ENCORE The Kidnapping of Patty Hearst | The Negotiation

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It's late in the morning on January 11th, 1974. Cinque Mtume is tossing and turning on an old musty bed in Concord, California. He has a splitting headache, his mouth is hot and parched. And as the sunshine slants in through broken blinds, it feels like Cinque is being hit on the head with a baseball bat. Cinque rubs his eyes and tries to shake off the misery. He's in the throes of another brutal hangover, the predictable result of staying up late drinking bottles of wine with his comrades and talking until the early morning about how they're going to change the world. There was a lot of conversation about the need to overthrow America's systems of oppression and greed, and there were a lot of big promises about actions the group is planning to take. But for Cinque, making promises has never been enough. He founded the Symbionese Liberation Army, a left-wing organization,