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This episode previously aired in 2022.

A listener note, this episode contains descriptions of violence and references to sexual assault

and may not be suitable for a younger audience.

It's late in the morning on January 11, 1974.

Sincu and Tume is tossing and turning on an old musty bed in Concord, California.

He has a splitting headache, and his mouth is hot and parched.

And as the sunshine slants in through broken blinds,

it feels like Sincu is being hit on the head

with a baseball bat. Sincu rubs his eyes and tries to shake off the misery. He's in the throes of another

brutal hangover, the predictable result of staying up late, drinking bottles of wine with his comrades

and talking until the early morning about how they're going

to change the world. There was a lot of conversation about the need to overthrow America's

systems of oppression and greed, and there were a lot of big promises about actions the group

is planning to take. But for Sincu, making promises has never been enough. He founded the

Symbionese Liberation Army,

a left-wing organization, to push for real change. And recently, Sincu led a dangerous mission

that got the whole Bay Area talking. Sincu and two of his comrades attacked the superintendent

of Oakland's public schools, a man named Marcus Foster. The superintendent wanted

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