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American Hostage

Criminal Content

Fiction, History, True Crime

4.7 • 835 Ratings

🗓️ 22 February 2022

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

Based on a true story, American Hostage stars Jon Hamm as Fred Heckman, a beloved local radio reporter who is thrust into the middle of a life-or-death crisis when hostage-taker, Tony Kiritsis, demands to be interviewed on his popular radio news program. Mr. Kiritsis has tied a shotgun to his banker’s neck in grim fashion, but through Heckman's radio show he gradually becomes a polarizing national media sensation during a nail biting 63-hour standoff.

American Hostage is an 8-episode scripted psychological thriller from Criminal Content, starring Emmy Award-winner Jon Hamm and directed by Academy Award® winner Shawn Christensen.

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0:00.0	This podcast is based on a true story.
0:03.3	He says he had been planning this for four years, according to my information here.
0:07.7	Did he come in with a shotgun?
0:08.9	How does you know?
0:09.4	Evidently, he made a bad real estate deal, and he's going to settle it.
0:12.5	He has a shotgun wired to the neck of his victim.
0:16.1	Looks like we're going to be here quite a long time.
0:18.4	Good afternoon.
0:19.0	I'm Fred Heckman with WIBC.
0:22.6	Tuesday, February 8th, 1977. You're a workaholic, Fred. Yeah. That takes a toll on other things. Hey, it's been a slow year.
0:29.4	In Annapolis, 911, it's your emergency. I've done a thing. A real serious thing? The kind of thing
0:34.1	you aren't used to hearing about, I bet. For me, there are three tenets of journalism.
0:38.4	One, don't make it personal.
0:40.2	Two, don't pick a side.
0:42.1	And three, don't become the story.
0:46.3	I broke all three of those in the span of a single phone call.
0:50.4	Hello, this is Fred Heckman with WIBC.
0:53.0	This is really Fred Heckman? Yes.
0:55.0	We got something developed from downtown.
0:57.0	Something developed?
0:58.0	If you were gonna help me straight in this out from you, Mr. Heckman, you know I trust you.
1:01.0	You want an interview.
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