Revolution's End ─ The Patty Hearst Kidnapping, Mind Control, and the Secret History of Donald Defreeze and the Sla

Revolution’s End fully explains the most famous kidnapping in US history, detailing Patty Hearst’s relationship with Donald DeFreeze, known as Cinque, head of the Symbionese Liberation Army. Not only did the heiress have a sexual relationship with DeFreeze while he was imprisoned, she didn’t know he was an informant and a victim of prison behavior modification. Neither she nor the white radicals who followed DeFreeze realized that he was molded by a CIA officer and allowed to escape, thanks to collusion with the California Department of Corrections. DeFreeze’s secret mission: infiltrate and discredit Bay Area anti-war radicals and the Black Panther Party, the nexus of 70s activism. When the murder of the first black Oakland schools superintendent failed to create an insurrection, DeFreeze was alienated from his controllers and decided to become a revolutionary, since his life was in jeopardy.Revolution’s End finally elucidates the complex relationship of Hearst and DeFreeze and proves that the largest shootout in US history, one that killed six members of the SLA in South Central Los Angeles, ended when the LAPD purposely set fire to the house and incinerated those six radicals on live television, nationwide, as a warning to American leftists.

Brad Schreiber’s seven books include Becoming Jimi Hendrix, selected for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library. He created the truTV seriesNorth Mission Road, based on his book, Death in Paradise. He also writes for theHuffington Post and was a National Press Foundation fellow. Schreiber is a visiting professor of Nonfiction at University of Wisconsin, Madison.