Grabs your attention and holds you hostage until the very last page. A brilliant blend of dogged factual reporting and fiction.” — Ronald G. Shafer former Wall Street Journal Washington political features editor

Roger D. Rapoport, has published a fascinating and entertaining new bookis a knowledgeable reimagining, cleverly plotted, stylishly told. a quick and satisfying read. As Rapoport writes, "I wrote this novel because I believed the American public deserved nothing but the truth. Very sorry about the delay. This book took a lot longer that I expected. Hope it was worth the wait."
It was indeed." - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune/WGN

Searching for Patty Hearst author Roger Rapoport who now lives in West Michigan, offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment. This 50th anniversary appearance offers new information about the case. During his author tour he has learned important new details about the case. Learn more here.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com Autographed books will be available from Horizon Books. For more information contact the publisher, Lexographic Press.

Source: https://pattyhearst.com/

A GREAT SUMMER READ

Grabs your attention and holds you hostage until the very last page. A brilliant blend of dogged factual reporting and fiction.” — Ronald G. Shafer former Wall Street Journal Washington political features editor

Roger D. Rapoport, has published a fascinating and entertaining new bookis a knowledgeable reimagining, cleverly plotted, stylishly told. a quick and satisfying read. As Rapoport writes, '‘I wrote this novel because I believed the American public deserved nothing but the truth. Very sorry about the delay. This book took a lot longer that I expected. Hope it was worth the wait.’
It was indeed." - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune/WGN

Searching for Patty Hearst author Roger Rapoport who now lives in West Michigan, offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment. This 50th anniversary appearance offers new information about the case. During his author tour he has learned important new details about the case. Learn more here.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

Veteran reporter Roger Rapoport will sign his new book “Searching for Patty Hearst” at Fair Isle Books on Washington Island this coming Tuesday. The title is a true crime novel and published this year which is the 50th anniversary of the famous Patty Hearst kidnapping.  The author will sign books on Washington Island, a key location in the reimagined story. Rapoport will be at Fair Isle Books, 1885 Detroit Harbor Road  (between the post office and Red Cup Coffee House), from 1:30 to 3:30 PM on Tuesday, June 25th. 

“I still lived in California when Patty Hearst was kidnapped and I still remember how dizzying and fascinating the case was to me and everyone around me,” says bookstore owner Deb. “Getting to go back now and see the story through the eyes of someone who covered it closely from the beginning pulled me in immediately.”

Called a “gripping, evocative, and suspenseful novel” by historian Adam Hochschild and “fascinating and entertaining reimagining” by the Chicago Tribune’s Rick Kogan, the book is based on Rapoport’s extensive coverage of the kidnapping, including ghostwriting for her fiancé Steve Weed and interviewing kidnapper Bill Harris. 

From her initial kidnapping in February 1974 by the radical Symbionese Liberation Army and her decision to join their revolutionary cause to the SLA’s fatal clashes with the police and Hearst’s conviction for armed bank robbery, the story in Searching For Patty Hearst goes beyond the headlines to explore alternate theories of the case and the many complicated personalities of one of the seventies most famous dramas.

Award winning Coming Up For Air screens at 6 p.m. with the National Alliance for the Mental Ill of Madison County, Indiana. This special community event at the Anderson Community Hospital Education Center focuses on the key role caregivers play helping those in need quickly access mental health resources. NAMI speakers who facilitate free support groups and host community education events are featured.. For more information please contact Phil Parris at namimcpparris@gmail.com or 765-617-7697 Learn more about NAMI at https://www.namiindiana.org/madisoncounty

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport, who now lives in West Michigan, offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport, who now lives in West Michigan, offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

Source: pattyhearst.com

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

Roger Rapoport visits Book Passage in Marin County on the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. Immediately after the 19 year-old media heiress was abducted from her Berkeley apartment on February 4, 1974, he began covering the story for New Times, newspapers and then went on to ghost write a book on the case with Patty Hearst’s fiancé. That book was never published, and now, half a century later, he revisits the case in his new novel Searching for Patty Hearst. The book draws heavily from that time and explores alternative theories of one of the most bizarre and polarizing crimes in American history. Rapoport gives voice to much of the story that fell outside the bounds of journalistic coverage

