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Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart
Part of Say Brother.
04/16/1981
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- In the Matter of Levi Hart
- Program Number
1120
- 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).
- Duration
00:60:00
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Segregation
- Banks, Judge Richard L.
- Trials (Police misconduct)
- Discrimination in law enforcement
- Police brutality
- Hart, Levi
- Bourque, Richard
- Civil rights
- African American teenagers
- African American politicans
- Daughtry, Rev. Herbert
- Boston (Mass.). Police Dept.
- Bunte, Doris
- Graham, Saundra
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barbara Barrow-Murray (Producer)
- Rivera, George (Director)
- Deare, Beth (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Duval, Lynn (Intern)
- Bennett, Mark (Intern)
- Koppel, Tiit (Switcher)
- MacKnight, John (Videotape Recordist)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- Gibbs, Deborah (Assistant Unit Manager)
- Sullivan, John L. (Stage Manager)
- Strother, Darlene (Intern)
- Brennan, Susan (Audio)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Fairweather, Bill (Video)
- Wong, Evelyn (Production Assistant)
- Beres, Marc (Gaffer)
- Conroy, Lynn (Camera)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Director Program Segment)
- Plausse, John (Stage Manager)
- Buccheri, Ron (Switcher)
- Hutton, David (Videotape Recordist)
- Wareham, Skip (Camera)
- Macie, Roger (Video)
- Goldman, Elias (Video)
- Hill, Rebecca (Wardrobe)
- Deering, Jim (Videotape Recordist)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Director)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Jenkins, John (Audio)
- MacDonald, Greg (Camera)
- Mekuria, Salem (Production Secretary)
- Easterling, Michael (Production Manager)
- Wilson, Bob (Camera)
- Banks, Judy (Production Assistant)
- Barclay, Patrick (Intern)
- Williams-Moore, Evelyn (Casting)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart,” 04/16/1981, GBH Archives, accessed December 22, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B8EE1BCCA3D04B44A0EF7F305E81E830.
- MLA: “Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart.” 04/16/1981. GBH Archives. Web. December 22, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B8EE1BCCA3D04B44A0EF7F305E81E830>.
- APA: Say Brother; In the Matter of Levi Hart. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_B8EE1BCCA3D04B44A0EF7F305E81E830