Whitney Dow
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"In 1998 in Jasper, Texas, James Byrd Jr., a black man, was chained to a pick-up truck and dragged to his death by three white men. The town was forever altered, and the nation woke up to the horror of modern-day lynching. In Two Towns of Jasper, by filmmakers Whitney Dow and Marco Wililams, two film crews, one black and one white, set out to document the aftermath of the murder by following the trials of the local men charged with the crime. The...
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This ABC news program discusses the documentary, Two towns of Jasper, made by two filmmakers, Whitney Dow and Marco Williams, during the trial of men charged with the murder of James Byrd. Includes clips from their documentary aired on the ABC News program Nightline, as a segment of America in black and white.