Special preview: The Radical Story of Patty Hearst

Patty Hearst transformed from heiress to terrorist in a saga of privilege, celebrity, politics, media, revolution, and violence. The docuseries premieres Sunday February 11 9 PM ET on CNN.

[@nickyg372]

Her kidnapper talking about her is infuriating. Why would anyone listen to anything he says. Everything that came out of his mouth was infuriating.

[@aritapia652]

yeah.. what the fuck???

[@micheleemcdaniel389]

And why isn't he in jail?!!

[@moyranayan7618]

Another girl would be in jail today as well. American justice

[@jimmyjames7591]

@@micheleemcdaniel389He was most definitely jailed!

[@rawrbro69]

Drunk history brought me here

[@KittyComoMeow]

rawrbro69 Me, too!

[@anjithanaduvath9313]

Same.

[@MrMarvymiller]

Thx Drunk History 👍🏾

[@ambersmall8434]

Same 🤣

[@KittyMisses]

Me to

[@amyevans1118]

Still blaming the victim. She was the person who was kidnapped, and the people who kidnapped her were calling her a freak as if she liked her horrific abuse. Striping her of her name is one of the first rule of taking her identity from her and the beginning of Manipulating Patty Hearst. She had no choice but to go along with her captors inorder to live.

[@Raughwe]

I think it's easier than than that. She's just a really amiable kid. A kid. She wants to please these guys, and she made friends with them. She just wanted to belong. Pretty easy.

[@willieboy3011]

Do not waste your time. Having read books, including Patty's, and lived thru this time, I was greatly disappointed. Had to delete it. All because Harris was allowed to talk on and on despite his obvious delusional state. He continually related events where his own analysis did not match the reality of the action he himself described. They were not going to keep Patty long, but they did. They kidnapped Patty to somehow get two SLA members--who had been in a shootout with police--released. But they never made this demand of the police. Patty was given a script to read Harris relates, yet he claims these were her words. He even claims that Patty was a "freak" revolutionary that magically transformed on her own from the nonpolitical 19 year old student into a gun toting SLA armed robber. Harris admits they forced her to memorize 7 Kwanza points to memorize and other SLA propaganda so they could "know who we were." Then claims that Patty was not brainwashed. She was held under constant gunpoint by SLA members who had already killed a man, kept blindfolded in a closet, raped, and this was not brainwashing. The show could have been good. Weed, the recordings of Patty, news recordings, and Patty's account was good. But I had to stop. I kept thinking how much I wanted to damage Harris up close and personal. There is rotten flesh in his skull. These "revolutionaries" were nothing more than violent children pretending to be somebody while "barking mad" (Weed). SLA fired hundreds of rounds from automatic rifles, yet the "violent revolutionaries" were unable to kill one person, even a bystander in a crowded neighborhood. All 6 members including Defreeze were exterminated. On the run with murder charges and kidnap victim Patty Hearst, Harris decided to shoplift. How stupid. Harris's delusions are not based upon stupidity, however. Harris displays some mental disorder wherein he has replaced fact with fiction in his mind. His own analysis does not match his own description of action. CNN blew it allowing him so much time, without medication, or even having his physician nearby to attempt to interpret for him.

[@kilah2838]

how is the guy who kidnapped her just speaking in this video?

[@stephaniestanley8041]

Exactly 😊💯

[@user-wn7ek7eo9h]

Reagan,Hearst connections and the fear of her being brought to court again 24 years later. She was a get away driver and that mother of 4 was murdered for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The only punishment was to the dead woman's loved ones. She should have been automatically charged with murder. Money and power talks.

[@stevencoffin328]

He got parole.

[@DodgerFan1988]

“We kidnapped a freak.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@littlecasino60]

*I know, that line gets me every time.*

[@boydoll3934]

....and, a sociopath

[@3star2nr]

Lol the power of the 🍆

[@samslick9000]

Patti said in her book that that guy had a microdick and his wife was always screwing black guys behind his back

[@drphot6050]

@@samslick9000 Exactly it happens all the time

[@Marks845]

You guys should watch the whole series, not just excerpts, it's really interesting.Cheers!

