. >> the granddaughter of william randolph hearst was abducted by two men and a girl in a bizarre kidnapping. >> no ransom note, no phone calls, no word, nothing. >> the sla is the people's army, and we fight in their interests. >> the fbi said the girl in the wig with the automatic rifle was patricia hearst. >> rich college girl, turned armed terrorist in a matter of weeks. southern california's largest manhunt continues. >> for someone my age, i've been through an awful lot. >> we don't know where she is. >> mom, dad, i'm okay. >> i think what you saw in the sla was something that started from idealistic roots and became poisoned. they had a hope that the country was tinder and they would be the spark, that the revolution is waiting for you. you just have to be the right person at the right time. >> by this time my eyes were full of blood. and i really couldn't see. i just had a sense of the car speeding off. we were almost on a corner. i staggered back around the front, probably 30 seconds, 60 seconds, came back and said, where's patti? where's patty? they said, they took her. it didn't r

mid-1940's, william randolph hearst health started to decline and she decided to him --r home and move to move with him to his beverly hills home. hotel -- dimension to a man who plans to turn it into a hotel. he took the guesthouse and the rest of the property and shared a beach club called the sand and sea club. they ended up building bungalows on the property in between the guesthouse in the main mansion. functioned that way for about 10 years and he was losing money on the hotel. upkeep.ery expensive keep in mind, the 60's were coming. it was going to be a new, modern era and he decided people do not want this antique hotel, so he made a deal with the state that he would be able to sell the property to the state if he demolished the building, so that is what he did. he tore down the hotel and it became owned by the state. meanwhile, the sand and sea club on the property with the bunkley's -- the bungalows. way until the 1994 earthquake and with the earthquakes, the bungalows collapsed and were red tagged. santa monica passed a referendum that no new hotels or restaurants could be b

>> the granddaughter of william randolph hearst was abducted by two men and a girl in a bizarre kidnapping. >> no ransom note, no phone calls no word, nothing. >> the sla is the people's army, and we fight in their interests. >> the fbi said the girl in the wig with the automatic rifle was patricia hearst. >> rich college girl turned armed terrorist in a matter of weeks. >> southern california's largest manhunt continues. >> for someone my age, i've been through an awful lot. >> we don't know where she is. >> mom, dad, i'm okay. >> looking at it 45 years later, however long it's been, it wasn't a simple story. when somebody you love, is close to you, is kidnapped, it's a particular kind of torture. it's very hard to understand unless it's actually happened to you. she did change, and it wasn't too many months before i realized that we weren't getting back together. everything was crushed. it was gone, it was done. but i'm just trying to -- you know, if this is a documentary and you want the history, you want to know what it was like before the kidnapping, that's my answer. 1972, i went to

isepisode that comes to mind on the eve of the spanish-american war, william randolph hearst, the powerful media magnet of his

going back to 1898 an episode , that comes to mind is on the eve of the spanish-american war, william randolph hearst, the powerful media magnate of his day sent a photographer down to , document the war. reporter cables to hearst, there is no war going on, hearst says you furnish the pictures, i will furnish the war. there were fake fabricated accounts distributed by british propaganda to the united states, alleging germans were tossing babies on the bayonets and other various atrocity stories. they would highlight the wickedness of the germans. similar types of efforts came through in the second one war. and of course during the cold , war there were concerns about usedcated stories, they lies or untruths as methods of control, or as methods of expanding their influence. today that term is being bandied , about by the president and his supporters as a way of discrediting information they find objectionable to their reputation, or might weaken their position. and of so by attacking the news source, it is like putting up a firewall against negative information. that phenomenon, too, isn't new.

. >> the graund daughter of william randolph hearst was abducted by two men and a girl in a bizarre kidnapping. >> no ransom note, no phone calls, no word, nothing. >> the sla is the people's army and we fight in their interests. >> the fbi said the girl in the wig with the automatic rifle was patricia hearst. >> which college girl turned armed terrorist in a matter of weeks -- >> southern california's largest manhunt continues. >> for someone my age i've been through an awful lot. >> we don't know where she is. >> mom, dad, i'm okay. >> regardless of whether patricia hearst meant what she said or was forced to say it, there does seem to be a profound change in her. >> watching talking heads report on this, they were stunned. >> was she forced to say it, or has she begun to be converted by the revolutionary education her kidnappers have been giving her all these weeks? >> propaganda effect was almost hilarious. you know what i mean. it was amazing. no one expected that. >> we've had her 20 years, they've had her 60 days. and i don't believe that she's going to change her philosophy that quickl

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. >> the granddaughter of william randolph hearst was abducted by two men and a girl in a bizarre kidnapping. >> no ransom note, no phone calls no word, nothing. >> the sla is the people's army, and we fight in their interests. >> the fbi said the girl in the wig with the automatic rifle was patricia hearst. >> rich college girl turned armed terrorist in a matter of weeks. southern california's largest manhunt continues. >> for someone my age, i've been through an awful lot. >> we don't know where she is. >> mom, dad? i'm okay. >> whatever private thoughts the jurors may have had as they went to court on this last day of the trial, they were required to keep to themselves until they reach a verdict. >> the jury deliberated about a day's worth. and when the phone rang and it was jean deloach, the judge's law clerk, we knew we had a verdict, and we were shocked. so we went upstairs and still thought there was a coin toss. >> when the jurors began to deliberate, i told patricia campbell hearst that it was my opinion, based on all that had transpired in the previous eight weeks, that she would b

. >> the granddaughter of william randolph hearst was abducted by two men and a girl in a bizarre kidnapping. >> no ransom note, no phone calls, no word, nothing. >> the sla is the people's army, and we fight in their interests. >> the fbi said the girl in the wig with the automatic rifle was patricia hearst. >> rich college girl turned armed terrorist in a matter of weeks. >> southern california's largest manhunt continues. >> for someone my age, i've been through an awful lot. >> we don't know where she is. >> mom, dad? i'm okay. >>> coming off now, the chopper is overhead observing, the fire is raging. we've got a better vantage point. starting off you can hear the officer yelling at us, he just yelled that we are in the line of fire. police now are broadcasting to the people in the house to cease fire. i can hear their megaphone. >> as soon as we turn on the tv, we see cops scurrying around and we hear gunfire. >> the area is still definitely sealed. that automatic weapons fire is from what we can gather here coming from a police officer's weapon. there are more police now. this place is

going back to 1898, an episode that comes to mind is on the eve of the spanish-american war, william randolphearst, the powerful media magnet of his day, sent a photographer down to cuba to document the war and