In 1972, two young hippies hijack a commercial airplane in a wild attempt to free a famous political activist from jail, setting off one of the strangest, most idealistic crimes of a radical era.
Sources for this episode include:
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking by Brendan I. Koerner
“Convicted Hijacker Arrested in New Plot” (LA Times)
“Black Panther Extradited to the US” (NYTimes)
“Skyjacked: A Nation With No Airline Security” (CNN)
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