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...senior pastor of West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta. -- WILLIAM ANDERS, Apollo 8 astronaut, is now senior executive vice president of Textron Inc. in Providence. -- FRANK BORMAN, Apollo 8 astronaut, heads Patlex Corp., a small California laser company, after serving ten years as chairman of Eastern Airlines. -- STOKELY CARMICHAEL, former head of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, is now known as Kwame Ture and lives in Guinea. -- ALEXANDER DUBkCEK, who was head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, has retired from a minor post in the forestry administration in Bratislava. -- BOB DYLAN, pop singer, still records and tours...
Despite pleas for calm from his widow Coretta Scott King, blacks throughout urban America turned to violence. "When white America killed Dr. King, she declared war," said radical Stokely Carmichael. The nation's cities -- at least 125 in 28 states -- caught fire. Washington, Chicago, Baltimore and Kansas City, were hardest hit. More than 65,000 federal troops were required to quell the disorders, which raged for a week...
...conservative tax crusader who in 1978 co-sponsored (with Howard Jarvis) California's property-tax-cutting Proposition 13 and in later years led ballot fights to limit state and local spending; with acquired immuno-deficiency syndrome, contracted from blood transfusions he received during open-heart surgery in 1982; in Carmichael, Calif...
...streets of Selma, for example, turns into an impromptu "debate" between people from different planets: "Do you believe in equal justice?" "I don't believe in equal nothin'!" The narration by Julian Bond is admirably restrained, and - those interviewed (from such movement leaders as John Lewis and Stokely Carmichael to old foes like Alabama Sheriff Jim Clark) look back without sounding either self-righteous or defensive. Except for its evocative use of spirituals and protest songs as a backdrop, the documentary refuses to embellish a story already brimming with drama...
...playwright-within-the-play Jason Carmichael (David Fisher), an arrogant but talented man, marries a someone (Eliza Gleason) whom he doesn't really love. Then Jason meets Phoebe Craddock (Mira Sorvina), a young woman who idolizes him. But Jason doesn't realize that Phoebe loves him and treats her merely as a junior partner in their writing endeavors--although he obviously likes her presence...