and access to the press. and she used it like a master. the committee conducts an extensive mail campaign. patty hearst s family organizes this tremendous effort to commute her sentence. but they were helped by something that came completely out of the blue. jones town was a cult ran by a man named jim jones and he was a very charismatic manipulative person. he was essentially a con artist. he moved hiss people to a compound in guille guyana. their passports were taken away. a congressman came over to check on them because these were u.s. citizens. as they were leaving they shot
offensive to change public opinion to get jimmy carter to commute her sentence. she doled out interviews to sympathetic reporters who didn t know all the facts of the case. they focused on the victim part exclusively. since she s been observed on television and in magazines as a victim and not as an urban guerrilla, the narrative has been altered dramatically. so it s not that hard to pull off. when you have a media empire that s barking your play, that s a big play. her family recruits democrats, republicans, ronald reagan also endorses this effort. you can t blame patty hearst for that, her family, any family would have tried to do it, but most families wouldn t have had the money, the connection, the influence to do what her family could do. patty hearst had her story
didn t trust her as a witness. charging the murder case was 7 to life. and we were allowed to work out a plea and i m sure that had a lot to do with patty hearst not wanting to testify and having the power to go with that. we were told the sla members were going to plead guilty. we at least knew that there was some level of justice being done and we would get to kind of face the people that brought us so much sorrow and grief. whether her murder was a kairlekai careless accident or a planned she was dead and our family was devastated. they had plenty of opportunities after that to learn from their mistakes and to refrain from further violence without necessarily giving up their imaginary cause. i do believe emily harris admitted that she was the one that pulled the trigger and
deals with that dissonance unless she has so repressed it that she doesn t even consider it. i don t know. it s certainly something that i wouldn t want to relive ever. you know, i just think i tried to make a life in spite of it. if you were to stack patty and tania next to each other, clearly the most interesting person is tania. i mean, i m still impressed to this very day with her as a comrade. she endeared herself to me over and over again. i remember that person. i remember that person more than i can imagine the person that she s reverted to. she s a rich lady in the suburbs. she raises dogs for dog shows. i was talking to one of the press during the patty hearst case, and he asked me what i thought of patty hearst. and i said i think she s water. she takes the shape of the glass she s poured into.
we could be prosecuted and that s the carmichael bank robbery. during her trial for robbing the hybernia bank, the fbi agent that was in charge of the case at the time, he said he would be willing to offer patricia hearst immunity, not for the bank robbery, but for other circumstances, if she would make herself available to the fbi. right now patricia hearst has her own version of the bank robbery. ms. hearst named a half does ze members of the sla team. we had been accused in the newspaper of involvement in the carmichael bank robbery as early