The Forgotten Shooting of May 1970
Friday, May 14 2010
THE FORGOTTEN SHOOTING OF MAY 1970
Lap Baker
Last week was the 40th anniversary of the Kent State shooting. But there was another campus shooting in May 1970 that has been largely forgotten by history: the shootings at Jackson State University in Mississippi. James "Lap" Baker was a student at the historically black university. He had endured brutal racism all his life, but he never expected that white police would open fire on unarmed black students. Lap tells Dick Gordon about what happened that warm May night, and how those thirty seconds of gunfire changed his life.
SURVIVING HITLER
Jutta Cords, credit: Surviving Hitler
When historians talk about the Holocaust, it isn't often that the narratives have anything like a happy ending. Jutta Cords is an exception to that. Jutta, her parents and her future husband were all involved in the resistance against Hitler. They were arrested, locked up, interrogated, and amazingly, they all made it through. Her story is told in the new documentary film, Surviving Hitler, A Love Story.
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