hostage reaction, the term stockholm syndrome hadn t yet become current. it was a fascinating case, in stockholm, last year, you recall it, there was a bank robbery in stockholm. one of the women who was held hostage is waiting for the robber to get out of jail to marry him. what?! just this traumatic experience in which the individual is reduced to total helplessness and begins to identify in a human sense with the captor. good evening. patti hearst has been taken into custody. the fbi says patti hearst was picked up today in san francisco. the hearst newspaper heiress has been missing for 19 months. by the time patti is finally apprehended, it s almost anticlimactic. patti s famous line when she s taken to the courthouse and asked her occupation, she replies, you are began guerilla. miss hearst was brought into a group of young people who saw
they re just going about them the wrong way. initially, patti s kidnapping progresses exactly like you would expect. but then things start to get seriously weird. patty hearst thinks she has now tanya x, the newest recruit from the symbionese liberation army. i ve changed and i can never go back to the life i led before. at least, initially, there s widespread skepticism that patty hearst would join this group. it wasn t until she actually showed up in the middle of an sla bank robbery with a machine gun that suddenly all the country, all the world realized that this heiress was now part of an underground terrorist group. she held that weapon like she would use it? yes, absolutely. i thought she would. any minute. people really didn t understand at this time the hostage reaction, the term