The Man with the Gun

Re-Solved Mysteries: An Unsolved Mysteries Podcast

Alison Cunningham

True Crime, Tv & Film, After Shows

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 March 2022

⏱️ 4 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 Resolve Mysteries listeners. I just started listening to this new true crime
0:04.1	podcast called American Hostage and honestly I'm so happy I can binge it all at once
0:08.8	because every episode leaves you hanging. Set in Indianapolis in 1977, American Hostage is a suspenseful true story starring
0:17.5	John Ham as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who is forced into the middle of a life or death crisis
0:23.6	when a hostage takertis demands to be interviewed live on his popular radio news
0:28.8	program. Through Heckman's radio show karitzis gradually becomes a media sensation and an unexpected
0:35.0	national hero during a nail-biting 63-hour police standoff.
0:39.0	We're about to play you a preview of American hostage.
0:42.0	While you're listening, follow American hostage wherever you get your
0:44.6	podcasts. Or you can binge the entire season right now on Amazon Music or Wondery Plus. The 7 second delay for live television was introduced in 1975 by NBC so that Richard Pryor
1:01.2	could host Saturday Night Live without the network getting fined for all of his obscenities.
1:06.0	The delay would also be useful we discovered if a man were to be shot point blank in the head, live on national television. And this is the news of the day, Tuesday, February 8, 1978. K and divide by the six goes.
1:33.0	The answer is day and seven long.
1:37.0	W Y D.C.
1:39.0	Indianapolis 911, what's your emergency?
1:42.0	Yes, this the police?
1:44.6	This is 911 dispatch, yes sir.
1:46.2	Is Lieutenant Collins there?
1:48.8	Uh, no sir, he's not on dispatch.
1:50.6	Well, who you got there?
1:51.4	Who you got there?
1:52.1	Who you got there? Are you? I'm tired enough to take this call.
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