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t ae BARBARA: What did you learn the most, what's the most important thing that you think we should know from this whole bizarre episode which occupied so much of our lives?. wath is there are changes that are needed in the system a lot of us tend to ignore that. As long as there is any cause for change in the system, these radicals will*yet a toe hold. “ dog vit Well, I think that the first thing that we have to e t an BARBARA: You say that they are not there that they are really a bunch of... MARILYN: Yes, there's a limited fringe in every movement, including the radicals, the SLA is their limited fringe. I think the other thing we have to learn from it is the news media. And that the news media has to learn that they can't be victimized and we were. We paid more in ransom than anybody. Prime time television where we aired these communiques and the rhetoric went on for 23 minutes, full pages in newspapers. BARBARA: What should we have done? MARILYN: We should have treated them like we treat any other bunch of gangsters. We didn't cover Dillinger that way. BARBARA: Except it was such a romantic story because it was — . a.girl, an heiress, and so... MARILYN: Alright. Bonnie and Clyde there was a girl too but we didn’t treat them as though they were the second coming of the GOP and that's what we've got to do, We've got to get back to covering gangsters like gangsters, wherever they are. . BARBARA: What are you working on now you nice, delicate Yady, what do people have to be afraid of now? MARILYN: Organized crime in California. It's rather the unknown, unseen factor out there and we have a great deal of it. I just finished doing a special interview with Micky Cohen who has been around for many years and was one of Al Capone's henchmen in which he gets very specific on how he operated in California and more important whose operating now. BARBARA: Want to name a name or two? ILYN: Yes, in fact we did a story last week on KPIX where showed 3 surveillance film of a testimonial dinner for a ster with our mayor entering. and leaving taken by the ice department. a -5-