PATTY HEARST Ep. 3 | “The Hibernia Robbery”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2024

⏱️ 30 minutes

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After more than two months in captivity, Patty Hearst emerges from the shadows and helps the SLA rob a bank in northern California. The public is shocked to see images of the former college student who now looks like an armed revolutionary. A radio station receives a recording in which Patty proclaims her transformation is complete: she is an avowed soldier in the SLA. 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	On March 6th, 1974, California Governor Ronald Reagan was the guest speaker at a lunch in Washington, D.C. A person in attendance asked him about PIN.
0:25.4	PIN was an acronym for People in Need, a food giveaway program in Northern California
0:31.7	that had launched a few weeks earlier.
0:34.4	It was the result of the first major demand by the Sembianes Liberation Army, the people who
0:39.7	kidnapped Patty Hurst.
0:42.2	It's just too bad, Reagan said said that we can't have an epidemic of botulism.
0:47.6	The governor's remark shocked a congressional aid who leaked it to a reporter.
0:56.2	Reagan apologized for the quip, but privately and publicly many of his constituents cheered what they perceived as being tough on a class of people
1:01.8	who took handouts.
1:03.8	They also cheered Reagan being tough on crime, and one of the most visible examples was
1:09.1	the governor's plans to prosecute Joe Romero and Russ Little to the fullest extent of the law.
1:15.0	Two months earlier, Romero and Little were arrested after a traffic stop spooked them into a shootout with a cop.
1:22.0	Then, evidence found in their van linked them to the
1:25.5	SLA and it linked the SLA to the murder of Oakland School Superintendent Marcus Foster.
1:32.6	The SLA thought the murder would start a counterculture revolution, and millions would
1:37.3	join their ranks or at least cheer them on.
1:40.6	But it backfired, making the SLA a pariah among leftist groups and the general population alike.
1:47.0	The group had to go into hiding and change its tactics.
1:51.0	So the SLA, led by Donald Defrees, kidnapped Patty Hurst and demanded
1:57.1	her family implement a free food program. The program was a means of earning goodwill and support in the court of public opinion.
2:05.8	At best, it earned them some platitudes from fringe newspapers.
2:10.5	And as the program wound down in late March, there was no sign that Hurst would be released.
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