and patty hearst herself at mel's sporting goods.ly be grateful the sla were horrible, horrible shots. >> host: richard, are you stille there? >> guest: i'm sorry. >> you noted in the book how radical the area was but but failed to mention another famous female resident. >> guest: what would that. >> caller: hillary rodham clinton lived on benson after knew in the summer of 1971. she came across the country from yale to work for a radical law firm, which represented many of the revolutionaries of the time, like the black panthers. >> guest: i -- it's news to me. >> caller: i hope you'll -- well, it's a true story. you can look it up on the internet and so on. hope you'll urge people to not only read your book by bryan burrow's book "days of rage," an ex-end look on the ear are. i just second that motion enthusiastic. the book "days overarm" is about -- days of rage "is about many of the radical movements of the 1970s. mostly focuses on the weather underground gut also talks about the puerto rican faln, there's in stuff about the symb

and patty hearst herself at mel's sporting goods.n only be grateful the sla war horrible shots. >> host: richmond, are you still there? >> guest: i'm sire. >> caller: you noted how radical the area was at the time but you failed to mention another famous female resident of ben view avenue. hillary rodham clinton. lived on ben view avenue in the summer of 1971. she came across the country from yale to work for a radical law firm, which represented many of the revolutionaries at the time, like the pa black panthers. >> guest: news to me. >> caller: well, it's true story. it's -- you can look it up on the internet. hope you'll urge people not only to read your book but bryan burrough's book, days overarm, which is in your bibliography. an excellent book on the era. >> guest: can i just second that motion enthusiastically. the book, "days of rage" is about all -- many of the radical movements of the 1970s. mostly focuses on the weather underground but also talks about the puerto rican faln. there's stuff below the symbionese liberation a

unfortunately, bernie died of cancer in 2013 and patty hearst is now a widow. perhaps not surprisingly, became head of security and many of my friend who work at hearst magazines like "esquire" or cosmopolitan dialysate he took my employee photo i.d. there is a whole generation of journalists that have pleasant memories of bernie shaw taken employee i.d. photographs. >> host: we are at the midway point of our three hour conversation. a lot more to talk about. what's your next project? >> guest: i don't know. when i write a book, i find the effort so all-encompassing that frankly the last thing i want to think about right now is what my next book will be about. i do know happily that i will write more books, but they tend to emerge organically from my work from "the new yorker" and i don't know exactly -- i don't know at all what it will be about. >> host: more with jeffrey toobin on c-span2 with "in depth." more calls, e-mails, tweets here on booktv. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> author, columnist, lawyer, jeffrey toobin. the book "a vast conspirace." he said the f

she could have said, i'm patty hearst, can you take me home. she was with people during the year after most of the other s.l.a. people were killed with people who had no guns, including jack scott, the former sports activist, who had nothing to do with guns. his parents had her for a while, tried to talk her into leaving, going back to her parents, she wouldn't do it. if you just look at the facts of the case as opposed to the psychobabble that's imposed on the case, i think you conclude that she was a member of the s.l.a. >> rose: so she came to like them, to care about them? >> she fell in love with two of them. the first was willie wolf, one of the six who were of the original kidnappers who was the member of the s.l.a. who was closest in background to her. he was only a year or so older than she was. he was the son of a physician from new milford, connecticut, grew up in an upper-middle class household, went to a prep school, went to berkeley, smart kid, studying archeology. they bonded in the house in daily city, california, where she was

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i have not a very significant question about the patty hearst book. in the present, and he mentioned that she is a homemaker. she lives in greenwich and living a life she was born to. did she hire her bodyguard or her chauffeur. and if so, is she still married? >> guest: this is not a trivial question at all. it is something i explored in the book. she did marry her bodyguard right after she was released from prison on bail. her lawyers had to hire bodyguards for her and they hired an off-duty san francisco police officer named or an art shop. the two of them fell in love and they married in the late 70s. they moved to the east coast is used at just weird not to greenwich and i think it fair not to disclose where she lives. she is understandably concerned about her security. they had a long and happy marriage and they had two daughters. unfortunately, bernie died of cancer in 2013 and patty hearst is now a widow. perhaps not surprisingly, became head of security and many of my friend who work at hearst magazines like "esquire" or cosmopolitan dialysat

