Just heard from my friend Adam Zucker that there will be two screenings of his documentary Greensboro: Closer to the Truth upcoming in the New York city area. Here are the ‘tails. One of the screenings is at Brooklyn College at the Tanger Auditorium.

Sunday October 26 the film will be shown at the Ethical Culture Society
as part of a day long workshop regarding public forgiveness. The film
will be screened at 1:45 in Ceremonial Hall on the 4th floor. Ethical
Culture is at 2 West 64th Street, more information available at http://www.nysec.org/2008/10/26/
 

Monday November 3 at 6:30 the film will be screened at Brooklyn
College, in the Tanger Auditorium in the Campus Library. Photo IDs are
needed to enter building, and inform the guards at desk that you’re
going to the screening. For travel info, http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/pub/visitbc_directions.htm
 

I will be at the Brooklyn event (which is the 29th anniversary of the
killing at the heart of the film); I don’t know yet if I’ll be able to
make it to Ethical Culture. Principal characters from the film
(survivors Paul and Sally Bermanzohn and Greensboro Truth Commissioner
Pat Clark) will be at both events.

About the film:

On November 3, 1979, members of the Communist Workers Party were holding a Death to the
Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina. Suddenly a caravan rounded the corner, scattering
the protesters. Klansmen and Nazis emerged from the cars, unloaded an arsenal of guns and began
firing. Five people were killed in what became known as the Greensboro Massacre.

Greensboro: Closer to the Truth reconnects 25 years later with the players in this
tragedy—widowed and wounded survivors, along with their attackers—and
chronicles how their lives have evolved in the long aftermath of the killings.  All
converge when the first Truth and Reconciliation Commission ever held in the United
States is convened in Greensboro from 2004-2006 to investigate the Massacre. As the
Commission struggles to uncover what actually happened and why, the participants confront
the truth of their past, and struggle with the possibility of hope and redemption.