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At congressman was leaving, they went and shot congressman leo ryan and a tv cameraman and a few other people. and jones then told his people that this was the end. >> 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 i'm concerned, but when this hit the news and people saw that over 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 when they're in these cultic situations. >> the who...

Angeles mel's sporting goods store. their escape was covered by a machine gun-firing girl. today patty hearst pleaded no contest to charges of robbery and assault in connection with that shooting. >> the sentence could have been as much as 15 years to life. >> 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 her case. when we were arrested, we only remained in the san mateo jail for three days and we were transported to go to l.a. to go to trial in the mel's case. >> after deliberating for n...

I hadn't changed my name. it was a [ bleep ] neightmare that we had to revisit. >> so when the second we did file charges against all five 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 end up being the star witness in the case. and i remember being asked, well, why wasn't she indicted with the rest of them? >> there were four people in the bank, there were two get away drivers. bill harris. and patricia hearst. >> patty did not go into the crocker bank the way she went ...

Documents, which we had acquired, to him 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 quids and a wife, could get divorced and marry her. >> al johnson, far more than f. lee bailey devoted his life to patricia hearst. he's a boston lawyer who spent years in san francisco away from his family. and as soon as she hooks up with bernie shaw, she cuts al johnson out and they never speak again. >> i was upset, i worked as hard on any case i had ever worked in my life and i...

Large, that this was a story about one young woman who was kidnapped and forced to commit one bank robbery. and that's what most people remember about this case. she eliminated mel's sporting goods, the bombing she parted in, the death of a woman she was responsible for. >> after so many years, it was always patricia hearst who got the limelight and the fascination with celebrity, semi-celebrity. i think everyone just kind of dropped all hopes of ever holding the sla accountable for my mom's murder. >> but then, there was a glimmer of hope. >> 1999, i was transferred into the major crimes divi...