[@albaum4370]

How many episodes were there and is this available to purchase?

[@alexrosales7876]

Link! please

[@sexobscura]

why watch the whole when *soundbites* are *how we operate ...*

[@marksmeaton13]

"She was sort of studying art history... but was really just a home-maker". Hearst went to Berkeley, Tobin - one of the best colleges in California. She wasn't going to a finishing school for rich debutantes!

[@drphot6050]

No cap chief privileged lil scamp!

[@January.]

*homemaker

[@Evilushka]

Women’s achievements have always been reduced and minimize throughout history. Thanks for noticing, it’s refreshing you caught that too.

[@pepryan2183]

She could have got in and then just lounged around.

[@vincentreilly5327]

Toobin's quote, "It's not simple to sort out Patty's motivation -Really? Kidnapped at the age of 19 and tortured.. pretty simple and awful. Toobin's motivation is crystal clear.. exploit a young girls tragedy and make money.. it's either that or Toobin's an idiot.

[@lennarthagen3638]

Maybe you are one...idiot that is.

[@twilightblue8566]

It must be hard on Patricia Hearst Shaw to know that some of the SLA who kidnapped and held her prisoner are free now. I was so shocked at the time it all happened that she was put on trial for anything in the first place, and then again when she was found guilty by a confused jury. I hope she had happy years with her new husband and children afterwards.

[@ednavalledeltoro8058]

I hope so!¡!

[@user-wn7ek7eo9h]

She's the reason they are free...lol.

[@terriquintana2827]

I can't stand the kidnapper sitting there free,still proud of what he did,he really thinks he is a bad ass,he should be quietly rotting in a cell somewhere, and whoever said Patty is a hero is warped.

[@katemaloney4296]

The SLA had murdered a teacher, shot and killed an innocent bystander, and were making notches on their belts for every cop they injured, so do I think they would've killed Patty? Yes. DeFreeze was insane enough to have killed a "bourgeois rich white girl" to further his cause. After all, when the shoot-out went down, all he had to do was surrender, but he ordered everyone inside to stand down and fight to the death instead of being taken alive. He (and his cohorts) were insane to the end. Although, I find it ironic that the SLA worshipped Che--who was a homophobe, racist, and HATED black people.

[@TheLatiosnlatias02]

Homophobe? Meh. But racist? I want to see him in a super max prison for that.

[@portugal5698]

Agreed w/ everything you said, up until the Che opinion 😂 Very controversial figure indeed, however, knowing how the US media was, and still is practically ran by the M.I.C. , I have come to realize many of “yesterday’s radical dictator/tyrant-leader,” were for the most part just guys on our side, who eventually didn’t like what they saw w/ Dulles’ & Hoover’s era of forcing capitalistic and facist ideologies down the throats of every overseas nation/civilation that wasn’t able to fight back, leading to guys like Che and Castro, etc. deciding they were being pawns and from that point forward, chose not to affiliate w/ the US on a good level. That of course always tends to end up w/ a nation or leader villainized, in order to justify actions that would make most people sick!! Once again, not calling thek heroes, or innocent by any means, but def couldn’t be any worse than the people who ordered them to be executed.

[@RedNightDragon1]

Just goes to show that Lefties are not particularly intelligent nor morally honest.

[@luvsilly60]

As a I thought prosecuting her was wrong. Now it feels outrageous.

[@jarshall2]

I knew the president’s daughter in Escape From LA was based on something! Hahah.

[@starhunterterra9849]

Interesting comparison, I agree.

[@themuse11]

6:07 'she knew we weren't crazy... we were just determined' uh, no. you were actually crazy.

[@stephaniestanley8041]

And how in the hell is that guy able to retell his crimes from an easy chair instead of a cell?

[@jeremyhall2727]

She's a hero. She did everything she had to do to keep herself alive

[@musicmonster3033]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jeremyhall2727]

@@musicmonster3033 i would have did the same sh*t if isis or any group kidnapped me.

