STeVE remembers it well.
Feb 16, 2018 3:57:09 GMT
Post by cockledge on Feb 16, 2018 3:57:09 GMT
Steve Hoofman - Radical Activist!
A board member posts a lame anecdote tying into some new Patty Hearst crap:
"First, when I was six years old in 1975 one day my sister and I were out in the yard playing with our Mom. Our Dad was at work. All of the sudden a car pulls up in our driveway unexpectedly and two men in suits get out. They mention to my Mom that they are from the FBI and want to know if she had any knowledge of the whereabouts of Bill Harris, Emily Harris, or Patty Hearst. Now, to give you some context.. there is nobody more mainstream than my mother. She doesn't have a radical bone in her body and certainly would not have been involved in the SLA in the 70's or a kidnapping of any sort. However, she attended Indiana University in Bloomington, IN at the same time as three of the SLA members (Bill Harris, Emily Harris, Angela Atwwood) so she must have had some connection (that she doesn't remember) to one of the three. She told the FBI she didn't have any knowledge of their whereabouts or know them and they left relatively quickly. They never explained why they questioned her but we've always assumed one of them must have lived in her dorm, been in a class with her, etc. I guess we'll never know for sure."
Turns out Steve was involved!:
"My personal connection to the Patty Hearst saga:
I worked at Pacifica Radio KPFK after school and on weekends. I was on staff (which meant I got paid) because I would do any shift, even in the middle of the night. So I'm there after school and I do my shift up to midnight (broadcast engineer and announcer). The midnight guy comes in, starts his show and barfs all over the console. He goes home sick and gives the air to me. So I'm the all night rock & roll DJ! Happy but totally blitzed tired. The early morning guy (Paul) comes in and gets a phone call: "Look behind the studio under the mattress, you will find a tape from the SLA there. Play it and call the press."
So I was on the couch outside the control room, trying to catch some sleep before driving home to school. Paul, the engineer on call played the tape and heard this: Simply that Patty said she was "No longer Patty Hearst, but TANIA."
The Symbionese Liberation Army was in da house! Sh**.
When we heard it, geez, we knew we were all going to be visited by the FBI. The sound quality was so good the feds thought that the SLA recorded it in our studio. It felt weird that the most wanted people in the entire country were right behind our studio that night. Probably even Cinque himself. Creepy.
All of our fingerprints were on the tape after we grabbed it as well which was really bad news.
After we woke up Will Lewis, our general manager and he heard the tape, he called the media saying we were going to broadcast another communique from the SLA and it was a shocker.
That did it, the studio was invaded by the press.
Paul wisely took off leaving just ME to run the sound of the station. So, after 1/2 hour sleep, I was back in the saddle. Someone ran across to Cindy's to bring me back something to eat (that someone was the late Mike Hodel, host of "Hour 25" the most wonderful Science Fiction show on the radio and the greatest guy of all time. He is missed.)
The three networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) set up in the control room with their film cameras and lights plus print reporters and had nothing visually to film except me controlling the tape. They had their microphones aimed at our JBL Studio monitors. They turned the cameras over and I started the tape, broadcasting it on the KPFK air at the same time as the media got it. ELECTRIC MOMENTS! Patty was no longer Patty!!! It was like a weird dream. I was wearing shorts, a blue prison looking workshirt, and had long hair. I also (remember) hadn't left my post since the day before, totally beat.
I got to clear out of there in the late afternoon.
That night when I got home I told my parents I was for sure going to be on Walter Cronkite news and NBC and ABC as well and I WAS! On all three networks. It was big news, Patty had gone over to the enemy.
I told my poor dad that I was sorry I wasn't dressed to be on television because after all, it was a radio station. Humor.
The next day the FBI came and raided our studio (expected). We were all printed and I'm sure have big ol' files. The Feds were itching to arrest each and every one of us, they were sure we were in on it, or guilty of something.
The next day I told my friends in school what had happened but no one believed me. Oh, well.
Seems like a long time ago but it was an exciting time.
I had mixed emotions when many of them burned up in that fire.."
Whew!
"The Symbionese Liberation Army was in da house!"
Fucking Racist.
