The Nine O'Clock Showing

Berkeley, California, Tuesday, February 5, 1974, 11 pm. In apartment 4 of a small wooden building near the campus, the sofa is still out of place and the dead phone hangs from the little table.

Yesterday, Monday, at 9 pm, there was a knock at the door. Three armed people took Delia Kingsmill, 19, an art history student and the daughter of Lyman Kingsmill, owner of a chain of California newspapers. From the street, neighbors saw a green VW van pull away at 9:05 pm.

Today at 5 pm, a San Francisco radio station received a tape with Delia's voice and a communiqué from the Black Star Brigade, which demands the release of two San QuentinSan Quentin A state prison in California, on San Francisco Bay, one of the oldest in the United States. prisoners.

Someone told the kidnappers the right time to knock. Three people knew that door better than anyone.

Living room of a student flat in Berkeley in 1974, the sofa dragged out and the door ajar.