i was a young reporter at the san francisco examiner. that night i got a call, patty hearst had been kidnapped. that 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. and berkeley has a small police department and they immediately made a notification to the bureau and the bureau staffed up with everything they had in order to try to solve this case. i was in the hospital, just under a week. first time i saw lorinda and
for days on end with these 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 a unique and high priced ransom note. there was a crowd outside berkeley radio station as the morning mail was opened. there was a letter, while mr. and mrs. hearst listened in their home, a tape recording was played. mom, dad, i m okay. um, i had a few scrapes and stuff, but they washed them up and they re getting okay, and i m not being starved or beaten. she was alive. obviously terrified, stressed out.
patricia hearst has sent her parents a message and her captors have sent them a unique and high-priced ransom note. there was a crowd outside berkeley radio station kpfa the morning mail was opened. there was a letter. while mr. and mrs. hearst listened in their hillsborough home, a tape recording was played. mom, dad? i m okay. um i 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. defreeze was talking to her at
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 getaway car. it had been stolen and abandoned. police didn 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, 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 red and catherine is after i got out of the hospital. they greeted me at the door. i made a short statement.
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 with these 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 a unique and high priced ransom note. there was a crowd outside berkeley radio station as the morning mail was opened. there was a letter. newsmen rushed in to hear it read on the air. then while mr. and mrs. hearst lived in their hillsborough home, a tape recording was played. mom, dad, i m okay. i had a few scrapes and stuff, but they washed them up and they re getting okay. i m not being starved or beaten.