Girl in a Box
The Untold Story of the Patricia Hearst Kidnap
by John A. Lester
ISBN: 0-9762309-0-9
"My girl's in a box," Randolph Hearst said, voice booming out over the whoosh of water from his bathroom shower.
"What do you think I should do?"
That took me aback. I mimed his words. "What do I think you should do?" said John A. Lester...
So began San Francisco newsman John A. Lester's life as Hearst family spokesman during the kidnap of Patricia Hearst.
Girl In A Box tells the untold story about "the other victims" of the Hearst kidnap case, reveals the anguish of a rich, powerful man unable to find his daughter, and explores the personal conflict of a newsman asked to keep secrets.
Those secrets are told in Girl In A Box, the true story of what really happened to a family, and a newsman when the Hearst heiress was kidnapped 30 years ago.
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Quotes
“Prison begins with the box, in other words what amounts to a closet. The human being who has just been taken from freedom, still in a state of inner turmoil, ready to explain, to argue, to struggle, is, when he first sets foot in prison, clapped into a “box,” which sometimes is dark and constructed in such a way that he can only stand up and even then is squeezed against the door. And he is held there for several hours, or a day. During those hours he knows absolutely nothing! He has never in his life encountered anything like this, and he cannot guess the outcome.”
- Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
THE GULAG ARCHIPELAGO
“It seems quite odd to me that the American people have immediately accepted the fact that one man can brain¬wash nine-hundred human beings in a mass suicide but will not accept the fact that a ruthless group, the Symbionese Liberation Army, could brainwash a little girl by torture, degradation and confinement.”
John Wayne, after the November 18, 1978 tragedy at
Jonestown, Guyana where U.S. Congressman Leo
Ryan was murdered and cult leader Jim Jones and his
followers died in a mass suicide.
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