equation.

You know, we had to prove that.

There does seem to have been a profound
change in her.

And I don't believe that she's going to
change her philosophy that quickly.

Who would have thought that Patricia
Hearst would be robbing a bank as a

revolutionary act?

She was ready to shoot anything that got
in her way. She must have been forced

to do it. She's a victim of thought
control.

LAPD, they were determined.

This heiress is about to be murdered on
live television.

For those people who still believe that
I'm brainwashed or dead.

We kidnapped a freak.