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Episode 36 - Patty Hearst and the Symbionese Liberation Army

🕑 Added 2021-12-23 13:26:05 +0000 UTC

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Kawaii Leonard

One noteworthy thing about Vacaville: it’s also next to Travis Air Force Base. so the petit bourgeoisie of the area is all air force, mental hospital, and prison workers. I went to an insane mormon wedding in Vacaville once

Phil Hostak

Mind-bending episode (not just the podcast episode but the historical one). I was quite young at the time, but I have vivid memories of the whole Patty Hearst kidnapping drama, which was given wall-to-wall news coverage. Nebbishy loser Steven Weed was interviewed regularly. And I remember the gun battle/arson footage particularly acutely. (Coverage of the Waco seige/inferno brought it straight back.) The entire thing was utterly bizarre and seemed altogether 'off' even to my 10-year-old mind. It definitely cemented the idea, seeded by Altamont and the Manson killings, that everything about the 60s - cultural, political, and pharmacological - had descended into horrific putrescence. Which may well have been the point of the whole exercise.

PleasureToast

It's the History Conspiracy podcast (link: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/2916197). The episode I was referring to is here: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/133075762. The podcast is essentially various tv or audio broadcasts in audio form. Sometimes they upload entire old documentaries and I think even some congressional hearings.

youngthugfan67

What podcast are you mentioning? Sounds interesting

PleasureToast

Oh wow. I just realized that the day before this episode came out, the History Conspiracy pod released the 1974 Lake Headley and Donald Freed press conference. Cool coincidence.