| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Guerrilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst. Dir. and prod. by Robert Stone. Robert Stone Productions, 2004. 90 mins. (PBS Video, 1320 Braddock Place, Alexandria, VA 22314-1698; 800-344-3337; <shop@pbs.org>; <http://shop.pbs.org/education/> [Sept. 12, 2005])
At its apogee, the counterculture movement of the 1960s and early 1970s envisioned a generation empowered to change the United States and the world. The Patricia Hearst kidnapping case underscores the rise and fall of such visions.	1
A PBS documentary in the American Experience series, Guerrilla would be effective in the classroom, as it successfully chronicles the bizarre saga that riveted national attention for some two years. The documentary draws on compelling contemporary footage, including the infamous Hibernia Bank holdup video revealing Patty, also known as "Tania," holding an automatic weapon, as well as the subsequent "shootout" between police and the radical kidnappers in Los Angeles. The documentary also features revealing interviews with media and police officials from the time and with two former members of the radical group—but not with Patty Hearst herself.	2
The 1974 kidnapping of the University of California–Berkeley student, granddaughter of turn-of-the-century newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst, was an irrepressible media event from start to finish. The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), replete with its logo of intertwined snakeheads and designations of its members as generals and field marshals, promptly issued a series of publicized, audiotaped demands on Hearst's family.	. . .

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