206 - The Strange Kidnapping of Patty Hearst
Timesuck with Dan Cummins
Dan Cummins
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🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 123 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we dissect the oh so strange kidnapping and subsequent criminal activities committed |
| 0:05.2 | along with her captors of patty herst aka Patricia herst aka the daughter of Randolph herst aka |
| 0:12.8 | the granddaughter of one of the richest men on earth when he was alive William Randolph herst |
| 0:19.6 | patty came from so much privilege she was someone who knew from the moment she could comprehend |
| 0:23.8 | what money was and what it could do for you that she would personally never want for cash |
| 0:28.5 | that her financial needs would always be taken care of thanks to immense family wealth she lived |
| 0:34.1 | a sheltered life free from the worries and struggles most of the world faces and have always faced |
| 0:38.1 | at least she did until she was kidnapped at the age of 19 by the Symbianese liberation army |
| 0:43.9 | a group of berthly radicals led by Donald de Freese born into almost opposite circumstances |
| 0:49.9 | Patricia and Donald's lives would collide when Donald who'd formed a group of radical militants |
| 0:55.0 | with some friends he'd met in prison decided to kidnap patty in an attempt to make her wealthy |
| 0:59.6 | family feed the hungry of San Francisco a step towards the destruction of what he saw as an evil |
| 1:04.8 | oppressive American society built on capitalistic greed Donald wanted to start a revolution and he |
| 1:10.5 | saw kidnapping the air to a media empire is being a big step towards kicking that shit off and while |
| 1:16.6 | the revolution never came it wasn't due to lack of effort the SLA was no joke they executed herst |
| 1:21.4 | kidnapping with ruthless efficiency and carried out murders robberies and bombings and patty herst |
| 1:27.0 | not long after her kidnapping began to help commit some of these crimes people around the world watched |
| 1:32.4 | in awe as a strange story unfolded after patty's kidnapping his days turning to weeks and weeks |
| 1:37.8 | turned into months they watched his patty transition from pleading for her family to bring her home |
| 1:42.8 | to blaming her family for many of society's hills and telling the world that the SLA was a |
| 1:47.4 | noble organization she was proud to be a soldier within this organization Patricia denounced |
| 1:52.9 | her family and multiple recorded messages that were played for all of America over the radio |
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