Friday, November 8, 2019
| Shalom presenting a Movie "Marshall | |
| Location: | Clubhouse Ballroom |
| Time: | 8pm to 10pm |
| Description: | Your Shalom Club
Presents
The Movie "Marshall," Click Here for The Trailer
based on a true 1941 case, will be shown on Friday, November 8, 2019 at 8:00 in the ballroom. Thurgood Marshall, a young lawyer and future Supreme Court Justice, must defend a black chauffeur charged with sexual assault and attempted murder of his white socialite employer. Muzzled by a segregationist court, he partners with a courageous young Jewish lawyer, Samuel Friedman, to defend their client. The actual case does not take place in the South, as you might expect, but in a quiet wealthy Connecticut community.
The Connecticut socialite Eleanor Strubing, appeared on a highway in Westchester County, New York, soaked, battered, and frantic late one night in December, 1940. The story she told riveted the nation. She claimed her chauffeur had raped her four times, kidnapped her, forced her to write a ransom note for $5,000 and then thrown her off a bridge. The New York Times headlined the story, "Mrs. J.K. Strubing Is Kidnapped and Hurled Off Bridge by Butler." the day after it happened.
The only problem with Strubing's story: it was filled with inconsistencies. The accused, a 31-year-old man named Joseph Spell, had a different version of the events of that night. Fortunate for him, his claims of innocence had a friendly ear: that of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and its head lawyer, a 32-year-old from Baltimore named Thurgood Marshall.
This movie is free and is open to all residents. Bring your own snacks. A discussion, "fact or fiction", will follow the movie.
Bill Langweil
blangweil@aol.com
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