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My Fugitive w/Nina Gilden Seavey
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Length:
61 minutes
Released:
Apr 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
During the Vietnam War, a student protest at Washington University in St. Louis erupted into violence, with a campus ROTC building being burned down. A student named Howard Mechanic was accused of the crime, and when he was sentenced to federal prison... he vanished. He had been represented by civil rights attorney Louis Gilden, and he and his daughter Nina obsessed over Mechanic's whereabouts for years.
Now an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founding director of Washington U.'s Documentary Center, Nina Gilden Seavey joins us to tell the story of her ten year search for Howard Mechanic, the much larger story about government surveillance she uncovered, and how her 8-episode podcast that tells the story, My Fugitive, is ready to be made into a movie.
Now an award-winning documentary filmmaker and founding director of Washington U.'s Documentary Center, Nina Gilden Seavey joins us to tell the story of her ten year search for Howard Mechanic, the much larger story about government surveillance she uncovered, and how her 8-episode podcast that tells the story, My Fugitive, is ready to be made into a movie.
Released:
Apr 27, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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