Two Towns of Jasper
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2003
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In 1998, three white men in Jasper, Texas, chained a black man named James Byrd, Jr. to a pick-up truck and dragged him to his death. The small town was forever altered, and the nation woke up to the horror of a modern-day lynching. Two film crewsóone black and one whiteósimultaneously documented the aftermath of the murder by interviewing townspeople and following the subsequent trials of the men charged with the crime. The result is Two Towns of Jasper, an explicit and troubling portrait of race in America that asks how and why a crime like this could have occurred.
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