McKinley Foundation recently added a theater for the purpose of showing films that address important issues facing our community and society as a whole. Tonight’s Movie at McKinley is quite timely, as it addresses the topics of free speech and the importance of a free press. Here’s the movie synopsis, if you’re not familiar:
In the mid-1950’s Edward R. Murrow and his producer, Fred Friendly, help bring an end to the tyranny of the blacklist and the House Un-American Activities Committee’s anti-Communist hearings. With the platform provided by his CBS News program “See It Now,” Murrow challenges Joseph McCarthy on his claims that hundreds of avowed Communists are working covertly as Soviet spies in the U.S. government, among other allegations, and that they have the power to destroy lives and careers.
The movie begins at 7 p.m. (doors open at 6:30), and you are encouraged to stay after for a post-film discussion facilitated by Dr. Janice M Collins, Assistant Professor of Journalism in the College of Media.
McKinley Foundation is located at 809 S. Fifth at the corner of Daniel in Campustown.