[@perrycomeau2627]

Let's bake a lasagna.

[@VTMCompany]

Next we'll find out Tania can skate...

[@bookdream]

My god the bots are out in full force recently...

[@kmcd1000]

The Strozk text verbatim on joining the Mueller investigation: May 19th, 2017- 'You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I'd be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern that there's no big there there.' Release the Memo!

[@orion8835]

In Stockholm Syndrome the revulsion of the abuse and kidnapping and the deliberations of the victims death, scare the victim to play along. The passion the victim feels to get out is turned to cooperative energy to please the captors in hopes they can get out at some point and escape. The fear of escape becomes an irrational byproduct of this syndrome. P. Hearst was never a true radicalized member. She gave them what behaviors and reactions the captors pressured. All to survive. The SLA were awful people. Their extreme Marxists dogma was a front for their antisocial behavior and grotesque needs to control people. They didn’t help ANY movement terrorizing people and throwing them into trunks of cars and shooting and killing people in their faux psycho war. People have to learn to live within their income. Marxism doesn’t deliver anything to the people but hysterical schemes against anyone higher then themselves. Equal pay and profit sharing are great ideas but they are not where the Marxist types ends. They seem to want everyone who has wealth to give it all away. The SLA were trash and Hearst was victimized and suffered from StockholmSyndrome. She may have been a great 19 yr. old actress but this is how it is when one is cornered like this.

[@fellspoint9364]

You’re full of stale shit

[@sexobscura]

They really DID help with clothing and food for the underprivileged. They were also very adamant to gain money (by ANY means) to support their actions. There were/are no safety nets or welfare causes for radical groups because it's a 'lone shark' enterprise for the TRULY committed. Hindsight is a wonderfully comfortable way to see this (as well as shocking at the time). We live sheltered, cosseted lives (whether admitted or not) and anything threatening that is viewed as extremely detrimental. I really don't condone or endorse such foolhardy behaviour as the SLA did, but we must also understand the frustrations and context of the era (Weather Underground, Baader-Meinhof, RAF) that they were played out if we're to gain ANY insight/knowledge at all

[@Evilushka]

“People have to learn to live within their income”…Even though the entire system is stacked against them so they can’t? Don’t worry, the late stage capitalism is destroying our planet, our economy and our future. There will be another, more successful revolution soon… ✊❤

[@msslsm4158]

She was brainwashed, raped filled with terror and made to believe her family didn't care anymore.I'm 1 year older than Patty and I remember when this happened I believe she had a terrifying case of Stockholm Syndrome and really wasn't responsible

[@markvanderwel7182]

Watch the series and convince yourself.

[@sexobscura]

Absolutely

[@bk-228]

Nope, she’s lying

[@rosemaryaldersonalderson3282]

I read your book,I believe your story,and your glory is that God saw the whole thing,and delivered you out of it,and gave you a life beyound the sorrow,Many are the afflictions of the righteous,but the Lord delivers us out of them,(scripture) when I think of you,I see a survivor of a terrible ordeal.Continue to for good work,on this Earth.

[@merricat3025]

Warning. Cnn haters and trump supporters posting like nutsos on this video.

[@lawrencefisherward3]

I'm thinking to myself, why are people commenting about today's politics and this happen in the 70's. There are plenty of videos you can debate about today's politics on.

[@merricat3025]

DonTeflon 86 weird isn't it?

[@lawrencefisherward3]

Merri Cat very.

[@miketheman4341]

Merri Cat Most amusing given that they are posting prior to it having aired.

[@mariasembrakis5905]

SLA kinda reminds of a old school Antifa. Theyre both left and into communism

[@armandoramos447]

The Misfits “She” brought me here 😂

[@CatLady-be9tn]

None of them should have been released. Evil monsters!

