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...California, were made to appear as the warmest and most sympathetic of characters, while the kidnapers--and, by extension, the Left--seemed violent and heartless. California poor people were cast as beggars, taking morsels of food from the rich under the threat of an innocent woman's death, while Randolph Hearst seemed a man genuinely concerned for the welfare of the masses. The SLA's topsy-turvy tactics were condemned by Ramparts and a host of activists including Cesar Chavez, Huey Newton, Angela Davis, Jerry Rubin, and Jane Fonda. Even the Weather Underground expressed its sympathy for the SLA cautiously...
...first the Los Angeles coroners could determine only that three were females and one of the males was black and the other white. To help in the identifications, the coroner's office sent for Patty Hearst's dental records. Early Saturday morning, Patty's father, Randolph Hearst, called the coroner's office and asked to be told the results of the study before word was given to the press...
...will the public respond? Democratic Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virginia had his doubts. On a recent road trip, he said, he found that no fewer than 63% of all drivers were exceeding the still-in-effect 55 m.p.h. national speed limit. Added Senator Henry M. Jackson, Democrat of Washington: "There is no direct evidence to support the contention that by raising the price you are going to ration the amount of gasoline that will be available." On the other hand, Congress and the Nixon Administration are extremely reluctant to impose such mandatory conservation measures as gasoline rationing...
...Republican heartland studied the transcripts with sinking hearts and mounting dismay. One after another, they reversed then-previous positions and wrote, in sorrow and in anger, editorials calling for Nixon's resignation or impeachment. In a column published by all of the Hearst newspapers, Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. said that the President "seems to have a moral blind spot." The Omaha World-Herald saw him "as a man incapable of providing the moral leadership which the United States is entitled to expect from its President." The Chicago Tribune deplored his "lack of concern for high principles...
From a column by Editor in Chief William Randolph Hearst Jr. that appeared in all the Hearst papers...