Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt | Blank on Blank

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"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die."
- Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison
As told to Lawrence Grobel (lawrencegrobel.com)
Hear more from this rare interview: blankonblank.org/patty-hearst
Grobel explained how he became the lucky journalist to get the Patty Hearst interview for Playboy after she had served two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence:
“Patty Hearst is coming with her husband for breakfast to the mansion,” Christie Hefner told me over the phone. “Why don’t you join us?”
“You mean to see if she’d agree to do the Interview?” I asked. I had done several Playboyinterviews by then, including marathon sessions with two highly elusive stars, Barbra Streisand and Marlon Brando
“You never know,” Christie said.
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From hours of exclusive interview tapes, we honed in on the idea of "reasonable doubt" and Hearst's unsuccessful claim that she was brainwashed by her captors, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), and forced to join their wild ride of bank robbery and crime. Hearst says the SLA told her she would be killed if she didn't pledge allegiance to their radical cause.
What would you have done in her shoes?
Get more on the Patty Hearst case and back story to the interview with one of the most infamous women of the 20th century.
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@KerryHallPhD 8 жыл бұрын

To me this is the most fascinating of these interviews yet.

@BlankonblankOrg 8 жыл бұрын

Really? Cool!

@jambajoby32 8 жыл бұрын

I agree as well. You think you really know a lot in life and in this episode, you get the first hand account of a criminal and can't help but feel like this could have been any one of us.

@DippyTheDM 8 жыл бұрын

I liked the fact that you guys put in an explanation for some people who may not know who the person is. You oughtta do that more often. :D

@johnbourne9822 8 жыл бұрын

This all too brief segment shined a brighter light on the complexities of Patty Hearst's ordeal than all the books, movies and documentaries combined. Please do a part two.

@pleasegetalife_whatswrongwu Жыл бұрын

just listen to the whole interview man

@johnbourne9822 Жыл бұрын

@@pleasegetalife_whatswrongwuwhere can I find the whole interview?

@pleasegetalife_whatswrongwu Жыл бұрын

@@johnbourne9822 I can't find it anywhere actually and now I'm very frustrated sorry, I wished this channel showed where they got all there shit from

@PogieJoe 8 жыл бұрын

God, I adore this channel. Thank you all for all the hard work. They never disappoint.

@Nour-ut1hu 8 жыл бұрын

you guys do an amazing job in bringing those interviews to life! very underrated channel.

@monicalee7140 8 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the effort you put in this thing) its amazing :)

@ninafoster9018 6 жыл бұрын

Does Toobin talk about how her weight plummented to less than 90 pounds while she was with these lunatics? Does he talk about how her physical and mental evaluations showed that her IQ had dropped from 130 to 109? Does he talk about the physical stress that precipitated her lung to collapse not long after she was caught? Of coarse he doesn't. According to him she was enjoying herself.

@Juliet_Tobin 2 жыл бұрын

This isn't Toobin interviewing her but nope, he doesn't. I was so irritated reading his description of her rapes: "By modern standards of consent, it is difficult to see how Patty could have willingly consented to sex with Wolfe and Defreeze." So I added, "BUT HE'LL TRY" in ballpoint pen even though it was a library book.

@manojs1000 8 жыл бұрын

Wow! You guys are producing some seriously kick-ass, informative, well-presented material. Wow, just wow!!

@whtyc 3 жыл бұрын

I’m so glad our society has progressed to the point that this interviewer would be skewered for this nowadays.

@xinfinity4756 2 жыл бұрын

@laurelmckay2514 9 ай бұрын

really? I hope so. I hope you are right. The thought makes me feel a little better. Thank you.

@eyeballsushi 8 жыл бұрын

I wasn't really sure who Patty Hearst was before I watched this (I knew her name from an Ice Cube lyric). In terms of drawings I think it's the most interesting one yet.

@Swampzoid 6 жыл бұрын

I read her memoir "Every Secret Thing". I was 12 when she was kidnapped. I remember it.

