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Jasper, Texas is a 2003 American made-for-television drama film directed by Jeffrey W. Byrd.The teleplay by Jonathan Estrin is based on a true story and focuses on the aftermath of a crime in which three white men from the small town of Jasper, Texas, killed African American James Byrd Jr. by dragging him behind their pickup truck.
The same year, the city of Jasper named a local park the "James Byrd Jr. Memorial Park" in his honor. [58] In 2003, a movie about the crime, titled Jasper, Texas, was produced and aired on Showtime. The same year, a documentary titled Two Towns of Jasper, made by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow, premiered on PBS's P.O.V. series. [62]
Whitney Dow, born in 1961, is a documentary filmmaker, producer, and director. [1] He is best known for Two Towns of Jasper (co-directed by Marco Williams), a film about the murder of a black man committed by three white men in Jasper, