Greensboro [DVD] : closer to the truth

Available

Greensboro closer to the truth

(2007)

Nonfiction

DVD

Call Numbers:

DVD/DOCUMENTARY/GREENSBORO

Availability

Locations	Call Number	Status
Movies	DVD/DOCUMENTARY/GREENSBORO	Available

Details

PUBLISHED

[New York?] : Longnook Pictures, [2007]
©2007

DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

LANGUAGE

English

NOTES

Originally produced in 2007

"[C]hronicles the 1979 Greensboro massacre, in which the Ku Klux Klan murdered five members of the Communist Workers Party. ... This film reconnects 25 years later with the players in the tragedy ... and chronicles how their lives have evolved. All converge when the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission ever held in the United States is convened in Greensboro from 2004-2006."--Container

Director of photography, Scott Anger ; story editor, Richard Hankin ; music, Sheldon Mirowitz

Includes interviews with/appearances by: Signe Waller (writer, activist), Nelson Johnson (Local leader, Communist Workers Party), Marty Nathan (physician, activist), Virgil Griffin (Imperial Wizard, Ku Klux Klan member since 1963), Willena Cannon (activist), Gorrell Pierce (Grand Dragon, Federated Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, 1970's), Paul Bermanzohn (psychiatrist, activist), Jim Melvin (Greensboro Mayor, 1971-1981), Florence Gatten (Councilwoman), Roland Wayne Wood (former local leader, Nazi Party)

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