Heiress Patty Hearst interview, Ireland 1993
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- Опубліковано 17 сер 2023
- Patty Hearst recounts her kidnap by the Symbionese Liberation Army.
On 4 February 1974, Patty Hearst, the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped.
A 19 year old heiress was kidnapped by a psychotic band of terrorists.
Patty Hearst was held captive in a closet for 60 days. During her captivity she was transformed into an urban terrorist who helped hold up a bank and shoot at security guards.
Nineteen months after her kidnapping, she was captured by the FBI and sentenced to 35 years in prison, later reduced to seven years. She claimed she had been brainwashed and manipulated. President Jimmy Carter finally commuted her sentence and she walked free after serving three years in prison.
Joined by her husband Bernard Shaw, Patty Hearst on a first visit to Ireland tells her story on ‘Kenny Live’. A student at the University of California in 1974 she describes herself as a pretty average 19 year old. Patty Hearst says she was not involved in politics and had not witnessed a lot of political activity on campus.
The militant organisation known as the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) were active in the area. The group were responsible for the murder of Marcus Foster who was the first black superintendent of public schools in Oakland. Amongst other conspiracy theories, the group had claimed that Maurice Foster was a CIA agent. There was an ongoing effort to find this group.
Nobody could figure out why they had killed him.
Just before Patty Hearst was kidnapped, two of the members of Symbionese Liberation Army were captured. It is believed that their capture triggered the kidnapping of Patty Hearst. The FBI had raided a safehouse for the group and found a hit list. Patty Hearst was one of the names on the list. However, the FBI did not inform anyone on that list. Other people on the list included several industrial leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area. Patty Hearst explains that it was not just a list that the FBI discovered but rather detailed plans of her kidnapping. It was only following the kidnap that the FBI contacted her parents to apologise.
Armed members of the Symbionese Liberation Army broke into Patty Hearst’s apartment. They blindfolded and gagged her. When leaving her apartment, the kidnappers shot at neighbours but nobody was hit.
All I could hear at that point was breaking glass and screams.
It was only when Patty Hearst arrived at the safehouse that it occurred to her who the kidnappers were. At first, she hoped the group were looking for a ransom payment and she would then be released. She soon realised that this was not what they wanted. Firstly, the group demanded the release of their two members who had been arrested. Then they demanded the establishment of a food distribution programme. Patty Hearst says there was never really an end to their demands as they made more and more requests, all the while brainwashing her. They spent time convincing her to join the group and educating her about their objectives and beliefs.
They spent the next two months working on me.
Patty Hearst felt that there was no other choice but to cooperate with the kidnappers. She says she was badly treated, physically attacked, and raped.
This episode of Kenny Live was broadcast on 3 April 1993. The presenter is Pat Kenny. - Розваги
They were married from 1979 until Bernard Shaw’s death in 2013 at 68 years.
"were you a spoiled brat?" lol Pat
She drove all the way from Limerick to make her points, and she's going to make them.
Pat you've heard of research
This is very interesting, Patty Hearst just a normal person sounded bu vast wealth, not her fault, now an Irish citizen, I wish you luck Patty
What I laughed at was that Hibernian bank and you counted it to 42 cents.
Why is the husband even there
“What sort of nutcases were on the campus?” Pat Kenny really can’t hide his contempt for the left.
As everybody should. The “left” back then wasn’t as bad as the left today. The left today are quite literally nut-cases.
I'll never understand why Pat Kenny was considered as a good choice in this role 😂
Then there is no point in anyone explaining to you how he was the very best
@@jamesbradshaw3389 That's your opinion, and I respect that. Shame you had to be rather abrasive in your comment. But I get it, you're one of *those* 😂😂
wasn't a bad host, but i remember him when i was growing up and he was doing the toy show, he looked like he'd prefer to be some place else 😂
"His hair.... was perfect..
Does he know?
I think I was a pretty average 19 year old BILLIONAIRE
Honestly you appeared to be bored to death with that dorky boyfriend you had.
Steven Weed what a keeper!🤣🤣🤣
Why were they looking for food distribution if they were psychopaths?
For propaganda purposes, of course.
@@alexhauser5043there's always nuance. The SLA was a violent and evil terrorist group, but even immoral people can have a cause, even a cause that isn't necessarily wrong. They weren't just motivated by evil.
Their cause was equality and the wellness of the poor, which is why they wanted to feed the poor. They were also rapists and murderers, so I'm not saying they were good guys.
They were leftists. Same difference.
@@lilylittlemonster5 generally speaking leftists just want equality and compassion. If you think that's evil you're evil
To the bourgeoisie, feeding the poor is psychotic behaviour
Do you deny going to the Whitehouse and asking Donald if his second wife was in there also? Did you not tell him he had to have a plan. That's when he came up with covid.
Ya most kids go on bank robbing sprees with machine guns.