Introducing: American Hostage

Criminology

Emash Digital

True Crime

4.7 • 7K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

In the series premiere, radio DJ Fred Heckman (Jon Hamm) receives an unexpected call from a listener that turns his life upside down.

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0:00.0	Hey criminology fans, Morphin'i want to tell you about a new true crime podcast called
0:05.8	American Hostage.
0:07.2	I just started listening to this one, it's amazing, and I love the fact that you can
0:12.9	binge it all at once.
0:14.8	Because this is the type of podcast where every episode leaves you hanging.
0:20.2	And this is an extremely fascinating case.
0:23.6	That in Indianapolis in 1977, American Hostage is a suspenseful true story starring John
0:31.1	Han.
0:32.3	As Fred Heckman, Fred was a beloved local radio reporter who was forced into the middle
0:39.2	of a life or death crisis when a hostage taker, Tony Curitzis, demanded to be interviewed.
0:47.0	Live on his popular radio news program, it was through Heckman's radio show that Curitzis
0:54.4	gradually became a media sensation and an unexpected national hero during a nail-biting 63-hour
1:02.6	police standoff.
1:04.1	I'm about to play you a preview of American Hostage.
1:07.8	While you're listening, follow American Hostage wherever you get your podcasts or you can
1:13.7	binge the entire season right now on Amazon Music or Wonder Plus.
1:23.9	The 7-second delay for Live Television was introduced in 1975 by NBC so that Richard
1:29.7	Pryor could host Saturday Night Live without the network getting fined for all of his
1:33.7	obscenities.
1:35.4	The delay would also be useful if a man were to be shot point blank in the head, live
1:41.2	on national television.
2:09.0	Yes, this is the police.
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