[@VTMCompany]

"I, Tonya"

[@littlecasino60]

'I, Tania'

[@khismet]

LOL

[@evelynwilliams6242]

While I believe, "Stockholm Syndrome" is somewhat a reality, kidnapped persons can be brainwashed but super wealthy Patty Hearst (?) I have some real doubts. She never had to fear any consequences of her actions, for certain.

[@thekillers1stfan]

How long did she retain these beliefs that she supposedly was convinced of during her kidnapping?

[@Raughwe]

I don't know. My thing, she's 19. She was rich, I was pretty poor. What would I have done at 19 under those circumstances, probably tried to make buddies. Even with the most reprehensible people. I was still a child, as was she. The class thing could mean something, but they picked on her at a puppy stage. She was very formative, and maybe, looking for something to belong to. I give her leeway, because a 19 year old girl is definitely a KID in my experience. And there's a thrill aspect that goes along with those formative years. Could be dead wrong, but my opinion.

[@mr.ilikespam6081]

​@@Raughweshe was kidnapped in a apartment building so

[@mzdtmp2]

"The Assault on the Original SLA Compound (DECLASSIFIED)" over on Rumble was interesting, never heard about it before.

[@djdoolittle1315]

God bless you love 💚🇮🇪

[@user-wn7ek7eo9h]

The whole Hearst family must have jumped for joy when the footage of the 900+ dead members of the Jim Jones compound was televised.

[@hankterreros223]

How many of the 1%ers young ones will end up like her???

[@LChem1]

I was in Palo Alto Ca when they cornered the SLA. We talked about driving down to LaLa land because we Knew the LAPD would arson them, murder all of them. We had enough time to make it to the LAPD BBQ but we decided to stay home. And lo, it came to pass.....

[@katemaloney4296]

I dunno, but having a shoot-out with a SWAT team that can lob tear gas into your arsenal probably wasn't the smartest thing you could have done.

[@armandoniebla2677]

Es.una.mujer.muy.valiente.ayudo.ha.los.pobres.ha.repartir.comida.

[@dennispp5045]

Many believe in their cause. But they did it the wrong way

[@ApriliMille]

Watch the deep dive on this subject from the "Last Podcast On The Left". CNN misrepresented every detail in the story and left so much content and context out.

[@brandohim]

She walked in with empty arms, machine gun in her hand..

[@Nocturnal_Mee]

She is good and she is bad, no one understands

[@brandohim]

She walked in in silence, never spoke a word...

[@Nocturnal_Mee]

she’s got a rich daddy, she’s her daddy’s girl

[@Linda-pw8gx]

She was a victim always a victim, should have never been prosecuted

[@brendaniell1765]

He was In on it

[@colleta2400]

Anything is plausible we will never really know. That being said if she was not from wealth she would be behind bars.

[@katemaloney4296]

If she had been poor, this would've never happened

[@brendaniell1765]

Your Right Steve I am

[@TheSuzanneo]

So Patty Hearst “came onto”Steven Weed when she was 16 and he was a teacher. I’d gloss over that too. Gross.

[@davidlabelle361]

Zevon brought me here.

[@Hades_Hates_You]

That son of a bitch Van Owen brought me here.

[@derpmcgerp8062]

JCS Criminal Psychology KZbin Playlist brought me here, lol

[@littlecasino60]

I wondered why Emily Harris wasn't interviewed also, but I had no idea she was the one who shot and killed the woman in the bank. I think she's already out of jail, though, for the second time.

[@trevmac8362]

do you really think she's going to agree to any interview *not a chance*

[@littlecasino60]

Exactly, LOL. I wondered why she didn't until I watched last night and it was said she shot and killed the woman in the bank. Well that would explain it then.

[@markvanderwel7182]

She is the one who should still be in prison. There are people getting life without parole for less. Same with Patricia Hearst. What a joke she got pardon. Bill Harris was not present at most serious events and did his time in jail. He took is chance to tell his part of the story while Patty Hearst had done her part years ago over and over again. The trail of Harris and Patty Hearst is just as interesting as the whole events that happened before.

