When you know the answer, what keeps you reading (or watching)?

March 7, 2019

I love reading narrative nonfiction, and that’s the genre for my current writing project. Because I’m in the revision stage …

45 years ago today: SLA kidnaps Patty Hearst

February 4, 2019

February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army, a group of eight, acts on a plan they’ve had for months: to …

June 10, 2018

Last Wednesday I participated in a discussion after a screening of the documentary The Gentleman Bank Robber at Bryant-Lake Bowl in …

April 11, 2018

This short description of Camilla Hall appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on May 18, 1974 — the day after …

March 14, 2018

Photo Credit: pom.angers Flickr via Compfight cc. Some days feel like floodwaters that are out of control. Do you ever …

February 28, 2018

Reaction on Twitter to Bill Harris in the recent Patty Hearst CNN documentary was overwhelmingly negative. I had a few …

February 26, 2018

For what it was advertised to do, I thought CNN’s series “The Radical Story of Patty Hearst” lived up to …

February 25, 2018

“No matter how you look at it, an armed presence in the schools is just the beginning in teaching conditioned …

February 20, 2018

I have collected many newspaper and magazine articles in my nearly 20 years of researching Camilla Hall and her role …