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Tag Archives: 1974

Movie review: Patty Hearst (1988)

August 10, 2015

In the past couple of weeks I’ve immersed myself in the details from Feb. 4-May 17, 1974, from when the …

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40 years, and the SLA is still part of the conversation

May 17, 2014

Forty years ago today—May 17, 1974. On that day, a shoot-out with SWAT team officers in Los Angeles left six …

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40 years ago today: Patty Hearst kidnapped

February 4, 2014

An odd series of events today led to this post. I don’t blog about this very often, but my current …

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