one of the victims of spain efforts with this young woman, evangeline cisneros who was thrown into jail for being sympathetic to the rebels. and hearst played her up who as a blameless cuban who was mistreated by spain and started an international campaign to have her sprung from jail. when that didn't succeed he said some reporters over to the chilly spring her from joe. they rented a room across the street from the prison. in the dark of night they scrambled across by makeshift board or ladder and pried open the bars. he brought her back to new york. it became an international incident. not a usual thing to do, to go into a foreign country and spring somebody from prison and bring them back to your country. >> how about his willingness to bore up the suez canal? >> well, he didn't actually do it. he considered it. there was a point at which spain was sending its navy to cuba. hearst felt that american ships there were threatened by this. so he devised a plan to sink it in the suez canal to slowdown the spanish fleet. eventually he thought better of it and backed out. >> did you say ea