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[Video] Our Justice System

June 16th, 2006 · 2 Comments

Lewis Pitts explains how the prosecuting attorney selected jurors for the State Trial for the November 3rd, 1979 shootings: From the News & Record article, Blame for shooting shared, report says: […] The all-white jury in the state criminal trial was caused by a “problematic jury selection process.” Before 1986, defense attorneys and prosecutors could […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · African American · CWP · excerpt · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · KKK · Lewis Pitts · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · State Trial · video

[Video] Sure We Paid, But We’ve Got Nothing To Apoligize For

June 5th, 2006 · 1 Comment

After the defendants in the shootings were twice acquitted in state and federal trials, a civil trial found that Klansmen, Nazis and members of the Greensboro Police Department were jointly liable for the wrongful death of one of the five CWP members killed. Instead of appealing the decision, the city of Greensboro decided to to […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · civil trial · excerpt · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Jim Melvin · KKK · mayor · Nazi · Obvious Reasons · verdict · video

[Video] GTRC: The Report Is Complete

May 29th, 2006 · No Comments

On Friday May 26th, 2006 The GTRC held a public hearing to officially wrap up their two years-worth of research into the events surrounding the Greensboro Massacre. Unless you go through the evidence yourself and speak to both the survivors and citizens of Greensboro that lived through the experience of 11/3, you’ll never truly understand […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · Community · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · The GTRC · video

[Video] Andy Coon Q&A, 7pm Screening, 5/26/06

May 26th, 2006 · No Comments

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Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Screenings · The Scene on South Elm · video

The Truth And Reconciliation Commission Speaks

May 25th, 2006 · No Comments

The first paragraph of the Executive Summary: The Commission finds that on the morning of Nov. 3, 1979, members of the Klan/Nazi caravan headed for Greensboro with malicious intent. At a minimum, they planned to disrupt the parade and assault the demonstrators (by throwing eggs), violating the marchers constitutional rights to free speech and assembly. […]

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Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · Screenings · The GTRC · The Scene on South Elm · video

[Video] Greensboro’s Child – The Opening

May 25th, 2006 · 1 Comment

A preview of the first couple of minutes of Greensboro’s Child. It’s hard to believe that I started this documentary back in ’97. I was an amateur, in college, holding a mic and pointing a camera at an interviewee, with a light kit set up in no particular order and no clue as to the […]

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Tags: Andy Coon · Community · documentary · excerpt · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · Kwame Cannon · Screenings · The GTRC · video · Willena Cannon

[Video] Scott Pryor: Pandemonium

May 22nd, 2006 · No Comments

This song is told through the eyes of one of the victims of November 3rd 1979. Scott is a great guy and very compassionate music writer. I came across Scott due to his admiration of my documentary. He compared 3 films about the Greensboro Massacre for his thesis paper at Guilford College. I was taken […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · Artistic Expression · Greensboro Massacre · Heartfelt · Loss · Music · Sad · Scott Pryor · Victim · video

[Video] Death To The Klan, 11/3/79 Footage

May 21st, 2006 · 10 Comments

This is footage of the November 3rd, 1979 anti-Klan rally held in Greensboro, NC named, Death to The Klan. The organization that promoted and held the rally was named the Communist Workers Party (CWP). The people slowly rolling up in the cars are with KKK and Nazi groups from around NC, looking to confront the […]

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Tags: 11/03/79 · 11/3/79 · Community · Death to the Klan · Greensboro · Greensboro Massacre · GTRC · KKK · Mourningside Homes · murder · Nazi · video