Daniel

6:00 Patio Party | 6:30 Guest Speaker | 7:00 Film

Director: Sidney Lumet
Starring: Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse, Ed Asner

A ’60s graduate student (Timothy Hutton) recalls his parents (Mandy Patinkin, Lindsay Crouse), executed in the ’50s for selling atomic secrets. The film, directed by Sidney Lumet, is based on E. L. Doctorow’s novel inspired by the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage.

Guest Speakers: Robert & Ellen Meeropol with Film Historian Rick Winston

Robert Meeropol is the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In 1953, when he was six years old, the United States Government executed his parents for “conspiring to steal the secret of the atomic bomb. For over 40 years he has been a progressive activist, author and public speaker. In the 1970’s he and his brother, Michael, successfully sued the FBI and CIA to force the release of 300,000 previously secret documents about their parents. Robert has long been involved in anti-capital punishment activism, locally and internationally. He is interested in, and blogs about, issues of national security and civil liberties, and in understanding the connections between global warming, the evolution of human societies, and political activism.

Ellen Meeropol is the author of five novels (The Lost Women of Azalea Court, Her Sister’s Tattoo, Kinship of Clover, On Hurricane Island, and House Arrest) and the guest editor for the anthology, Dreams for a Broken World. Her work has been honored by the Sarton Women’s Prize, The Women’s National Book Association, and the Massachusetts Center for the Book.

Rick Winston is a Vermont-based film historian and co-founder of the Savoy Theater and Green Mountain Film Festival. As the festival’s longtime Programming Director, he led a series of interviews with prominent film critics and historians. He continues to teach and lecture on film history statewide.

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