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. February 4, 1974, Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s home in south Berkeley where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

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On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com 110 The Embarcadero, San Francisco, CA 94105, 415 597 6705

Details are at https://pattyhearst.com

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look via this online streaming event at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com This event is online only. For more details visit https://www.lacityhistory.org/events

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

Special Note: For the convenience of patrons the author will also be appearing at this location at 1 p.m. on Thursday January 25

On the 50th anniversary of the Patty Hearst kidnapping Roger Rapoport offers an inside look at the unanswered questions surrounding this world famous abduction of William Randolph Hearst’s granddaughter from her Berkeley apartment.

In 1974, Rapoport, a contributor to publications like the Atlantic, Esquire and Rolling Stone, went to work for New Times covering the kidnapping of Patty Hearst, a few blocks from his Berkeley home. His exclusive reporting focused on the life and times of Steve Weed , the fiance the Symbionese Liberation Army left behind as these revolutionaries stuffed the love of Weed’s life into a Chevy trunk and sped off into the night.

Weed moved into Rapoport’s house where they wrote a big advance book together on the case. Shortly before completion the former Princeton marijuana dealer who began an affair with Patty when she was a 16 year old student at the high school where he taught, sued to block publication of the book. The following year one of Rapoport’s relatives, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mark Brandler (best known for the Onion Field Murders trial), presided over a key trial that included Patty Hearst as a defendant with two of the SLA members.

After covering the San Francisco Hearst bank robbery trial in 1975 he went on, thirteen years later, to score an exclusive Oakland Tribune with Bill Harris, the man who actually kidnapped Patty Hearst and wound up fleeing cross country with her and his wife Emily Harris.

While others let the story rest he interviewed Dr. Thomas Noguchi the coroner to Marilyn Monroe, Janis Joplin and Robert F. Kennedy as well as six of Hearst’s fallen Symbionese Liberation Army comrades. Year after year Rapoport continued to pursue people who refused to go public and ultimately became convinced that nonfiction accounts of the kidnapping, including Patty Hearst’s own account of her life on the run with her kidnappers, fell short. His novel Searching for Patty Hearst offers a new look at this fascinating story. More details are at pattyhearst.com

United Way of Door County sponsors this special screening of Coming Up For Air with community partners. Local mental health experts join cast members and producer Roger Rapoport for a town hall conversation on the key role caregivers play helping those in need quickly access mental health resources. A light dinner begins at 4:30 p.m. following by a 5 p.m. screening and 7 p.m. community conversation. There is no charge for this public event. For more information contact Cami Peggar of United Way at (920) 421-2177.

Filmed on location in Holland, Grand Haven, Muskegon, Grand Rapids, Ludington, Ann Arbor and Milwaukee, Coming Up For Air comes home to the Momentum Center for a special community event celebrating the key role caregivers play helping those in need quickly access mental health resources. Light refreshments at 5:30 p.m. precede the 6 p.m. screening and community conversation. We honor the Momentum Center’s Barbara Lee Van Horsen which inspired this film and Executive Producer Dorothy Johnson. Producer Roger Rapoport will join Grand Haven cinematographers David Darling and Tyler Joslin along with West Michigan cast members featured in the film including Judy Johnson, Jacqui Bernhardt, and Kirk Wahamaki. For more information contact the Momentum Center at 616 414-9111.

Costars Deborah Staples and Chase Maser join director Robert Cicchini and producer/coscreenwriter Roger Rapoport for a special presentation of Coming Up For Air at Ann Arbor’s historic Michigan Theater. Mental health experts will join this Cinetopia Festival special event for an audience conversation after the show.

Filmed on location in Ann Arbor, Coming Up For Air has won seven best feature awards and a dozen other honors including six best actress awards for Staples. Partnering with local community mental health agencies, this special event focuses on how caregivers can quickly help those in need quickly access evidence based treatment. For more information contact the Michigan Theater at https://michtheater.org/ . Phone (734) 668-8397 or (231) 720-0930