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Stops. holy shit. and right here in front of me, two black men standing in a driveway and i say to them, look, i'm really sorry, gentlemen, but i need to take your car. we're with the sla and the cops are chasing us. we assumed if we revealed ourselves to be the sla after the program and everything that people would be calm. they would realize us approaching them was not an aggressive act. he looks at me and goes, oh sure. reaches into his pocket and gives me the keys to his car. so we get our stuff from the pontiac and get into this car. we left, we made it out of there, we beat the cops out ...

Big thing of the fact that she sprayed mel's sporting goods with bullets when she could have jumped in the car and gotten away. i don't think that's as definitive as other people do. it's not that simple. but she had changed. on some level, she -- she thought she was ctania. by this time, this is three or four hou since the altercation at mel's. we knew we couldn't go back to the safe house. we were driving a stolen car. we couldn't keep driving it around so we had to figure out another way. >> in 1974, i was 18 years old. i was a senior in high school. i had a ford van for sale. around 7:00 t...

>> seeing the news of the mel's shoot-out, the six others realize the lapd knows they are in town. so they figure they need to get out of where they had been with bill, emily and patty and start looking for somewhere else to go. they are on 84th street and they drive through south central looking for a new place to stay. and they find a house in the middle of the night of may 16th on 54 street, a few miles away. >> we realize that they are not coming. we drove to the hills. we discussed our next move. emily or patricia possibly tried to imagine what we left behind. we realized that we left the...

In his pocket, right? so we et get our stuff from the pontiac and we move that into this car. we left. we made it out of there, we beat the cops out of there, and we're gone. >> the shoot-out at mel's is for me the single most important piece of evidence that patty hearst had joined the sla. patty hearst is is no longer a captive, but she's a participant in the terrorism of the sla. >> i know a lot of people made a big thing of the fact that she sprayed mel's sporting goods with bullets when she could have jumped in the car and gotten away. i don't think that's as definitive as people do. it's...

Altercation at mel's. we knew we couldn't go back to the safe house. we're driving in a stolen car. we couldn't keep driving around so we had to figure out another way. in 1974 i was 18 years old. i was a senior in high school. i had a ford econoline van for sale. 7:00 thursday night, the door knock on my front door and it was the woman wanting to test drive my van. i said, sure. i just tossed her the keys. i got in the passenger seat. we just drove block and turned right, and then she stopped. and she said, can my friends come along. all i notice is william harris getting out of the car, beca...