The Zeitgeist: Half a Century of the Patricia Hearst Trial (1)

10.June 2026 Milan Miloลกeviฤ‡

The saga of the kidnapping, brainwashing, crimes, conviction and amnesty of the granddaughter of the creator of yellow journalism, William Randolph Hearst

She did not differ from most of her rich peers, she was not a participant in the student movement in Berkeley whose campus was one of the centers of the counterculture in 1968. She was kidnapped by a militant group that arose on the fringes of the former mass movement, which included white children of the middle class and a black prisoner who borrowed the name of the leader of the first slave rebellion and declared himself a field marshal...

The Zeitgeist: Half a Century of the Patricia Hearst Trial (2)

17.June 2026 Milan Miloลกeviฤ‡

The saga of the kidnapping, brainwashing, crimes, conviction and amnesty of the granddaughter of the creator of yellow journalism, William Randolph Hearst

To wash the image of the extremists, the kidnappers emphasize the Robinhood-like demand that the Hearsts feed the poor; While in captivity, Patricia announces that she has become a guerrilla, Tanja, and then robs banks and plants bombs with her captors. In the longest shootout in American history, the police kill General Field Marshal Sinke Mtume and six of his comrades, and after a year and a half, they arrest Patricia, who declares: "I am Tanya - the profession of a city guerrilla" and then changes her hairstyle and dress

Felton Zeitgeist: Half a Century of Patricia Hearst's Trial (3)

25.June 2026 Milan Miloลกeviฤ‡

The saga of the kidnapping, brainwashing, crimes, conviction and amnesty of the granddaughter of the creator of yellow journalism, William Randolph Hearst

During Patricia Hearst's trial, which began on February 4, 1976 (two years after the kidnapping, three months after her arrest) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, defense attorneys tried to prove that, like the POWs in Korea, Patricia was a victim of brainwashing; the jury sentenced her to 35 years in prison, which was later reduced to seven years, and after serving only twenty-two months she was pardoned and then erased by amnesty

The Spirit of Time: Nine Decades Since the Murder of Federico Garcรญa Lorca, Poet Without a Grave (I)

15.July 2026 Milan Miloลกeviฤ‡

Black horses and creepy people pass through the deep roads of the guitar

Contemporary and victim of Spanish drama from the Catastrophe of 1898 to the Civil War of 1936; the poet who rediscovered to Spain its poetry, its sound and rhythm, flamenco, the deep song of cante hondo (cante jondo) and who combined the dark force (duende) with avant-garde art, and tragedies Bloody wedding, Jerma and the House of Bernarda Alba reminded the Spanish theater of its golden age. He was killed in a toxic mixture of mass terror, homophobia, ideological reckoning and settling old scores, and other inactions that people are prone to when war gives them the opportunity.

THE SPIRIT OF TIME: Nine decades since the murder of Federico Garcรญa Lorca, the poet without a grave (2)

22.July 2026 Milan Miloลกeviฤ‡

Black horses and creepy people pass through the deep roads of the guitar

Contemporary and victim of Spanish drama from the Catastrophe of 1898 to the Civil War of 1936; the poet who rediscovered to Spain its poetry, its sound and rhythm, flamenco, the deep song of cante hondo (cante jondo) and who combined the dark force (duende) with avant-garde art, and tragedies Bloody wedding, Jerma i Bernarda Alba's house reminded Spanish theater of its Golden Age. He was killed in a toxic mixture of mass terror, homophobia, ideological reckoning and settling old scores, and other inactions that people are prone to when war gives them the opportunity.