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Our first guest, Patty Hearst, the
victim of the most bizarre kidnapping

in American history.

Carried, kicking and screaming from her
California apartment, shoved into the

trunk of a car and fed off into the
night.

Four months later, she stunned the world
with the announcement that she joined

her captors. She became a gun -toting
revolutionary and was branded a common

criminal. Less than 30 minutes ago, we
arrested Patty Hearst at 625... Four

counts of robbery.

Five pounds of assault with a deadly
weapon with intent to murder.

Authorities said they found 10 automatic
weapons in the Hearst apartment.

How in the world does the granddaughter
of William Randolph Hearst become a

terrorist?

The Seminese Liberation Army kidnapped
someone from American nobility.

It's a story that is violent.

I was kidnapped by terrorists,
brutalized by them, a threat constantly

you'll be killed if you don't cooperate.
It finally breaks you down.

My name is William Taylor Harris.

Ask me a question.

Did you kidnap Patty Hearst?

I personally took Patty Hearst out of
her apartment and put her into a getaway

car.

Reality isn't always on the surface, you
know.

Sometimes you have to look a little bit
deeper to see what's real.

Is she America's most famous crime
victim?

Or is she the most famous rich turncoat
in American history?

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.

Rich 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.

Looking at it 40 or 45 years later,
however long it's been, it wasn't a

story.

When somebody you love is close to you
is kidnapped, it's a particular

kind of torture that it's very hard to
understand unless it's actually happened

to you. She did change. And it wasn't
too many months before I realized that

weren't getting back together.

Everything was crushed. It was gone. It
was done.

But I'm just trying to try, you know, if
it was a documentary and you want the

history. You want to know what it was
like before the kidnapping. That's my

answer.

1972,

I went to work at Crystal Springs
teaching math and geometry. It was a

private girl's school, and she came to
some guitar classes I was giving.

I don't think she really was interested
in learning the guitar. She just wanted

to... hang out with one of the older
teachers.

That was the first introduction, and
then she would find ways to talk to me,

then finally one day she just showed up
at my house for some math tutoring, and

that became a constant thing eventually.

Patty and Steve have always said that
their romance began when Steve was 23

she was 16.

By my accounting, It may well have been
she was 15, but as both Steve and Patty

have subsequently said, it was Patty who
targeted Steve for romance first, not

the other way around.

I never would have initiated something
like that, but I was receptive over

She knew what she wanted, and she just
went for it, and she was kind of

fearless, actually.

Patty was just 18 years old when she
decided to move in with Steve Weed, and

they got a nice little apartment very
near the campus of Berkeley.

Her father was pretty easygoing about
it. How are you going to shack up with

daughter?

Well, you just treat her nicely. The
mother was very unhappy about it, but

didn't show it. Her breeding was to be
polite, and she was, and I appreciated

it. In the 1970s, Randy Hurst... title
was publisher of the San Francisco

Examiner. He would come into the office,
although not be there necessarily every

day. He would be working at the paper,
and then he'd say, well, tomorrow I'm

going to go duck hunting, just reminding
us inadvertently that he led a very

different kind of life than the rest of
us did.

The name Hearst really meant something
in America. It was really synonymous

big corporations, big media, and
outstanding, over -the -top wealth.

To the extent that California held up
any family as royalty, you'd have to say

it was the Hearst. And, you know, that
made Patty in her own small little way a

princess.

Patty's grandfather, William Randolph
Hearst, owned dozens of newspapers.

And he didn't just own them, he used
them for political and economic power.

Hearst was a larger -than -life figure.
He was more than a businessman. He was a

celebrity before there were celebrities.

Orson Welles wrote and directed Citizen
Kane as the life story of William

Randolph Hearst.

Randy and Catherine Hearst lived with
their five daughters in Hillsborough, a

very wealthy, beautiful community on the
peninsula.

Randy treated Patty, of his five
daughters, the most like a son, because

tough.

He channeled it on the outings that they
went on together.

They went hiking. They went fishing.
They went hunting. And he taught her to

shoot.

Her relationship to her mother was a lot
more problematic.

Catherine was, she was a southern belle.

She was a woman that had come from
Georgia, swept off her feet by the

cosmopolitan Hearst air.

I wouldn't call her snobby, but she had
an upper class kind of attitude.

Her mother.

wanted Patty to do well in school, come
out in society, go to college, but

basically lead her mother's life.