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-radical-story-of-patty-hearst-cnn-documentary-a-few-personal-memories-on-this-thread.731423/
A board member posts a lame anecdote tying into some new Patty Hearst crap:
"First, when I was six years old in 1975 one day my sister and I were out in the yard playing with our Mom. Our Dad was at work. All of the sudden a car pulls up in our driveway unexpectedly and two men in suits get out. They mention to my Mom that they are from the FBI and want to know if she had any knowledge of the whereabouts of Bill Harris, Emily Harris, or Patty Hearst. Now, to give you some context.. there is nobody more mainstream than my mother. She doesn't have a radical bone in her body and certainly would not have been involved in the SLA in the 70's or a kidnapping of any sort. However, she attended Indiana University in Bloomington, IN at the same time as three of the SLA members (Bill Harris, Emily Harris, Angela Atwwood) so she must have had some connection (that she doesn't remember) to one of the three. She told the FBI she didn't have any knowledge of their whereabouts or know them and they left relatively quickly. They never explained why they questioned her but we've always assumed one of them must have lived in her dorm, been in a class with her, etc. I guess we'll never know for sure."
Turns out Steve was involved!:
"My personal connection to the Patty Hearst saga:
I worked at Pacifica Radio KPFK after school and on weekends. I was on staff (which meant I got paid) because I would do any shift, even in the middle of the night. So I'm there after school and I do my shift up to midnight (broadcast engineer and announcer). The midnight guy comes in, starts his show and barfs all over the console. He goes home sick and gives the air to me. So I'm the all night rock & roll DJ! Happy but totally blitzed tired. The early morning guy (Paul) comes in and gets a phone call: "Look behind the studio under the mattress, you will find a tape from the SLA there. Play it and call the press."
So I was on the couch outside the control room, trying to catch some sleep before driving home to school. Paul, the engineer on call played the tape and heard this: Simply that Patty said she was "No longer Patty Hearst, but TANIA."
The Symbionese Liberation Army was in da house! Sh**.
When we heard it, geez, we knew we were all going to be visited by the FBI. The sound quality was so good the feds thought that the SLA recorded it in our studio. It felt weird that the most wanted people in the entire country were right behind our studio that night. Probably even Cinque himself. Creepy.
All of our fingerprints were on the tape after we grabbed it as well which was really bad news.
After we woke up Will Lewis, our general manager and he heard the tape, he called the media saying we were going to broadcast another communique from the SLA and it was a shocker.
That did it, the studio was invaded by the press.
Paul wisely took off leaving just ME to run the sound of the station. So, after 1/2 hour sleep, I was back in the saddle. Someone ran across to Cindy's to bring me back something to eat (that someone was the late Mike Hodel, host of "Hour 25" the most wonderful Science Fiction show on the radio and the greatest guy of all time. He is missed.)
The three networks (ABC, NBC and CBS) set up in the control room with their film cameras and lights plus print reporters and had nothing visually to film except me controlling the tape. They had their microphones aimed at our JBL Studio monitors. They turned the cameras over and I started the tape, broadcasting it on the KPFK air at the same time as the media got it. ELECTRIC MOMENTS! Patty was no longer Patty!!! It was like a weird dream. I was wearing shorts, a blue prison looking workshirt, and had long hair. I also (remember) hadn't left my post since the day before, totally beat.
I got to clear out of there in the late afternoon.
That night when I got home I told my parents I was for sure going to be on Walter Cronkite news and NBC and ABC as well and I WAS! On all three networks. It was big news, Patty had gone over to the enemy.
I told my poor dad that I was sorry I wasn't dressed to be on television because after all, it was a radio station. Humor.
The next day the FBI came and raided our studio (expected). We were all printed and I'm sure have big ol' files. The Feds were itching to arrest each and every one of us, they were sure we were in on it, or guilty of something.
The next day I told my friends in school what had happened but no one believed me. Oh, well.
Seems like a long time ago but it was an exciting time.
I had mixed emotions when many of them burned up in that fire.."
Whew!
"The Symbionese Liberation Army was in da house!"
Fucking Racist.
forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/the-radical-story-of-patty-hearst-cnn-documentary-a-few-personal-memories-on-this-thread.731423/