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Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart; Henry F. Owens, III, comments on the death of Levi Hart
Part of Say Brother.
04/23/1981
This clip is an except from the program which investigates the events the night Levi Hart, a 14-year-old African American youth from Roxbury, Mass., was killed in a police chase. (Hart, and two other Roxbury youths had stolen and car. When the officers caught up to them, Hart was shot, arguably by Richard Bourque in an act of police brutality.) Say Brother, in a documentary-style program, interviews Andrea Swores (a teacher of Hart's), Jean Hart (Levi Hart's mother), Judge Richard L. Banks (who presided over the inquest), Dr. Luke G. Tedeschi (who performed the second autopsy on Hart's body), Henry F. Owens, III (the Hart family lawyer), and attorney Frank J. McGee (who represented police officer Richard Bourque in the lawsuit that followed). Program features the additional commentary of state representative Doris Bunte and Saundra Graham, the comments of the Chairman of the National Black United Front Rev. Herbert Daughtry, and dramatic reenactments of the morning Hart was killed and of three testimonials from the legal transcript of the initial inquest investigating the shooting (those of eyewitness Harcourt Lewis, Roxbury youth Darrius Williams, and Boston police officer Richard Bourque). Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murphy. Directed by George Rivera.
License Clip
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- In the Matter of Levi Hart
- Program Number
1120
- Title
Henry F. Owens, III, comments on the death of Levi Hart
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program investigates the events the night Levi Hart, a 14-year-old African American youth from Roxbury, Mass., was killed in a police chase. (Hart, and two other Roxbury youths had stolen a car. When the officers caught up to them, Hart was shot, arguably by Richard Bourque in an act of police brutality.) Say Brother, in a documentary-style program, interviews Andrea Swores (a teacher of Hart's), Jean Hart (Levi Hart's mother), Judge Richard L. Banks (who presided over the inquest), Dr. Luke G. Tedeschi (who performed the second autopsy on Hart's body), Henry F. Owens, III (the Hart family lawyer), and attorney Frank J. McGee (who represented police officer Richard Bourque in the lawsuit that followed). Program features the additional commentary of state representative Doris Bunte and Saundra Graham, the comments of the Chairman of the National Black United Front Rev. Herbert Daughtry, and dramatic reenactments of the morning Hart was killed and of three testimonials from the legal transcript of the initial inquest investigating the shooting (those of eyewitness Harcourt Lewis, Roxbury youth Darrius Williams, and Boston police officer Richard Bourque).
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Civil rights
- Boston (Mass.). Police Dept.
- Graham, Saundra
- African American politicans
- Bourque, Richard
- Bunte, Doris
- Police brutality
- Banks, Judge Richard L.
- Hart, Levi
- Trials (Police misconduct)
- Discrimination in law enforcement
- Daughtry, Rev. Herbert
- African American teenagers
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Deare, Beth (Associate Producer)
- Rivera, George (Director)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Producer)
- Contributors
- Hill, Rebecca (Make Up)
- Hutton, David (Videotape Recordist)
- Williams-Moore, Evelyn (Casting)
- Banks, Judy (Production Assistant)
- Buccheri, Ron (Switcher)
- Sullivan, John L. (Stage Manager)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Deering, Jim (Videotape Recordist)
- Conroy, Lynn (Camera)
- Easterling, Michael (Production Manager)
- Macie, Roger (Video)
- Bennett, Mark (Intern)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Duval, Lynn (Intern)
- MacDonald, Greg (Camera)
- Wong, Evelyn (Production Assistant)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Director Program Segment)
- Barclay, Patrick (Intern)
- Beres, Marc (Gaffer)
- MacKnight, John (Videotape Recordist)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Director)
- Wareham, Skip (Camera)
- Plausse, John (Stage Manager)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- Fairweather, Bill (Video)
- Brennan, Susan (Audio)
- Gibbs, Deborah (Assistant Unit Manager)
- Jenkins, John (Audio)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Wilson, Bob (Camera)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Strother, Darlene (Intern)
- Mekuria, Salem (Production Secretary)
- Goldman, Elias (Video)
- Koppel, Tiit (Switcher)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart; Henry F. Owens, III, comments on the death of Levi Hart,” 04/23/1981, GBH Archives, accessed April 19, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7EB66DB747C74BD5B7C81B320DE048E8.
- MLA: “Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart; Henry F. Owens, III, comments on the death of Levi Hart.” 04/23/1981. GBH Archives. Web. April 19, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7EB66DB747C74BD5B7C81B320DE048E8>.
- APA: Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart; Henry F. Owens, III, comments on the death of Levi Hart. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_7EB66DB747C74BD5B7C81B320DE048E8