Introducing: American Hostage

True Crime Campfire

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 5 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, Camper's Katie here.
0:02.8	I just started listening to this new True Crime Podcast, American Hostage, and honestly,
0:08.0	I am so happy I can binge it all at once because every episode leaves you hanging.
0:14.9	Set in Indianapolis in 1977, American Hostage is a suspenseful true story starring John
0:20.3	Hamm as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who is forced into the middle of a
0:25.4	life or death crisis when a hostage taker, Tony Curitzis, demands to be interviewed live
0:30.5	on his popular radio news program.
0:33.2	Through Heckman's radio show, Curitzis gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected
0:38.2	national hero during a nail-biting 63-hour police standoff.
0:43.0	I'm about to play you a preview of American Hostage.
0:45.8	While you're listening, follow American Hostage wherever you get your podcasts, or you
0:50.2	can binge the entire season right now on Amazon Music or Wandery Plus.
0:59.2	The seven-second delay for live television was introduced in 1975 by NBC so that Richard
1:05.0	Pryor could host Saturday Night Live without the network getting fined for all of his obscenities.
1:10.7	The delay would also be useful if a man were to be shot point blank in the head, live
1:16.5	on national television.
1:47.5	Yes, this the police?
1:48.5	This is 911 dispatches.
1:50.5	Is Lieutenant Collins there?
1:52.5	Uh, no sir, he's not on display.
1:54.5	Well, who you got there?
1:55.5	Who you got there ranked high enough to take this call?
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