The Whole Truth
Wonder Cabinet
Wonder Cabinet Productions
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2017
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Three journalists join us to talk about an assignment in which they tried to tell the story of someone who was, in some crucial way, unknowable. Getting to Know Your Father As a Woman; Getting Inside the Mind of Patty Hearst; Rodney Ascher Recommends "Patty Hearst"; Did Joe Gould Really Write "The Oral History of Our Time"?.
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| 0:15.4 | Hi, I'm Anne Strange Champs. It's to the best of our knowledge. |
| 0:18.5 | And in 1974, Patty Hurst, the heir to the Hurst family |
| 0:23.3 | fortune, was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army. Then, a few months later, |
| 0:29.4 | they released a recording of Patty saying she had joined their cause. And who could forget |
| 0:35.2 | the famous photo of Patty Hurst wielding a machine gun while robbing a bank. |
| 0:41.2 | Her face weirdly expressionless. |
| 0:44.5 | It is almost a perfect metaphor for the mystery of her captivity as a whole |
| 0:50.0 | because you just can't know for sure what she's thinking or feeling in that photograph. |
| 0:56.7 | Was Patty Hurst, as she later claimed, brainwashed? Journalist Jeffrey Toobin tries to uncover the |
| 1:02.9 | truth because that is what journalists do. But is it ever possible to really know the whole |
| 1:10.1 | truth about anyone? |
| 1:12.1 | We all have secrets. |
| 1:13.9 | Today we're going to talk with three journalists, each of whom took on an assignment to tell the truth, the whole truth, about someone who was in some crucial way unknowable. |
| 1:24.3 | I was sitting around actually boxing up my files on a book I had just written about |
| 1:29.7 | masculinity when I received this email from my father that said, basically, dear Susan, |
| 1:36.3 | I've interesting news for you, I've decided that I'm not the aggressive macho man that I've been |
| 1:43.1 | impersonating all these years. |
| 1:45.3 | The rest of the explanation was in the pictures. |
| 1:48.1 | My father sent me this series of snapshots in one of them. |
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