ABSTRACT
In Jacksonville, Florida, one John M. Knight, aged 45, took an attorney, Christopher Hazelip, hostage and demanded that a Duval County Judge, one Sharon Tanner, appear on local TV and announce her resignation from the bench. She made the appearance and Knight surrendered (Wood, 2004). Over March 17–19, 2003 in a pond between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, Dwight Ware Watson sat in his tractor where he claimed to have explosives and told the United States Park Police about how he, and other tobacco farmers, had been maltreated by the tobacco companies (Stefansson, 2004), before finally surrendering. On July 2, 2002, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, one Victor Ray Leland, aged 50, took a Crown Prosecutor hostage so someone would listen to his rambling concerns about his public assistance payments. The police arrived, the negotiator sympathetically listened to Leland’s rambling. When he finished telling his story, he surrendered (Hayden & Callioux, 2004).
