100 years since tragic blaze killed 146 garment workers
Triangle Fire on PBS’s “American Experience”: compelling documentary marred by liberal perspective
By Charles Bogle
| Dateline: 12 March 2011 • THIS IS A REPOST
Directed by Jamila Wignot, written by Mark Zwonitzer
March 25 marks the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire in New York City’s Greenwich Village, which took the lives of 146 workers, 122 of whom were women and the children some as young as thirteen who worked beside them.
On February 28, the PBS “American Experience” series commemorated this workplace tragedy by airing Triangle Fire. Producer-director Jamila Wignot (director and/or producer of other “American Experience” episodes, including
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