traumatic in the age of isis and al qaeda. but this was a verien different era. and also a smaller media world, which didn t call attention to the bombings the way we would today. and the other reason is simply that it s a mystery story. it s about one woman s choices. did pat ri hearst really join with her captors, the people who kid. napped her, or was she coerced, forced. it s not just anyone. this is patty hearst. talk about power in this time and place. again, it s a window into the time. hearst was this enormous newspaper family. the great publisher was her grandfather. newspapers were the way most people got their information in the 1970s. and there were still vast newspaper fortunes. it s a window, again, into a world that s very different from our own. so patty hearst is kidnapped.