She was in rebellion against some of the
strictures that her mother in

particular imposed on her, like convent
schools.

She loathed convent schools, and she got
thrown out of several of them.

She wanted independence.

She really wanted to become an adult,
was really what it was.

I was just a college student at
Berkeley, and I was living with my

You know, I was just like a dumb 19
-year -old, that's about it.

We lived in a two -story townhouse.

There was...

Still kind of a dicey street scene in
Berkeley.

Petty crime.

It was fairly rampant.

I think three days before the
kidnapping, a couple showed up at night

little bit sketchy, asking about
rentals.

It didn't seem right.

In retrospect, obviously, they were
checking us out. But at the time, we

dismissed it as another, you know,
random Berkeley kind of thing.

But we weren't at all paranoid.

We just finished having dinner, watching
a TV show, and getting ready to study,

and there was a knock on the door. There
was a woman at the front door.

There was a person standing there, and I
had moved into the kitchen. And what I

could hear was that they thought they'd
hit a car downstairs, they said, and

could they use the phone?

And then with that, people just burst
into the apartment.

It couldn't have been three or four
seconds before two men pushed through

front door.

They pushed me back, shouting, get your
face on the floor, get your face on the

floor. Your mind's come trying to grips
with, what is this? What's going on?

They started kicking me and hitting me.

There was just a gun in my face, and I
was pushed down to the kitchen floor.

I was tied up and gagged and
blindfolded, and I bit down on the gag

had just assumed that they were going to
burglarize the apartment.

At about that point, they started
demanding, where's the safe, where's the

money? I was trying to figure out what
was happening, and the natural

is that it was a robbery.

I could hear Patty whimpering in the
other room.

I said, we don't have a safe.

Take anything you want, just leave us
alone.

Every time I'd look up, they'd kick me
in the face.

I do remember the woman saying, they've
seen our faces, we have to get rid of

them.

We had this $1 bottle of romance wine.

And they grabbed one and started hitting
me on the head with it really hard.

And even if he's not trying to kill me,
he's going to. He's going to bash my

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

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

I lurched up.

Instead of running out the front door, I
just went running around the living

room, yelling at the top of my lungs,
knocking over furniture, knocking over

plants,

just banging into things, just hoping
the distraction would drive them away.

I opened the door, went out on the back
patio.

jumped over the fence, started banging
on the neighbor's door.

Even in my state of delirium, I could
tell that they weren't going to answer

door. I could realize I was terrifying
somebody inside.

I assumed it was a robbery going bad.

I didn't know at the time, of course. I
learned a lot later that it was the SLA.

Patty Hearst was kidnapped by a small,
violent, revolutionary group called the

SLA.

To understand the SLA, you have to
understand Berkeley in 1973.

And to understand Berkeley in 1973, you
have to understand the 60s and what San

Francisco became.

If you were radical in the 60s and early
70s, if you wanted

to change the world, you were at least
giving a passing thought to going to

Berkeley.

It had become...

a huge melting pot for young people who
wanted a brighter, more beautiful

future.

There was so much turmoil in those
years.

There had been the civil rights movement
and then the anti -war movement, and

young people were rebellious, they were
protesting, and they had a sense of

power, that we can make a difference,
that we could end the war in Vietnam.

By the 70s, there was...

anger and an incredible amount of
violence that we can hardly imagine

It was as close to a revolutionary
situation in some people's minds as we'd

had.

Once you get beat up a few times by the
cops when you protest, you have to make

a choice between turning the other cheek
or do something more extraordinary in

reaction.

to the violence of the state. They were
killing us on college campuses.

Nixon is definitely looking at students
as the enemies in the country right now.

We have to go underground.

I think it looks pretty bad for us.

A lot of these groups got even more
radical because they believed that there

should be a revolution, that it will be
an armed revolution that needs to

overthrow the government. And so a lot
of these groups...

They studied basic Marx, they studied
Lenin, they studied communism in

underground cells, and they truly
believed that the only way that you

change a society for the better was to
have this armed revolution.

We felt that we had to kind of ramp up
the response.

Shit was hitting the fan everywhere.

I didn't come to this conclusion to do
what I was doing in two weeks or a

You know, it was a huge evolution.

I graduated high school in 1963.

The civil rights movement was ramping
up, but I had no political consciousness

of any kind.

Vietnam totally flipped my perspective.

