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Few other people. and jones, then, told his people that this was the end. >> killed in an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. >> it was not really a suicide, it was a mass murder as far as im concerned, but when this hit the news, these people lost their live because they followed this charlatan preacher, that to some degree changed the public opinion about why people do the things they do when theyre in these cultic situations. >> the whole country start...

I mean you had a young, redheaded girl coming in to buy two pieces of three inch pipe with caps at the ends. it caught his attention. if she was ever caught, i would be responsible for the case. quite frankly, i didnt put a lot of effort into it because i had a bunch of other murder cases on my plate and she hadnt been found in 24 years. it was as cold as a case can be. >> at 8:21 this morning, members of the minnesota fugitive task force arrested sara jane olson. we believe her to be kathleen s...

Congressman leo ryan and a tv cameraman and a few other people and skroejones then told his pe that this was the end. >> we committed an act of revolutionary suicide protesting the conditions of an inhumane world. >> it was not really a suicide, it was a mass murder as far as im concerned. but when this hit the news and found that almost 900 people lost their lives because they followed this charlatan preacher, that to some degree changed the public opinion about why people do the things they do...

Army. today patty hearst pleaded no contest in connection with that shooting. >> the l.a. case was the worst case for her. there was tons of evidence against her in l.a. there was probably at least a year between our case in l.a. and their case. when she was arrested, we only remained in the jail for three days to go to trial for mels case. >> a los angeles jury found william and emily harris guilty today of the kidnapping and robbery of a sporting goods store. >> we were convicted to a 30-year ...

I was not trying to hide out. i hadnt changed my name. it was a [ bleep ] night marry that we had to revisit. >> so when they did finally file charges against all five of the sla members that were eligible for being indicted, we were happy that finally these people were going to be held accountable. we soon found out that patricia hearst would probably end up being a star witness in the case. and i remember being asked, well, why wasnt she indicted with the rest of them? >> there were four peopl...

Does not cover writing books to make money about how you committed a capital crime and being a get away driver in a bank where murder occurs, makes the driver liable for murder in the first-degree. >> president carter commutes her on the bank robbery charge. he doesnt commute her on any other case. shes still got this murder case hanging over her head. >> patricia hearst had written her book, so most of the details were out there to kind of lead them where to find the evidence, but the years kep...

California to finish her sentence. >> i was required by george martinez to fill out new papers as new counsel. >> martinez got us fired after we brought him into the case, at her request. i mean we found him through a list of divorce lawyers. so her boyfriend who had kids and a wife could get divorced and marry her. >> al johnson, far more than f. lee bailey, devoted his life to patricia hearst. hes a boston lawyer who spent years in san francisco, away from his family. and as soon as she hooks ...

He was safe. >> tonight after living a double life for 25 years, she was quietly arrested in st. haul. >> she was not the same person by appearance back when she did these horrible things. >> part of the problem with the case was, we were going to have a whole set of jurors who didnt know who the sla was, they would have never heard of them, so that led us to looking at some o the other crimes they did. we were overwhelmed. we just couldnt believe that nobody had been prosecuted for the murder. ...

Offensive to change public opinion to get jimmy carter to commute her sentence. she doled out interviews to sympathetic reporters who didnt know all the facts of the case. >> they focused on the victim part exclusively. since shes been observed on television and in magazines as a victim and not as an urban guerrilla, the narrative has been altered dramatically. so its not that hard to pull off. when you have a media empire thats barking your play, thats a big play. >> her family recruits democra...

We could be prosecuted and thats the carmichael bank robbery. >> during her trial for robbing the hybernia bank, the fbi agent that was in charge of the case at the time, he said he would be willing to offer patricia hearst immunity, not for the bank robbery, but for other circumstances, if she would make herself available to the fbi. >> right now patricia hearst has her own version of the bank robbery. ms. hearst named a half does ze members of the sla team. >> we had been accused in the newspa...