Five Conversations About Violence
Work
- Date of Production
- 1984
- Duration
- Run time: 0:29:10
- Creators
- Appalshop, Inc (is producer)
- Headwaters (is producer)
- Contributors
- Williams, Robin (is musician)
- Williams, Linda (is musician)
- Howard, Lee (is interviewee)
- Rosenwald, Will (is interviewee)
- Taylor, Ben (is interviewee)
- Hall, Eula (is interviewee)
- Description
- Show explores violence from various perspectives. Interviewees include Lee Howard, descendent of James B. Howard, a participant in the Baker-Howard feud in Clay County, who discusses violence in the context of feuding families. Kindergarten teacher Will Rosenfeld discusses the impact of violent television shows on children in his classroom at Norton Elementary School in Norton, Virginia. Ben B. Taylor, sherrif of Letcher County, talks about his attempts to control drugs and associated violence. Doug Shole, counselor at the Wise County Courthouse, discusses dealing with violent adolescents. Eula Hall, director of the Mud Creek Clinic in Floyd County, Kentucky talks about poverty and violence associated with it.
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