SPEAKER_02: Reboot your credit card with Apple Card. It gives you unlimited daily cash back that can earn 4.15% annual percentage yield when you open a savings account. A high yield, low effort way to grow your money with no fees. Apply for Apple Card now in the Wallet app on iPhone to start earning and growing your daily cash with savings today. Apple Card subject to credit approval. Savings is available to Apple Card owners subject to eligibility. Savings accounts by Goldman Sachs Bank USA. Member FDIC, terms apply.
SPEAKER_03: Hey, can I let you in on a little secret? Ugh, I'm obsessed with the Drop app. Drop makes it so easy to score free gift cards just for doing my everyday shopping at places like Ulta, Sam's Club, and Lyft. So if you're like me and love a good shopping spree, download Drop today and join the secret club of savvy shoppers. And use my code, getdrop999 to get $5.
SPEAKER_05: This year, Hyundai features their all electric Hyundai IONIQ lineup as a proud sponsor of the I Heart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas with two high tech models. The IONIQ 5 can take you an EPA estimated 303 miles on a single charge and has available two way charging for electronic equipment inside and outside the car. The IONIQ 6 boasts a mind blowing range of up to 360 miles and can deliver up to an 80% charge in just 18 minutes with its 800 volt DC ultra fast charger. Check out Hyundai at the I Heart Radio Music Festival in Las Vegas as their all star IONIQ lineup hits the stage like you've never seen before. Hyundai, it's your journey.
SPEAKER_01: Hey, it's Jenny. We're currently gearing up for a brand new season of Womanica. Until then, we're bringing you our favorite episodes featuring villains, troublemakers, magic, and mystery in honor of October.
SPEAKER_00: Hello, from Wonder Media Network, I'm Brittany Martinez, a producer here at WMN and I'm so excited to be introducing this best of episode of Womanica. This episode was originally part of our October 2021 theme, troublemakers. Today, we're telling the story of the longest skyjacking, yes, stealing an airplane in American history and the young woman at the heart of the crime. I actually produced this episode. When I first heard this woman's story, it sounded more like an action film than reality. So I scored it that way. Now here's host Jenny Kaplan to talk about Catherine Kirkhoe.
SPEAKER_01: According to Modern Myth, Catherine was a good girl with a capital G, all American, like apple pie. She was born and raised in Coos Bay, a small city on the Oregon coast. After high school, she moved to Southern California. Kathy, as she was called, dreamed of being a singer. But instead, she found work in a massage parlor. One day, while she was in the shower, Kathy's doorbell rang. She answered it in her bathrobe. When she managed to rub the soap out of her eyes, she came face to face with Roger Holder. Roger was a Vietnam vet and a member of the Black Panthers. He'd been looking for Kathy's roommate. But he and Kathy hit it off, and soon, Kathy became a member of the Panthers, too. By the early 1970s, the Black Panthers had weathered years of being vilified. By the press, by white Americans, by the FBI. Several of its leaders had been assassinated, others jailed. Some escaped the US, choosing to live in exile. On June 2, 1972, Roger's mother drove Roger and Kathy to the airport in Los Angeles. The couple told Roger's mom that they were heading to Coos Bay to meet Kathy's parents. Instead, they got on a plane to Seattle. Roger then handed a stewardess a handwritten note. It read, success through death. Everyone except the captain will leave the captain. There are four of us and two bombs. Do as you're told and no shooting will take place. Roger gestured to a large briefcase he'd carried on board. Wires were sticking out. The bombs, he implied, were in there. Roger also insisted on $500,000 from the airline and for the release of Angela Davis, a Black Panther who'd been in jail for over a year on several felonies. They received the requested money and Angela was acquitted two days later. Roger and Kathy let about half of the passengers off in San Francisco and the other half in New York. They went back and forth on where they wanted to go. Vietnam was on the list, but they settled on Algiers in North Africa. Roger and Kathy's trip remains the largest skyjacking in American history. In the media frenzy that followed, many questioned whether Kathy had been taken hostage herself Why would a 20-year-old white girl from Oregon hijack a plane in the name of the Black Panthers? But in phone interviews with news outlets, Kathy said that living in Coos Bay had left her in the dark about the world. She decided she wanted to make change rather than sit around waiting for it to happen. Would you jump into something like that without doing a lot of thinking? She said to a reporter. I had a lot of people to think about. A lot of consequences to worry about. For the subsequent six years, Roger and Kathy remained on the run. The international headquarters for the Black Panthers were in Algiers. The couple settled there at first. And then in 1974, they traveled to Paris using fake passports. Roger and Kathy were arrested, but French authorities didn't feel the crime warranted extradition to the U.S. because of its political motivation. For the next few years, Kathy and Roger, but especially Kathy, found their cultural niche. In 1977, Roger walked into the Associated Press' Paris office. He told a reporter that he would go back to the U.S. and face whatever punishment was waiting for him. He also said that he hadn't seen Kathy, now 25, for over a month. He was worried. That was the last time anyone heard from or about Kathy. Roger returned to the U.S. in 1986 and spent two years in prison. But Kathy disappeared. She remains on the FBI's Most Wanted list, and she's still considered armed and dangerous. All month, we're bringing you the best of villainy, magic, and mystery. Tune in tomorrow for another of our favorite episodes. Special thanks to Liz Kaplan, my favorite sister and co-creator. Talk to you tomorrow.
SPEAKER_04: All the girls and satisfied customers on Google had a five-star experience with Dibella. For your home improvement projects, check out the award-winning pros at iHeart.Dibella.us, where quality begins at home.
SPEAKER_06: A busy airport may not be the best way to ease into vacation mode, but when you're an American Express Platinum card member, the vacation starts in the Centurion Lounge.
SPEAKER_02: Hi, welcome to the Centurion Lounge. Mm, what smells so good?
SPEAKER_06: Must be one of the chef's local specialties. Sit back and relax. You think to yourself, what'll be on the menu for your Miami layover? See how to elevate your travel experiences at americanexpress.com slash with Amex. Don't live life without it. Terms apply.
SPEAKER_07: CuriosityStream is the streaming service for people who want to know more. And now check out Curiosity's new series, Queens of Ancient Egypt. When pharaohs held the throne, their wives held the power. We see her taking precedence over the pharaoh, an absolute mastermind. All hail the queens. This is unprecedented. Watch Queens of Ancient Egypt now on CuriosityStream. With monthly annual and bundled plans, find the one that works for you at curiositystream.com.
