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A documentary about the city’s fiscal crisis of the 1970s, co-directed by the son of one of its saviors, wins the Library of Congress Lavine/Ken Burns Prize for Film.
He was a star witness in televised hearings in New York. He was then convicted of murder and spent decades in prison saying he’d been framed for speaking out.
THE FOUNDATION "We should be unfaithful to ourselves if we should ever lose sight of the danger to our liberties if anything partial or extraneous should infect the purity of our free, fair, virtuous, and independent elections." John Adams (1797) Fellow Patriots, on this day in 1959, Hawaii.