It’s a bit tough for me to believe that The Skies Belong to Us is finally out today. As dedicated followers of this project know, I’ve been working on the book for nearly four years, and there were many moments when its completion seemed an impossibility. The Grand Empress and the progeny can attest to […]
Entries Tagged as '1970s'
The Skies
June 18th, 2013 · 21 Comments
Tags:1970s·books·hijacking·skyjacking·The Skies Belong to Us·writing
The Rise and Fall of R.I.S.E.
May 3rd, 2013 · 3 Comments
The two young men above once dreamed of committing a truly dreadful act: poisoning Chicago’s water supply, in order to kill millions and further the ambitions of their revolutionary organization, R.I.S.E. Mainstream press accounts of their failed caper describe them as incompetent fools, but this case study gives them credit for developing some biological agents […]
Tags:1970s·Allen Schwander·Chicago·crime·Cuba·history·psychology·Stephen Pera·terrorism
Days of Quiet Rage
December 13th, 2011 · 2 Comments
In exploring the nuttiness of the Symbionese Liberation Army as part of my book research, I came across this bygone Congressional document: a transcript of a 1976 hearing entitled “Threats to the Peaceful Observance of the Bicentennial.” The artifact’s real gold is not to be found in the back-and-forth between various Congressmen and witnesses, but […]
Tags:1970s·Occupy Wall Street·protest·Symbionese Liberation Army
“You’ll Talk About Him Forever”
March 19th, 2010 · 7 Comments
In reading about Universal’s decision to nix P.T. Anderson’s The Master, a movie obviously inspired by the founding of Scientology, we found ourselves heartily agreeing with several of The A.V. Club‘s commenters: Perhaps what the world needs isn’t a flick about L. Ron Hubbard’s quasi-religious scam, but a Hollywood-style biopic about the even more fascinating […]
Another Action Jackson Forerunner
February 27th, 2009 · Comments Off on Another Action Jackson Forerunner
It’s videos like these that leave me seriously conflicted ’bout the fact I remember so little of the Seventies. Sort of love how snowmobiles were the height of vehicular technology back then—along with glass-domed helicopters, of course.