Season 10 Episode 9: Ethics of Hostage Negotiation

Authors

Jim Botting
Shirley Hoogstra, Calvin College

Streaming Media

Document Type

Interview

Publication Title

Inner Compass

Abstract

An angry criminal takes a hostage and demands to speak with authorities. Who’s most qualified to take the phone? What strategy might have worked with David Koresh? Jim Botting, author of Bullets, Bombs and Fast Talk: 25 Years of FBI War Stories, describes the adventures and dilemmas of his seventeen years as hostage negotiator for the FBI. Shirley Hoogstra hosts. Episode #1009.

Publication Date

2010

Recommended Citation

Botting, Jim and Hoogstra, Shirley, "Season 10 Episode 9: Ethics of Hostage Negotiation" (2010). Inner Compass. 78.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni_innercompass/78