Bibliograph

Revolution's end, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, mind control, and the secret history of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA, Brad Schreiber

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Revolution's end, the Patty Hearst kidnapping, mind control, and the secret history of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA, Brad Schreiber

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Revolution's end

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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Brad Schreiber

Sub title

the Patty Hearst kidnapping, mind control, and the secret history of Donald DeFreeze and the SLA

Summary

Revolution's End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst's relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned; she didn't know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification. Neither Hearst nor the white radicals who followed DeFreeze realized that he was molded by a CIA officer and allowed to escape. His secret mission was to infiltrate and discredit Bay Area anti-war radicals and the Black Panther Party, the nexus of seventies activism. When that failed, DeFreeze was alienated from his controllers and decided to become a revolutionary, since his life was in jeopardy. The kidnapping of Hearst sparked one of the largest shootouts in U.S. history-which killed six members of the SLA in South Central Los Angeles-and ended when the LAPD set fire to the house and incinerated those six radicals on live television, nationwide, as a warning to American leftists

Target audience

adult

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