My first day in Vietnam, I had to
witness the torture of a Vietnamese

When you get in that kind of a level of
conflict, it's really hard to adjust

coming back home.

Really, Vietnam was the precursor to the
SLA.

I met Emily late January of 1968.

She was a sorority girl.

You know, Emily evolved during our
relationship from a person that didn't

any politics to somebody that felt
strongly about her politics.

And as she got more involved in women's
issues, she became more and more

radicalized from her own self -interest.

Emily and I got married in November of
1971.

We moved to the Bay Area to get involved
in political work.

I looked up an old friend from college
that I found out was getting more deeply

involved in things.

I met Angela Atwood in the theater
department of Indiana University.

She always had ideas influenced by...
modern feminist thinking, and,

you know, she went through dramatic
changes during the same period.

The three of us were interested in
getting more deeply involved in things.

We didn't really know anybody to hook up
with until I met Joe Romero.

Joe invited me to a community meeting.

It was at this meeting that I met
another future comrade, Russ Little.

We started planning for the future.

We're kind of on a path to where this
shit is going to necessarily escalate.

We're going to catch people's attention
because we're going to do something

audacious.

Patty and I, we just had a really good
life together.

She was fun -loving. She was easy to get
along with.

We had great times together.

We'd travel not just to St.

Simeon and Wintune and the other Hearst
places, but we went on road trips

together, and Patty was really getting
anchored in her art history, and

everything seemed like it was heading in
the right direction.

Patty and I decided we should get
married.

We announced our engagement through the
examiner, of course.

And we were looking forward to it.

While Steve Weed and Patty Hearst are
going about their everyday business in

Berkeley, the SLA is starting to form in
a very different place, in a prison.

One of the key aspects of the political
environment in the Bay Area was the

prison movement.

For a lot of radicals in the 70s, prison
symbolized everything that was wrong

with American society.

It's racism, it's violence, it's
oppression of poor people. And the

the prisons as a place where they could
foment revolutionary change.

At that time, Joe and Russ were doing
work inside the California prison

It's inherently political if the process
of the system hammers

people of color more than white people.

This is the beginning of things like
mass incarceration.

This is how we deal with poverty.

We lock it up.

Since Berkeley was the epicenter of the
protest movement, it was a place where

radicals wanted to try to spread the
gospel to prisons.

And the nearest prison was Vacaville.

And so you had this pipeline where
students and ex -students at Berkeley

go to Vacaville sort of as teachers, but
really as political organizers.

One prisoner really stood out as the
leader of the political

group in the prison, and that was Donald
DeVries.

Donald DeVries was...

basically a professional criminal.

He'd been in and out of prison his whole
life, but what landed him there for the

last time was when he beat up a
prostitute, stole a check from her, and

cash it, and he got caught.

Willie Wolfe was an upper -middle -class
kid, a physician's son from New

Milford, Connecticut, who went to
Berkeley to try to be an archaeologist.

But in short order, he became
radicalized.

And he became part of this group that
spent its time going to Vacaville

And he became friends with Donald
DeVries, Joe Romero, and Russ

Little.

DeVries had a plan.

Back then, all the jobs in the prison
were done by a convict.

DeVries knew enough from talking to
other prisoners that manning the boilers

a job outside the fence.

And the first time they sent him to his
job, he stayed there for a couple hours

and he was gone.

I'm not certain who picked him up.

I always thought it was Willie.

When DeVries escaped, that was the
beginning of the SLA.

Donald DeVries goes to the only place he
knows.

that he's likely to get a warm welcome.

And that's Berkeley.

He hooks up on the outside with some of
the students who had been visiting him

on the inside.

And that includes Joe Romero, Willie
Wolf, Russ Little. And in their social

circle are Nancy Ling Perry and Ms. Moon
Soltysik.

Ms. Moon and Nancy wind up moving in
with Donald DeVries.

they start coming up with these ideas
about revolutionary change.

The three of them become the nucleus of
the Symbionese Liberation Army.

The Symbionese Liberation Army committed
a horrendous crime before kidnapping

Patty Hearst. That incident gets lost
when we talk about the Patty Hearst

kidnap.

During the fall of 1973,

Donald DeVries is a fugitive.

So he can't be out and about.

So he sits in the apartment and he
stews.

And then one night on TV, DeVries sees a
piece on the Oakland superintendent of

schools. The schools cannot do the job
of education in the big cities alone.