and the patty hearst case, who was accessible and not accessible? mr.oobin: patty hearst was not accessible and she didn't want to talk about it which i completely understand. unfortunately, bernie shaw, her former bodyguard who she married diedin 2013. she is a widow, a grandmother, very involved in raising show dog. charlie: champion show dogs. mr. toobin: rocket, her winning dog.d s she sort of moved on. one of the many remarkable things about this story is she has led the life that she was destined for anyway. and that does not include talking about her life as tonya. at the other part of it, which is a little more -- it has a little more edge from my perspective. she has given many interviews over the years and speaks to people who know not a lot about the facts of the case. there are parts she doesn't want to talk about. charlie: like what part? mr. toobin: mel's sporting-goods. of is kidnapped in february 74, they rob the bank in april of 74. may 16, 1974, they flee to los angeles. there are nine of them. and patricia. six of them stand the house

including the most recent, the kidnapping crimes and the trial of patty hearst. i want to begin where you ended the book. end of the book. you wrote this without her cooperation. >> i didthat? >> guest: there were several things that were different. this was the first book that was at the border of journalism and history. all the other books that i wrote i had sort of covered the underlining story in real time and then wrote about it. this is something i was alive in the 1970s but i was a kid. i didn't follow the stuff so it was starting from scratch in terms of my research. in particular there's 150 about the army and its trials that bill harris one of the survivors had and i managed to obtain access to that so i knew i had a great deal of material no one had seen before but obviously to answer your question, i would have liked to have talked to patty. she made clear through intermediaries and then indirectly she wanted no part of this. but i realized i had so much material from her and about her and her own book and testimony and fbi interviews that she had giv

the patty hearst abduction 1974 grabbed the headlines. what seemed like a simple abduction turned into something much more implicated. the story, even now, fascinates the world. >> there has been a big kidnapping on the west coast. >> on february 4th, 1974, three people burst into 19-year-old patty hearst's home. she was beaten, bound, and thrown into the trunk of a car. the scene left neighbors terrified. >> i heard her pleading, please, >> reporter: her captors demanded hearst's wealthy family to donate food to the needy in exchange for her release. >> ransom made for $2 million to be delivered to a tax-exempt charitable organization. >> reporter: the hearst family implied and patty's release looked likely until things turned. patty pledged allegiance to her cause. >> i see no reason to further defend my position. >> reporter: she took the guerrilla named ton that and caught on camera robbing a san francisco bank at gun ps point. the daughter of william randolph hearst woo now on an fbi wanted poster. >> i'm a soldier in the people's ar

she is now part of its revivrevi jeffrey toobin and talk about the kidnapping of patty hearst. the kidnapping rocked the nation more than 40 years ago. he has a look at why hearst stayed with her kidnappers. >> the 12th state dinner of the obama presidency last night. first lady michelle obama looked brandon maxwell who is lady gaga's stylist. >> i'm surprised there is only 12 in eight years. i thought there was more than that. >> i think who can design for lady gaga and first laid michelle obama, you can appreciate his atlanta, georgia last week, veterans actor bob mcgarage said he and two other stars had been fired from sesame street. all cast members were told two years ago they would be needed less with a new half-hour format but the door was left open for all actors to continue to appear based on future story lines. >>> the "the washington post" says that some millennials born in the '90s are avoiding sex. don't choke, charlie. they are more than twice as likely to be sexual inactive in their early 20s than the previous generation. overall, they have fewer sexual some say t

big kidnapping on the west coast. >> on february 4th, 1974 three people burst into 19-year-old patty hearst'sthe scene left neighbors terrified. >> i heard her pleading please no not me. >> reporter: her captors demanded hearst's wealthy family to donate food to the needy in exchange for her release. >> ransom made for $2 million to be delivered to a tax-exempt charitable organization. >> reporter: the hearst family implied and patty's release looked likely until things turned. patty pledged allegiance to her kidnappers and joined their cause. >> i see no reason to further defend my position. >> reporter: she took the guerrilla named ton that andkidnapping authorities finally caught up with the sla. the gun fight which played out live on television before millions of viewers left six members of the group dead. but patty remained on the run. until september 1975 when authorities finally caught up with her in san francisco. >> i said don't move. and then placed her under arrest. >> reporter: a sensational trial followed. patty's lawyers argued she was brainwashed and jurors listened to hundreds

