‘American Hostage,’ with Jon Hamm, has resonance in the present

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Bliss was it in the late 1970s to be alive, as Wordsworth almost said, but to be a domestic terrorist was very heaven. Just ask Indianapolis’s Tony Kiritsis, who, in February of 1977, parlayed an ideological kidnapping into an unlikely turn as a folk hero. Children may wonder how America came to include millions who cheer, say, the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson. The Kiritsis saga is part of the answer.

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