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Who Killed Vincent Chin? is a 1987 American documentary film produced and directed by Christine Choy and Renee Tajima-Peña that recounts the murder of Vincent Chin. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [2] It was later broadcast as part of the PBS series POV. [3]
Vincent Jen Chin (Chinese: 陳果仁; May 18, 1955 – June 23, 1982) was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was killed in a racially motivated assault [1] [2] [3] by two white men, Chrysler plant supervisor Ronald Ebens and his stepson, laid-off autoworker Michael Nitz. [4]
Vincent Who? is a documentary film that was released in 2009. It details the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin that occurred in Detroit, Michigan.. Chin was a 27-year-old Chinese-American who was beaten to death with a baseball bat by two Detroit autoworkers, who had mistakenly thought that he was Japanese and, in their minds, was responsible for the loss of jobs in the U.S. auto industry.
Two white autoworkers bludgeoned 27-year-old Chinese American Vincent Chin to death with a baseball bat during his bachelor party in Detroit in 1982, but his loved ones' cries for justice fell on ...
The landmark documentary explores the fight for justice for Vincent Chin, who went into a coma and died in 1982 after being beaten by two white autoworkers.
Reel Asian is providing the rare opportunity to see the Oscar-nominated 1987 documentary "Who Killed Vincent Chin?," the story of a Chinese-American man who was brutally beaten to death on the eve ...
Instead of taking over his family’s Chinese restaurant, Curtis Chin — who is not related to the man killed on June 23, 1982 — spent the next 30 years elevating Asian American voices, and recounting Vincent Chin’s story and the racism of 1980s Detroit.
Ronald Madis Ebens (born October 30, 1939) [1] is an American convicted killer. Ebens, with his stepson Michael Nitz as an accomplice, killed Vincent Chin, [2] a Chinese American man, on June 19, 1982 in a racially motivated assault.