@Juliet_Tobin 2 жыл бұрын

@rottiefan I read that book too - I was struck by how much warmth and genuine affection Hearst felt for Wendy Yoshimura who had nothing to do with her kidnapping - she and the Harris's hooked up with her later. Wendy saw how Patty was bullied by the surviving members of the SLA and did a lot to liberate her from them, if you'll pardon the pun.

@markfrellips5633 7 жыл бұрын

Definitely one production that feels like it'd be incredibly engaging either as is or with the original interview at the Newseum in DC

@sarahmanyoki1035 8 жыл бұрын

Will you do Jeff Buckley?? Or River Phoenix?? They've got some great interviews

@andrewaronson3364 4 жыл бұрын

we never got our Jeff buckley

@Dokinbox 8 жыл бұрын

Beautiful artwork, beautiful message

@charlesgill1177 7 жыл бұрын

Dokinbox what is the message?

@michaelpuckett9602 4 жыл бұрын

"You're so fragile; I'd be afraid that if I punched you in the eye it'd break your whole face." The irony is so painful. Was that question brought to you by the non-comedic Eric Andre show?

@zwebb7327 3 жыл бұрын

Seriously. It's like telling Eric Andre you doubt he could offend someone.

@DeepTimeUnit37 6 жыл бұрын

What's the music used in the background? I recognize two segments from older radio shows from the 1970s.

@alexanderjones1669 8 жыл бұрын

Favourite channel on KZfaq. Just waiting for Bob Dylan!

@rightthero2811 8 жыл бұрын

Me too, they need to do bob Dylan

@yppykya 8 жыл бұрын

Got an original FBI wanted poster , wonder if I could get her to autograph it ?

@PatrickSmithAnimation 8 жыл бұрын

+David Williams i think she lives in my hood.

@yppykya 8 жыл бұрын

+Patrick Smith cool, always been afraid to mail it to her. Thought she might destroy it. Saw on internet they are worth up to $500

@Juliet_Tobin 2 жыл бұрын

I hope you didn't try . You'd never see it again . She might have signed it many years ago but she's got a massive chip on her shoulder about it these days. It's a shame. John Waters once said she had a wonderful sense of humour back in the '90s and it comes through in Serial Mom - her comic timing was great!

@ANT-ej8ob 8 жыл бұрын

cool, nice artwork!

@rightthero2811 8 жыл бұрын

How much did it cost to animate it

@groverasylum9626 8 жыл бұрын

can anyone point me in the direction of the full interview?

@BlankonblankOrg 8 жыл бұрын

The whole interview has not been released. But we have more outtakes in our podcast and blankonblank.org

@groverasylum9626 8 жыл бұрын

+Blank on Blank have fun making cartoons

@josephjames.2277 6 жыл бұрын

7 years ain't bad for bank robbery.

@lousalvador1632 5 жыл бұрын

Huh. Who knew she puts it above The Black Album.

@VW613 3 жыл бұрын

As a teen I could not believe what a circus her trial was. How ignorant & bias I thought they all were to even THINK she was guilty.

@salarmarri4801 8 жыл бұрын

do a freddie mercury.

@isaacrichard7171 2 жыл бұрын

Is it just me who thinks that the man running the interview was a little biased

@samaraisnt Жыл бұрын

No, anyone with ears under 65 agrees with you.

@isaacrichard7171 Жыл бұрын

@@samaraisnt thank you. Just wanted to make sure

@FrancescaS. 4 жыл бұрын

Her voice sounds like Lana Del Rey’s 👀👀👀

@lelandlee5008 6 жыл бұрын

BILL AND EMILY HARRIS LIVED ON THE CORNER OF 32nd AND Wst IN OAK PARK SACRAMENTO

@MissKilman 5 жыл бұрын

I think the scene with the baby disappearing from her arms when she talks about wishing things had never happened was a poor choice by the animator and a really low blow in a way.

@SnekOil 10 ай бұрын

Harsh Truth

@aureliusva 7 жыл бұрын

I shot my first deer and learned I am more of a fisherman than a hunter. She was given a gun for the robberies, was she given bullets? She doesn't even try to stop anything.

