PATTY HEARST Ep. 2 | “The Ransom”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

Society & Culture, Documentary, True Crime, History

4.7 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

The kidnappers contact Patty Hearst’s family and make a strange and unprecedented demand. The SLA wants the wealthy Hearst family to set up a food distribution program throughout California. The Hearsts quickly organize a program, but it debuts with disastrous results. And the world hears the first communique from Patty Hearst since her abduction. Join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons: blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join Apple users join Black Barrel+ for ad-free episodes, bingeable seasons and bonus episodes. Click the Black Barrel+ banner on Apple to get started with a 3-day free trial. On YouTube, subscribe to INFAMOUS+ for ad-free episodes and bingeable seasons. Hit “JOIN” on the Infamous America YouTube homepage. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCm4V_wVD7N1gEB045t7-V0w/featured For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're going to go. On the
0:15.0	evening of February 4th, 1974,
0:20.0	a terrorist group calling themselves
0:22.0	the symbionese Liberation Army violently abducted 19-year-old Patricia Hurst, better known as Patty. Two men and one woman from the group forced its way into her Berkeley apartment, beat up her
0:35.0	fiance and fired shots at her neighbors.
0:38.8	In just a few minutes, the SLA had bound and gagged Patty and driven away with her in the trunk of a car.
0:45.8	Within an hour, she was locked in a closet at a safe house in Daly City, California,
0:51.4	about 10 miles south of San Francisco.
0:54.8	Hurst figured she was the perfect candidate for a huge ransom.
0:58.9	Once this apparent paramilitary group got what they wanted, she'd be set free. What she didn't know was that
1:05.2	her kidnapping was the culmination of months of planning by a man named Donald Defrees,
1:10.6	and money wasn't his immediate goal.
1:13.8	The unstable Defreeze had a mile long criminal record, and he was on the lam from Soledad
1:19.4	prison.
1:21.0	Before he escaped from Soledad in early 1973, he spent time at Vincapel Soledad in early 1973, he spent time at Vancaville prison,
1:26.0	where he got to know Berkeley student,
1:29.0	Willie Wolf, through a program that mixed activists and inmates. Before long, Defreeze, Wolf, and half a dozen other
1:37.4	activists formed a bizarre ally ship based on revolutionary doctrine.
1:43.6	Against the backdrop of the San Francisco Bay Area,
1:46.7	reeling with its anti-Vietnam war sentiment
1:49.7	and counterculture violence,
1:51.7	Defries and his accolades formed the SLA.
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