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Jon Hamm on Revisiting the Hostage Crisis That Echoed the Jan. 6 Insurrection

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The American Hostage podcast star dishes on his role as the real-life journalist who mediated a 63-hour standoff with a kidnapper who wired a shotgun to another man’s head.

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It’s Jon Hamm’s most intense role in years, but you never see him. Then again, maybe you can picture him perfectly; the imagination’s the point—and what you’re imagining is horrifying.

In 1977, Indianapolis native Tony Kiritsis fell behind on mortgage payments.

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