Kidnapping American Royalty: The Patty Hearst Story | Captive | 97
Even the Rich
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🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Imagine if Paris Hilton was kidnapped back when she was just a teenager – and that nobody, not even the FBI, could find her. Now imagine that, ten weeks later, she finally reemerges – waving a gun and robbing a bank alongside the people who kidnapped her.
It sounds too far-fetched to be true, but a version of this story really did happen. Back in 1974, left-wing terrorists abducted nineteen-year-old heiress Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of media tycoon William Randolph Hearst. And two months later, Patty publicly joined their cause.
But was Patty a participant or a victim? Was she a teenage girl who did what she had to do to survive, or a rich young woman who loved the thrill of being on the other side?
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| 0:00.0 | Wondery Plus subscribers can |
| 0:01.8 | convince the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery App or on Apple Podcasts. |
| 0:07.6 | A quick heads up, this episode contains swearing, |
| 0:10.7 | but you probably already knew that. |
| 0:13.0 | It's February 4th, |
| 0:19.0 | It's February 4th, 1974 in Berkeley, California. |
| 0:23.9 | It's about 9 PM, and 19-year-old Patty |
| 0:26.8 | is curled up on the couch next to her boyfriend, Steve. |
| 0:29.9 | He's scanning the channels for Mission Impossible. |
| 0:32.6 | This is back when it was still a TV series. |
| 0:35.0 | And she's absentmindedly finger brushing her Farah Fawcett bangs. |
| 0:39.5 | Tell me it's the 70s without telling me it's the 70s. |
| 0:42.7 | Seriously, I can smell the patulae oil from here. |
| 0:45.6 | Anyway, Patty's already gotten ready for bed, |
| 0:47.8 | so she's in a terry cloth robe with some alpaca slippers. |
| 0:51.3 | While other Berkeley students are joining marches and getting political, |
| 0:54.8 | Patty's more like 19 going on 40. She just wants to play house with her boyfriend. |
| 1:00.0 | Steve finally finds Mission Impossible and they both settle deeper into the couch. |
| 1:05.0 | It's looking like another blissfully ordinary night as fake 40 year olds, |
| 1:10.0 | until the doorbell rings. |
| 1:12.0 | They're not expecting anyone but Steve until the doorbell rings. |
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