Film & Discussion: “That Strange Summer” with Director Geri Alumit Zeldes
When
Wednesday October 14, 2015: 7:00pm to 8:30pm Add to Calendar / Add to Google Calendar
Where
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
Description
In the summer of 1975, 27 patients experienced respiratory failure and 11 patients died during a six-week period at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor. In June 1976, after an intense FBI investigation, officials charged two Filipina nurses — Filipina Narciso and Leonora Perez — with injecting the patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon.
Through interviews, archival news stories, and FBI documents obtained via Freedom of Information Act requests, the hour-long, unrated film That Strange Summer reconstructs the investigation, trial and movement to release the two nurses, who were convicted of poisoning the patients.
Following the film, the award-winning director, Geri Alumit Zeldes, will lead a discussion on topics presented in the documentary. Zeldes is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Michigan State University.
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Subjects
Downtown Library: Multi-Purpose Room
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Local History
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