[@bogeyman38111]

She killed a woman who was nine months pregnant. And F.Lee Bailey was not given credit that he was able to get Hearst out of being charged with that murder since she was an acessory.

[@VM-oi3dk]

She went along with it. She was not brainwashed.

[@mr.ilikespam6081]

You are right but she never believed what they stood for

[@ComedyClips777]

The radical story of Chicken Patty Hearst!

[@derekvincent8547]

upon visiting a good friend in California whom lives with a woman who was assisted by an Home Home Health Care Assistant who was a nicely dressed and spoken Health Care Professional. Guess who? Patty Hearst

[@JR-ly2pu]

Wealth privilege

[@martinetiramani1480]

What is the symbol ?peacock crown with the body of a snake? And what is symbio......

[@starhunterterra9849]

A Seven Headed Cobra. the SLA adopted the name from the symbiotic relationship of idealism and revolutionary action.

[@rosannawong542]

We kidnapped a freak "" lmao

[@derpmcgerp8062]

The dude: "we gonna kidnap you" Patty: "Jokes on you I'm into that sh**" (said in Skeletor voice)

[@kevingonzales5149]

William Randolph Hearst actually killed a man on a boat and was never charged!

[@OsamaBinBombin]

When the captures said they kidnap a freak that’s bad lok

[@January.]

*kidnapped a freak, that's bad.

[@bnkundwa]

On the marriage question

[@jeffberlin3671]

Real event. Thanks CNN. You're the American Channel.

[@tumultoustortellini]

I really don't like the guy they inteviewed that was a member of that group. He doesn't regret his actions at all, put him back in a cell.

[@adenshire1892]

It's my first time I heard her name from s.w.a.t Tv show S1:E:16

[@January.]

*The first time I heard her name was on the TV show S.W.A.T. , S1 E16.

[@brendaniell1765]

Your Right and I am that someone else that they got to portray me I'm the real patty cambell Hearst

[@brendaniell1765]

They still are

[@kansaschief913]

So was this a party of blacks n whites if so thats dope af ✌🏾

[@Juliet_Tobin]

Only one black. Eight whites, Patty included.

[@user-cm2xj7ew5p]

Ella a la derecha, fue la foto me vino a memoria la joven que fue entregada con su mamita, de entre los (hostages) rehenes que soltaron hoy.

[@wolleemanmoth9559]

I CALL , [ BULLSHIT ] SHALL WE PLAY SPADES?? HOW MANY YOU GOT???

[@roberthouston3809]

Close your eyes for one second.....IMAGINE IF THIS PERSON WAS NOT HEARST.....BUT A BLACK POOR MAN!! ..HONESTLY, WHERE WOULD HE BE TODAY???

[@fellspoint9364]

Stockholm my ass. Homegirl skipped on a prison sentence... what a wild bitch. Probably a great lay.

[@lineflyer100]

RELEASE FISA MEMOS....

[@user-tv1fl7fr8c]

lineflyer1 it’s gonna bring the entire Obama admin

[@privatedeletebuttongooglei5221]

Stop accusing Jamie oldaker, a security guard for food 4 less of doing the jewelry store nextdoir robbery.

[@thealterego4231]

Very simple to understand,excitement trumps normality,even if it's a privileged existence!!!!!Yolo!!!!!!

[@user-xf1yk3nw6z]

Sharon Harvey hwy signs Whittier CA

[@brendaniell1765]

No I was not

[@brendaniell1765]

They forced me to do

[@brendaniell1765]

Dorothy Duncan Hearst was my Grandma and they lie about all the president men I remember more then you think

[@brendaniell1765]

They said they were cops

[@privatedeletebuttongooglei5221]

He is trying to target me for being Patricia hearst and then he murdered Amanda cardillo and this is not that piano teacher you all are trying to target with this video.

[@colonistsfirst204]

CLARANCE BISCHOFF IS DANNILL PAULSON BROOKES AND MILLIASA OR KARL AND SARAH GRABBED 🤔

[@thenorthstars2210]

That terrorist guy should be in prison rotting away. You can tell he is proud to be a terrorist killing innocent people.