Marcus Foster became a controversial
figure.

partially because he was trying to have
a police presence in the schools and

establish a kind of ID system for the
students.

The concern was that the police would be
in the schools not to protect the

students, but to control them.

DeVries became convinced that Foster had
to be killed.

One night, Marcus Foster...

was walking from the school board
building to his car.

They waited for the end of a school
board meeting.

And as he walked into the parking lot,
they shot Marcus Foster dead at point

-blank range.

The theory was that DeVries, Nancy Ling
Perry, and Ms. Moon Soltysik were the

shooters, and Joe Romero and Russ Little
were the lookouts.

Romero and Little had guns with them,
but they were not involved in the

shooting. In the communicator
newspapers, the SLA took credit for

murder. It was the first time anyone had
ever heard of the group.

They were proud of what they had done,
and they put out a press release or a

statement saying they had done this.

The SLA was not indiscriminately issuing
death words for Foster, Blackburn, or

anyone else.

Such an attack was the only means left
open to us to demand that the people's

wishes be met and that all such
dangerous genocidal programs be stopped.

I was surprised by it. I didn't know
they even existed.

So I was thinking, oh my goodness.

I mean, hell, I thought the Panthers did
it.

The bullets that were used to kill him
were cyanide -tipped.

They knew how to draw attention to
themselves.

I've never heard of anybody putting
cyanide into a lethal round. I've never

heard of that. So it was a mark of the
SLA.

My reaction was, who the hell are these
guys?

We better find out who they are and what
they're about.

Patty and I had no interest in politics.
Politics was not part of our life. It

was not part of Patty's life in any
respect whatsoever.

I'm emphasizing that because a lot has
been said that paints her as somebody

who was already picking up politics.

It's not true.

There was even a theory floated later,
very seriously by a lot of people, that

she had been in on her own kidnapping.

It's crazy.

We're very much in the middle of the
counterculture movement, but it just did

not affect us one way or another.

Everybody had heard of the SLA because
of the assassination of Marcus Foster.

was all in the news. We heard about it,
but we didn't know anything about the

people that were in the SLA.

did have a dramatic sense about him. He
was the one who came up with the name of

the Symbionese Liberation Army.

Symbionese, which was based on symbiosis
between students and prisoners.

De Vries, too, came up with the logo of
the seven -headed cobra.

And the seven values of each head of the
cobra were the same values

that underline the African holiday of
Kwanzaa.

It would certainly be a mistake to think
that the Symbionese Liberation Army had

some sort of clear agenda for change.

They believed if you engaged in small
-scale but

intense violent struggle, that would set
off a larger revolution.

How it would work, what they would do,
was very unclear.

The SLA in killing Marcus Foster
established that they were completely

isolated, even from possible allies in
the counterculture.

But then they get three new recruits.

We were approached and asked if we
wanted to meet the people who carried

Foster assassination.

Emily and I and Angela were taken to a
location where hoods were put over our

head, and we were led into a van, and we
were transported up to a place we

didn't know where we were. We had no
idea.

Emily and Angela and I were just, you
know, trying to understand what was

on and listening to what they had to
say.

Because of the nature of the foster
assassination, I was prepared to

not be impressed.

were not happy with that particular
operation.

I think they were troubled by it enough
to talk to Emily and me and Angela about

hooking up with them and separating off
into a separate cell. That was my

intention always.

Combination of impatience, despair, the
real malaise of my own existence, you

know, and the ineffectualness of the
left was what caused me to make this

decision.

We're about the beginning of January,
okay, of 1974, when we

finally come to that decision.

January 10th, 1974, literally changed my

whole life and all of my plans.

Joe and Ross were driving in their van
back to the safe house. They were...

running errands, picking up guns that
had been altered.

They went to a printing unit and picked
up a stack of drawings of the seven

-headed cobra.

The leaflets were propaganda presenting
what the program at the SLA was in hopes

of recruiting comrades.

I don't even think they noticed the cop,
and all of a sudden he pulls them over

out of the blue.

Instead of coming back to the driver's
side, he goes to the passenger's side

tells Joe to get out of the van.

They're both armed, and they have
illegal guns and some leaflets that

them to something much more serious.

They ended up in a shootout at close
quarters that had both of them so

out. that they missed each other.

