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Part of the Family (1971-05-19)
About this film
Three young victims of the nation?s tragic confrontations during the past year in Vietnam and Kent State and Jackson State universities are eulogized in an NET documentary which recreates their lives through the remembrance and suffering of their families. The episode profiles young persons who are as varied as America itself; Carmine Macedonio, a postman?s son from Long Island, NY, killed in Vietnam when his tank hit a mine; Allison Krause, a daughter of a Pittsburgh businessman, struck down on the Kent State campus last May 4 during protests over the U.S. invasion of Cambodia; and Phillip Gibbs, a Black Mississippian, father and student, shot at Jackson State University during campus demonstrations last May 15. The families? emotional reactions to their loss vary from grief to bitterness to disbelief, and each person remembers in his own way. Phillip Gibbs? young wife, Dale, an expectant mother with a one-year-old son, hides her grief over her husband?s death as she reminisces about the plans they had for the future: We?d dream of a large house ourselves and about six children; he wanted all to be boys; he wanted a basketball team.? Phillip?s brother Faigin sums up his reaction t…
Directors & creators
Educational Broadcasting Corporation. NET Division
Subjects
public broadcasting, AAPB, Carmine Macedonio, Allison Krause, Phillip Gibbs, Dale Gibbs, Faigin Gibbs, Arthur Krause, Vietnam War, Kent State shootings, Jackson State University shootings, U.S. invasion of Cambodia, grief, anti-war protests, military conscription, National Guard
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