Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

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The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson by Jeffrey Toobin

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I was too young to know anything that was going on when O.J. Simpson was arrested and tried for the murder of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her very unlucky friend Ron Goldman. I remember it being all adults talked about (most of it going way over my head). I remember the night of the car chase, because it interrupted T.G.I.F. on ABC, and I was trash for T.G.I.F. as a nine year old, even though it was June and all my shows must […]

Occupation: Urban Guerrilla

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Found a book to get me out of my slump! The name Hearst is well known throughout the world due in large part to William Randolph Hearst, the publishing giant, helping build America. His granddaughter, Patricia, made the Hearst name famous for an entirely different reason. In February 1974 Patricia was kidnapped by the Symbionese (made up word) Liberation Army from her apartment. Her fiance, Stephen Weed, told her kidnappers to “take anything” which permanently damaged their relationship. The SLA was poorly run by Donald […]

That’s Patricia to You

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Patricia Hearst, granddaughter of the newspaper magnate who inspired Citizen Kane, was kidnapped from her apartment in February 1974 by a group of far-left crackpots who thought of themselves as revolutionaries. They called themselves the Symbionese Liberation Army, and they had little to no idea what to do with their heiress once they had her. Thanks to their lack of foresight and a badly botched FBI investigation, Hearst’s ordeal dragged on an on until something curious started to happen. Patricia, who had always had a […]



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