The

leaflets,

however, were a big, big problem that
connects them to the Foster

Joe or the rest of them, he had a
Walther PPK that was one of the murder

that he had let one of the women use to
shoot Foster.

They were charged with being the actual
shooters of Marcus Foster, and they were

not.

And I realized that very soon it would
be determined that they were associated

with us.

And so in reality, what we're going to
have to do is we're going to have to

disappear.

Joseph Romero and Russell Little were
arrested for Foster's murder.

They refused to talk about their
membership in the Symbionese Liberation

Joe and Russ were arrested a few blocks
away from the safe house.

There were so many cops in the area
trying to figure out what was going on

free Nancy and Ms. Moon. They had to
abandon that safe house.

They had things that were stored in this
house, and it had been a safe house,

I'm not even sure for how long, but a
long time.

Boxes and boxes of stuff.

After they soaked the house in about 20
gallons of gasoline, they attempted to

torch the house.

And unfortunately, someone lowered the
garage door.

All the windows were closed because it
was wintertime.

But when they closed the garage door, it
cut off the oxygen to the fire and

immediately went out and left everything
in perfect condition almost for the

feds and the police to go through.

In the house in which they lived in a
quiet San Francisco suburb, police found

weapons,

revolutionary literature, and material
linking them to the SLA.

My original decision was to be with some
people federated with the SLA.

Okay? There's a distinction in my mind.

And ten days later, John Russell
arrested.

And that throws everything out the
window. The circumstances had made our

for us.

We were going underground immediately.

At this point, the SLA consisted of Bill
Harris, Emily Harris, and Angela

Atwood, Donald DeFreeze, Willie Wolf,
Nancy Ling Perry, and Ms. Moon

Soltysik. And she had a lover named
Camilla Hall, and she also joined the

When the police start...

going through the Concord House, they
start to find the SLA's list, and on one

of the lists is possible kidnap victims.

And there is a young college student
named Patricia Hurst, because they had

her engagement announcement in the San
Francisco Examiner.

The police never warned anyone on that
list.

The months and months before we were
ever introduced to the members of the

they had been acquiring intelligence on
potential local targets,

including maybe a couple of news
articles announcing Patricia's betrothal

Stephen Weed.

Articles didn't say where she lived, but
they gave enough information to easily

find it out.

The decision to kidnap Patricia Hearst
was the direct result of Joe and Russ's

arrest.

We had to do it as a matter of
principle, possibly work toward an

It also was a result of our general
politics and who we targeted in our

minds as being enemies of the people.

We had already determined that Hearst
was a particular easy target and that

propaganda that could be generated from
it was perfect.

Bill and Emily and Angela came out of
the theater program at Indiana

And this was a time when theater had a
very political component.

It was known as guerrilla theater.

And they believed in using...

in using propaganda as a way of exposing
the

contradictions in modern society and
recruiting people to their cause.

One idea that Bill and the others start
to discuss is instead of killing people,

why don't we kidnap someone?

Why don't we use someone as a living
pawn to

symbolize the nature of our
revolutionary activity.

Emily and I and Angela's influence was
to do things that were more inspiring

that weren't as scary.

We had to do things that not only
inspired people because they were

forceful, but they had to be relevant.

Patricia Hearst was a symbolic target.
She was an heiress. Her family

was... in control of a media empire that
we viewed as

an arm of propaganda for the United
States government.

She was more of an innocent, if there
ever was one, which we're trying to

explain is the symbolic connection to
Joe and Russ.

She's innocent, they're innocent.

We're going to treat her like you're
supposed to treat them.

It didn't take us long to do the
surveillance.

She was in an ideal location.

There was no security.

Her front door was right there, handy
-dandy. And her apartment was blocked

the street, so there wasn't going to be
a lot of easy sidelines for people to

see what was going on or even hear.

I think it was a weeknight that we
chose.

Everybody in the group was involved in
the operation.

Willie's driving, Ms. Moon's the
passenger. In the VW, Emily's car is

about three spaces down the street.

Camilla was driving the getaway car.

And DeVries, me, and Angela had to
handle everything that went on inside

house.

Everybody's armed.

It was dark, and so nobody saw us going
up there.

Nobody saw us going up there.

I kind of recall being on the right of
the door and DeFreeze was on the left.

DeFreeze and I bracketed the door where
they couldn't see us.

Knock on the door.

Angela alluded to an accident and asked
to use the phone.

DeFreeze grabs Wheat and put him on the
ground.

