Word: taping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Murphy was forced to blindfold himself with strips of adhesive tape; then he was dumped into the trunk of a car and taken to a house about an hour's drive from his own. Meanwhile the kidnaper, who called himself a "colonel" of the A.R.A., telephoned word of the abduction to Constitution Managing Editor G. James Minter and to WAGA-TV. "We've got Reg Murphy, editor of the Constitution, "the caller told a TV newsman. "Don't bother to call the FBI. It won't help...
Later that day, irrefutable proof of Murphy's capture arrived at the Constitution-in much the same form that the Hearst kidnapers have used to communicate with the world: a tape recording of the victim's voice. Speaking in clear and controlled tones, Murphy reported his abductor's motivation as the man, the only one who ever spoke during his long ordeal, had depicted it: "The A.R.A., as I understand it, feels that the American news media have been too leftist and too liberal. They intend to do something about that. That's the cause...
Inmates who knew DeFreeze reportedly said that they recognized his voice from the tape, and at least three witnesses to the kidnaping were said to have identified him by photo as one of the two black men who, accompanied by a young white woman, burst into the Hearst apartment. Authorities were also looking for another prison escapee, The-ro M. Wheeler, 29, a jail acquaintance of DeFreeze's, who at one time was active in a California revolutionary Maoist group known as Venceremos. At week's end an intensified search for the two escapees, both of whom have been...
Evidently, that general idea met the S.L.A.'s approval. At week's end, the Hearsts received a second tape recording from Patricia relaying a conciliatory message: her captors would not insist, she said, that Hearst comply to the letter with their original instructions. Quite aside from relieving Patricia's family from an impossible task, the communique was encouraging evidence that the S.L.A. was bargaining seriously and might eventually set terms within reason for her release. "I think I can get out of here as long as they [the FBI] don't come busting in," said Patricia. She also urged...
...label with $400,000 in savings in 1971, and a year later sold out to Warner for $5 million. Though he dresses casually, shaves irregularly and speaks with an un-promoter-like politeness, Geffen drives himself uncompromisingly. "I have the demonstration records of new artists converted to eight-track tape for my car stereo," he says, "so I can audition while I drive...