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Winter Soldier
Thursday, January 19, 7:00 PM, Princeton Public Library Community Room

SPEAKERS:
Kenneth J. Campbell, who testified in Winter Soldier, is Associate Professor of Political Science & International Relations and Director of the International Relations Program at the University of Delaware. As a Marine, he served with distinction in the Vietnam war in 1968-69, and was awarded the Purple Heart and the Navy Achievement Medal. He received an honorable discharge from the Marines in 1970 and soon after joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War.

Jan Berry served in the Vietnam War and was a panel moderator at the Winter Soldier Investigation, and is now an author, poet and independent journalist in New Jersey.

Winter Soldier (Winterfilm Collective, USA, 1971, 95 min.) chronicles the extraordinary Winter Soldier Investigation conducted by Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW) in Detroit during the winter of 1971. The Winterfilm Collective shot footage of more than 125 Vietnam veterans (including a very young John Kerry) that gave eyewitness testimony to war crimes and atrocities they either participated in or witnessed. Virtually unreported by the media, Winter Soldier is the only record of this historic turning point in American history. Shown at the Cannes and Berlin Film Festivals and lauded throughout Europe, it only opened briefly in Manhattan, and was broadcast for a single showing on New York’s WNET. Thirty-five years later, the veterans’ courage in testifying and their desire to prevent further atrocities and regain their own humanity makes Winter Soldier an unforgettable experience. The recent abuses of prisoners of Abu Ghraib, and in Afghanistan and at Guantanamo have sometimes been reported as unprecedented. The voices of the veterans in Winter Soldier attest that they were not.
This film contains many explicit and disturbing descriptions of war crimes and atrocities and is meant for a mature audience

Weapons of Mass Deception Thursday, February 9, 7:00 PM, Princeton Public Library Community Room SPEAKER: Producer and Director Danny Schechter

Danny Schechter, Producer and Director, at the Federal Communications Commission

Mr. Schechter’s film is an outspoken assessment of how Pentagon propoganda and media complicity misled the American people about the war in Iraq and promoted the belief that Iraq harbored weapons of mass destruction. A Nieman Fellow in Journalism at Harvard University, and radio news director turned CNN and Emmy Award-winning ABC News Producer, he is now an independent investigative journalist, filmmaker and author. Danny Schechter is not afraid to take on his own industry. WMD busts through so-called “objective reporting” to challenge media complicity with the government and its duplicity in presenting the Iraq War the way it did. This is a hard-hitting, yet personal film that looks at the television war and asks why the American audience lapped it up and how the Pentagon helped shape media coverage.