Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst (#17.11)

Cast

Episode credited cast:
	Russ Little	...	Himself (also archive footage)
	Michael Bortin	...	Himself
	Timothy Findley	...	Himself
	Dan Grove	...	Himself
	Ludlow Kramer	...	Himself
	John Lester	...	Himself
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Marcus Foster	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Catherine Hearst	...	Herself (archive footage)
	Patricia Hearst	...	Herself (archive footage)
	Randolph Hearst	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Richard Neill	...	Interviewer
	Ronald Reagan	...	Himself (archive footage)
	Howard Shack	...	Interviewer
	Evelle Younger	...	Himself (archive footage)

Storyline

In 1974, a teenage newspaper heiress and Berkeley undergrad was kidnapped at gunpoint from her apartment, setting off one of the most bizarre episodes in recent history. The kidnappers, completely off the map before Patty Hearst disappeared into the San Francisco night, were a small band of young, ferociously militant political radicals, dedicated to the rights of prisoners and the working class. They called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army. Over the course of about three years they robbed banks, senselessly killed two innocent people, instigated a firefight after attempting to shoplift a pair of socks, and, most famously, converted their hostage and victim. They also achieved an undeniably visionary manipulation of the media, inciting perhaps the first modern media frenzy. Presenting resonating questions about the role of the media in America--mouthpiece? Messenger? Truth seeker... Written by Sujit R. Varma  

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