Robert Stone discusses his approach to making Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst, and offers his ideas about why the story is compelling in the post-September 11th world.
In this edited excerpt from their book, The Voices of Guns, journalists Vin McLellan and Paul Avery describe the group that kidnapped Patty Hearst, and discuss their motivations.
It would take over 25 years, but the innocent Myrna Opsahl would become a nagging reminder of the Symbionese Liberation Army's pointless violence, and an icon for those in the post-9/11 world who sought to bring terrorists to justice.
Patty Hearst may have looked and behaved like an average undergraduate — but the Hearst family's wealth and media power made her a target, and turned her kidnapping into an international news event.
In 1974 a little-known but wealthy Berkeley undergraduate, Patricia Hearst, became a media celebrity after being kidnapped by a group of revolutionaries calling themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army.
