The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown.
Lee Bailey the largest police shootout in American history the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television stations across the country Patty's year on the lam, running from authorities and her circus-like trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term Stockholm syndrome entered the lexicon. The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing, the Hearst family trying to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free the bank security cameras capturing Tania wielding a machine gun during a robbery a cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre Tania. On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. Join host Dan Purdom, in for Becky Anderson, as he talks to author Jeffrey Toobin about his new book, "American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst."
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