[@user-xf1yk3nw6z]

You kept her druged up with acid 😮

[@armandoniebla2677]

Arriba.los.pobres.del.mundo.siempre

[@halamkajohn]

complicated. simply 87 pounds. why prosecute 87 pounds??????????????/

[@tylerstamps2786]

Ooohhh Jeffrey Jeffrey Jeffery 😂😂😂

[@fiordalinarodriguez5677]

And do and Tha Lord and Tha love coming there's end Tha lamb and Tha lord is in and Tha heart and Tha people sunny god bless you

[@patriciaculp1756]

Code word

[@brendaniell1765]

And the oriental gal went to Whittier college

[@boydoll3934]

Patty Hearst was neither kidnapped nor brainwashed. She's a clever sociopath. She was the brains behind the operation who knew her so-called abductors long before the event. Anyone who was alive and old enough to know better realized this from the beginning. Btw, I finally watched this teleplay the other night. Hilarious.

[@albaum4370]

I believed her until the shoot out,from that point on she was fucked and she knew it.AND still she stayed,she meant every bit of it.You go TAnia!

[@bogeyman38111]

Few people are aware that she and other students from the college went to the prison to visit the prisoners that later were involved in this crime. Read Revolutions End.

[@katemaloney4296]

That is a helluva a facade to keep up for nearly 50 years. I'll bet you aren't even the same person you were 50 years ago.

[@piratehacker7025]

I seen the letters C-N-N, so I obviously thought this was fake. I did my own research like everyone should do (especially when you see those three letters) and confirmed this story.

[@katemaloney4296]

This happened when I was five, so I've known about this story for 48 years. I read Patricia's book when I was 13.

[@January.]

*I've seen the letters

[@littlecasino60]

That Steven Weed guy is the creepiest guy ever. He comes off as a hanger-on to the Hearst family.

[@jojosmith4792]

Azreil Clary brought me here 🤔

[@oluhamilton2121]

...and the black guy buys the farm....naturally.

[@juancarlosaceves1919]

Lol already 1 dislike

[@imtheredbaron]

That guy said take what ever you want and bolted out the back door.And of course they grabbed the girl.

[@January.]

*whatever

[@brendaniell1765]

He work for cheif of police in Whittier this is a lie

[@moroccvn]

First

[@January.]

What a profound comment.

[@brendaniell1765]

Part of this right and most of it is a lie

[@tellthetruthna8523]

Leave it to CNN to try to rile up wannabe revolutionaries and boost its ratings at the same time by dragging this Patty Hearst mess up again. God forbid MSM should report on real news.

[@starhunterterra9849]

Well, the Liberal Revolutionary Far Left always have very moving propaganda since the 1832 Les Mis Uprising in Paris. For some reason, The Far Right always seem to get a better handling of messy business of Social Chaos.

[@January.]

The prevalence of ignorance in the world is horrific.

[@nedisahonkey]

​@@starhunterterra9849"Le mis uprising" someone gets their history from pop culture.

[@suvayamahamosquitocontrol]

A-Herb.

[@suvayamahamosquitocontrol]

AHEARN.

[@suvayamahamosquitocontrol]

? #Adorn.

[@suvayamahamosquitocontrol]

#DorneyPark #?

[@jakel7820]

Just waiting to see how are you going to blame trump.

[@jakel7820]

Just AGuy says the idiot who just made a stupid ass comment himself.

[@glenknapke6771]

Lockblade lair

[@user-xf1yk3nw6z]

Lyer

[@patricia2180]

what's up with her eyebrows?

[@tobigiuliani9240]

Couldn't take the confines of DEMOCRATES

[@Ssen0nesS]

#releasethememo

[@BobHooker]

If SLA was a Christian Nationalist group the GOP would still be talking about how this was terrible over-reach

[@pepsiman7711]

Well it wasn’t was it, and it was a terrorist commie group lmao