. >> caller: i will get patty hearst book. was living in the bay area at the time and going to college so the memories are vivid. 20 years later i found myself living in brentwood across from nicole when the killings occurred so i watch the trial avidly. within a couple of week is read a piece of yours in the "the new yorker" saying the defense was going to target a cop named mark furman. and sure enough, that's how the case unfolded, and when they came up with those tapes, i thought, my word, that just kind of blows him out of the water completely. when the case was over, i thought, if there's any one person you could attribute the loss would be mark fuhrman. how he has been rehabilitated, fellow who you might at best describe as a racist perjury cop is now an author, shows up on television. i just don't understand how people can think that trial was wrongly decided are embracing this clown who did more to sabotage it than anybody. >> guest: well, i think you make an interesting point, and i think it is worth remembering wher

that is the -- may 17, 1974, patty hearst and two of the sla members went off shopping, and the -- got shootout and had to leave. the other six members of the sla were caught in this house that is on the screen now, and this house was the subject of what is still to this day the biggest police shootout in american history. 5,000 rounds of ammunition. there you see video of it. 5,000 rounds of ammunition went into that house. 3,000 rounds of ammunition came out, and all six of the sla members who were inside were killed. the l.a.p.d. thought thatt patricia hearst was inside theia house at the time of the shootout, and so she understood that her life was in danger in a very direct way, which was one reason why over the next year, she went on the run with the remnants of the sla because she saw that this is the fate that might await her if she was caught. >> host: we take it for granted today, we saw the graphic on the bottom, minicam live. a whole new technology. >> guest: another example of how the hearst case previews the modern world. modern knxt was the cbs affiliate in los angeles.

has the latest edition of our newshoursh bookshelf. >> brown: on february four, 1974 19-year-old patty hearstdaughter of publishing titan william randolph hearst, was kidnapped from her home berkeley, california by members of a radical group that called itself the symbionese liberatioh army. it was an event that riveted the nation, even more so when not long after her abduction it began to look as though hearst might have joined the group. in april, she took part in a bank robbery. hearst was captured in september, 1975. six members of the s.l.a. were killed in a gun battle with police in los angeles. she served almost two years in prison before her sentence was commuted by president carter. she later received a full pardon from president clinton. the incredible story is told anew in "american heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst." and author jeffrey toobin, staff writer at "the new yorker" and legal analyst for cnn, joins men now. welcome. >> good to be here. >> brown: i want to begin where you do.u it's the strangeness of this period, the early 1970s, t

. >> the patty hearst saga, patty hearst was -- not that kid. that's michael barbieri. he's a 14-year-old in a new movie -- >> yep. and also patty hearst. >> this movie's supposed to be very well done. also do we have that patty hearst stuff ready? patty hearst was a 19-year-old very wealthy woman in the early 1970s when she was taken liberation army. she was kidnapped, and she fought, tried to escape. then slowly she turned, she became a soldier in the liberation army and actually held up banks. it's a wild, wild, wild story. jeffrey toobin, who told us all about o.j. simpson, they made his book into that miniseries, >> we'll meet him and hear all about it. be right back. flows into one incredible experienceld you can't find anywhere else. and that's not the only thing you can only find in new york state. ?? ?? you can find it all only in new york. new york. it's all here. it's only here. you're washing that baked-on alfredo by hand,right? yes, dear. dish issues? cascade platinum... powers... through... your toughest stuck-on food. so let your dishwasher be the dishwas

discuss his latest book "american heiress, the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst he's also the author of "the oath, the bob white house and the supreme court." "the nine, inside the secret world of the supreme court." "too close to call, the 36-day battle to decide the 2000 election" "a vast conspiracy, the real story of the sex scandal that nearly brought down a president," "the run of his life, the people v. o.j. simpson" and "opening arguments, a young lawyer's first case, united states v. oliver north." join in the conversation on c-span 2. then at 7:00 eastern, dinesh d' souza looks at the impact a hillary clinton presidency would have on america in his book "hillary's america, the secret history of the democratic party." go to book tv.org for the complete schedule. >>> c-span is touring cities across the country exploring american history. next, a look at our visit to the blaine house in augusta, maine. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >>> i want to welcome you to the blaine house. since 1919 the home of maine's gove

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we are publishing jeffrey toobin spoke about patty hearst, her kidnapping, what she did while she wasn the sla and are very dramatic. as people no jeffrey toobin is in your staff writer and chief legal correspondent and author of several best sellers, a nine, the oath and also the book on the o.j. simpson page which was recently made into a television series. what is so fantastic about this book from my perspective is everyone, we are living through this terrible time in early 1970s it felt like the contras had a nervous breakdown. was an average of 1500 terrorist bombings every year during this period. nixon was being impeached. that was political. it was economic malaise. in the midst of this was this sensational crime happening, patty hearst was kidnapped and too much later declared she was now to be known as -- enlisted in the sudanese liberation army. the story has amazing twists and turns. the largest pleased she still in american history took place in los angeles several muslim where everyone except for patricia hearst and two comrades were killed in something that also happene

