"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982

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Premiered May 01, 2016
Patty Hearst on Reasonable Doubt

"I'm sorry, I‘m a coward. I didn’t want to die." - Patty Hearst in 1982 in the first interview she gave after getting out of prison. Lawrence Grobel explained how he became the lucky journalist to get the Patty Hearst interview for Playboy after she had served two years in prison before President Jimmy Carter commuted her sentence.

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