@ibtaba 5 жыл бұрын

She still seems like she is in denial of what she actually did, some of her crimes are on camera and she acts like she should be absolved of her actions.

@DonkeyKongBMAC 4 жыл бұрын

You are a moron

@KristoXVII Жыл бұрын

Yeah cause she she was brutalized her iq dropped by by more then 20 she lost weight and was less than 90 pounds locked in a closet for 54 days

@arthurrobey4945 7 жыл бұрын

Banks rob us. We do not rob banks, OK?

@darrenwatson6667 2 жыл бұрын

She was guilty

@MrOctober44 7 ай бұрын

The interview would have been entertaining/interesting enough. I really didn't need the cartoon.

@Calbeck 5 жыл бұрын

I think "reasonable doubt" ended at the point where they gave her an automatic weapon and she still went through with it instead of saying "oh there's the cops thank God I'm going now, thanks for letting me defend myself from my rapists" or just, y'know, gunning them all down herself. And yeah. I'm speaking as a rape victim.

@makcrossing 3 жыл бұрын

We're you also locked in a closet for 57 days?

@Juliet_Tobin 2 жыл бұрын

I agree she falls into the "shade of grey" category. Yes she was kidnapped against her will, shut in a closet for 57 days, raped, terrorized - she had no choice but to participate in that famous bank robbery but how do you explain her actions after that? All but two of her captors were killed in LA 3 months after her kidnapping - she fired over 40 rounds from a submachine gun at a sporting goods store (miraculously killing no-one), held two men hostage along with the Harris's and drove the getaway car in another bank robbery where an innocent woman was killed. And that didn't stop her making bombs to kill police - she even planted one herself (the fact that it was a dud was no thanks to her). She wasn't even living with her two surviving kidnappers at the time of her arrest. All this does set her apart from other famous victims of Stockholm Syndrome - Shaun Hawnbeck, Elizabeth Smart, Jaycee Dugard, Steven Stayner et al. But who knows what was really going through her mind? One of her captors, Bill Harris, said "We saw Patricia as the exception to all rules." As unlikable as Harris is, I think there's some truth in this. She is a genuine enigma.

@laurelmckay2514 9 ай бұрын

so, he's not interviewing her. he's just here to argue with her. Gosh. How helpful. And I'm sure he's very well qualified to judge her or he wouldn't do it. Thanks for your help guy. Stupid Patty Hearst. What would she know?

@TheRealNormanBates 5 жыл бұрын

4:40 and that is the moment she was convicted. If there was never, ever ever a thought of "kill or be killed", then how can she say she was threatened with death if she didn't comply? I would like to see the camera footage of her in the bank, because the look on her face will tell you all you need to know.

@jordananderson248 3 жыл бұрын

that interviewer was mad disrespectful 1) firstly after everything she'd been through, he said she's "too frail to take a punch in the face" 2) then when she was explaining her condition with advanced academic words he interrupted her with "who told you this?" when she clearly did research herself 3) then he dramatically overstated how the robbery went down even though she hadn't killed or even WANTED to kill anybody I know this was recorded in the '80s but i honestly wouldn't have even humored him with an interview

@Juliet_Tobin 2 жыл бұрын

He wasn't referring to the bank robbery. He was talking about when she was alone in a van and fired two guns at a sporting goods store to rescue two of her captors from being arrested. She fired 40 rounds using a submachine gun. There's footage showing bullet holes she fired through the window of the store. I don't think she WANTED to kill anyone but it's close to miraculous that nobody was hurt. The owner of the store later sued her, claiming he was suffering PTSD as a result of the shooting.

@ianmoffet5080 4 жыл бұрын

Idk if this was a dude I probably wouldn’t have been pardoned and had a longer sentence. There is a level of Stockholm but at some point with the stuff she did and said there needs to be accountability. Which she got I think. But man just listen to her eulogy. The way she defends herself at the shooting at Mel’s Idk man