discussing his latest book, "american heiress: the wild saga of kid napping, crimes and fall of patty hearst." mr. toobin is also the author of several other books including "the run of his life," and "opening arguments, a young lawyer's first case." join in the conversation with your phone calls and betweens beginning at noon eastern on c-span2. then at seven eastern, dinesh d'souza looks at the impact a hillary clinton presidency would have on america in his book, "hillary's america: the secret history of the democratic party." go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> so science, as i said a moment ago, is really the great equalizer. it is the one thing that stands between, say, two brothers with as much power as these two brothers have, charles and david koch, and two brothers that have as much as these two have, my nephews in chicago. now, in theory, these two sets of brothers in the united states should have the same access to justice, the same access to, potentially, to education or to employment. at least to voting. and science is the one equalizer that neutralizes the v

it's the story of a new book "the wild saga of patty hearst.w york times" best seller. congratulations on the book. it's such a fascinating read. >> thank you. >> america at that time was such a different america. we think of this as a partisan time but how many bombings were there in the early 70s? >> this is what really shocked me. i thought the 60s were tumultuous. the 70s were so much worse. a thousand bombing a year. >> and it wasn't just one year. >> '73, '74, '75. that was a form of political expression. and you had watergate and the energy crisis and in northern california, you had the zodiac killer, the zebra killers. >> patricia gets kidnapped by the symbionese army. who were they? >> they thought they were going to model themselves against the other groups in the world and they thought they would spark a revolution in the united states by certain dramatic guerrilla activities. it was a completely absurd hypothesis. >> there's always been this question of ultimately within a relatively short period of time, several months, she seemed

toobin and his new book, "american heiress: the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of patty hearst legally related, but they are not necessarily the same thing. i have to say, this is the first book i've written that is at the border between journalism and history. >> rose: yeah. and fortunately, most of the people were still alive 40 years later, but it was enough in the past that it really felt like another time that i was writing about, not current events, and that was fun. >> rose: we continue with adam driver, the ac door from "girls" and "star wars." his project is arts in the armed forces where he brings theater to the military. >> having left for the military, when i got out and went to school was really the first time

. >> sort of the remarkable thing if you follow patty hearst's life. since 1975, when she was arrested, she has actually led the life for which she was destined. she became a socialite and some eccentric interest and been in a couple of john waters movies. basically, she did turn into her mother notwithstanding her criticism of her mother. >> the sla was a rag tag team. they had no plan and did this willy-nilly and got patty hearst after looking at her engagement photo. >> the name sla is triple misleading. symbionese is a made-up word. they didn't liberate anything or anyone. they called themselves an army. there were, at most, a dozen ? >>> welcome to "cbs this morning: saturday." i'm anthony mason. >> i'm vinita nair. >>> coming up the olympics get off to a rousing start in brazi at the doping scandal that kicked more than a hundred athletes out. >>> then comedian david cross is back with a stand-up special after six years. we will talk with him about what changed since he started doing stand-up 35 years ago. >>> singer aaron neville celebrated his

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earlier he covered the trials of publishing heiress patty hearst for the san francisco chronicle andved as a foreign correspondent in buenos aires, argentina and london. please join me and welcoming our palace and moderator for president and poverty, the fight that never ends. [applause] >> thank you so much and good morning, everybody. it is great to be here. thanks for turning out. povertypresidents and it really gives the fight that seems never to end. to pick the starting point. i thought we would begin, mark sent you are the director of the obg library to let's begin with lbj. certainly in my lifetime, i most associate with the war on poverty, simply because he launched the war on poverty. mark, tell the stage us a little bit about the war on poverty and about president johnson, and how this came to be so important to him and what he was trying to do. up presidential biographer, although i have not wanted pulitzer prize. -- 18 pulitzer prize. but presidents andt their backgrounds, you try to find out a crucible, a turning point in their lives. you do that as a storyteller. it is

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patty hearst was kidnapped and two months later declared she was now to be known as tonya and enlisted in the sla. the story has amazing twists and turns. for one thing, the largest police shootout took place in l.a. where everyone except for patricia hearst and two comrades were killed. and something that also happened for the first time on live national television, because the mini cam had just been invented. and then we get to the trial which has incredible twists and turns. it's a symbolic story of sort of a nation falling apart but also the cost of political radicalism. he's a fabulous writer. then in september candace my lard has written two best sellers, one about assassination of one of the most gift canned men ever elected -- gifted men ever elected to the presidency, james a. garfield, and live of doubt, how theodore roosevelt discovered a river in the amazon and almost died. she's incredibly good at taut narratives about famous individuals and periods in their life. in this case she's telling a story that i sort of knew had happened but didn't realize how dramatic it was, wh