"The Memorial Day Massacre"
When workers died in Chicago, footage was buried....
My second film, The First Attack Ads: Hollywood vs. Upton Sinclair, will air over PBS next month—more on this later. Today I will post below the trailer for my latest film, just submitted to Sundance this weekend: The Memorial Day Massacre, the largely-forgotten tragedy in Chicago when police shot and killed steelworker strikers and supporters—and then Paramount suppressed the only footage of the murders. Narrated by Josh Charles after an intro by Chicago legend Studs Terkel. Music is temporary. Relevant today amid the current surge in union organizing in USA. Your thoughts?
Thank you for sharing and bringing this back to light. Everything old is new again, eh? And history does repeat itself only it feels like the stakes are much higher today.