Angela pounced on Patricia and started
to secure her with clothesline -type

rope. And so I'm basically standing
there with my machine gun now in plain

making sure nobody came back in or out.

DeVries had some belief that they're so
rich they must have a safe.

DeVries is demanding to know where the
safe is, you know.

And, of course, they're flummoxed. We
don't have a safe, you know. He has no

idea that we're kidnapping his fiancée.
He was scared shitless.

I remember him saying, don't harm us,
take whatever you want.

DeVries kept telling me, keep your
fucking head down. He kept looking up.

almost like a total compulsion.

All he had to do was lay there.

Nothing would have happened to him.

All of a sudden, Weed jumps up and is
hauling ass right at me to escape from

front door.

And, man, I'm not planning on this. He's
like, you know, 6 '1", 6 '2". He's a

tall, skinny guy.

And, you know, I'm 5 '6", 145 pounds,
man.

I'm a little light in the ass. But now I
got to make sure that he doesn't leave.

I'm like, oh, fuck, here we go. So he
comes up screaming, and he's like

me dead in the face.

And I just come up with my machine gun,
and I whack him in his chin. Bam!

and knock him back. I got him a good
one, and he fell back, and I think then

freeze knocked him out some more.

You know, Weed was not in a position to
do much of anything, and he ended up

looking bad about it, you know?

He didn't get himself shot, so big
fucking deal, you know? It's like, you

yeah, I guess he could have got himself
shot, and then he would look like Roy,

but he'd be a dead Weed instead of a
live Weed.

Earth is tied up in Gagnon blindfolded.

She's a petite person, so I pick her up
and I sling her over my shoulder in a

fireman's carry and proceed to leave
with her.

I leave DeFries and Angela in the
apartment.

Weed. He jumps up again and screams out
of the house.

And we're gone.

We're gone by that time. He thought he
had escaped us.

Come out to the courtyard, walk down the
steps next to the garage.

I was losing control of her on my
shoulder. I reached down, and I opened

to the trunk.

As soon as I let go of the trunk and
take my left hand to further secure her,

the damn spring on the trunk immediately
shuts the lid and locks it.

She's tied up in mine, so I set her
down, and I run around to the side of

car. Give me the key. So I get the key
again. I come back around.

She's not even there.

Fuck! I unlocked the fucking trunk, and
I realized I gotta, like, not do it too

hard, and I closed it slightly, and I
started looking for her. She's, like,

there. And so I look around, and sure
enough, she's hobbled into the fucking

garage.

Go and grab her and throw her in the
trunk.

I must have made too much racket.

Neighbors, who were situated across from
her and next door to her, came out of

their apartment.

DeVries turned around.

Blasted four or five rounds to get them
to back off.

That woke up Nancy, who's sitting
shotgun in Emily's car.

And so she got off a few rounds, too.

We're ready to boogie. Willie can see
that we're ready to go. He pulls out of

his spot.

We pull out of the driveway, come up
behind him.

Emily comes up behind us. We make it
around the corner. All of a sudden, out

nowhere, here comes a Berkeley cop who
stops.

The VW with Willie and Ms. Moon in it.

Now, this is not even 30 seconds after
all this

gunfire.

I'm thinking this is the cop responding
to the fucking gunfire.

So now we're armed to the gills, and
here we are. We're going to get a

with a cop. If he's detaining the lead
car, we can't move.

We're going to have to blast this guy.

And then we see the lights come on in
the VW.

The cops stopped them because they
didn't have their lights on.

And he rolled up his window and moved
past us.

He's going by.

I'm looking at him.

He's going like, I can see him do this
as he's driving by. So the call's coming

in to him.

He just happened to show up a little bit
late.

And we got to wait.

On a big kidnapping on the West Coast,
the victim is Patricia Hurst.

Mom, Dad, I'm okay.

She was clearly terrorized. Do what they
say, Dad, just do it quickly.

Just flat out barking mad.

She desperately did not want to go home.
We had to prove that.

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.

I think she was spectacular.

She's a victim of thought control.

56 days in the closet turned her into an
urban gorilla. The police wanted to be

the ones that caught us or killed us.

It is the longest, most intense shootout
in the city's history.

There isn't a 20 % chance she's going to
get out of this.

Patty had dramatically changed.
Something, something snapped.

She's not a stereotypical Hollywood
victim.

We kidnapped a freak.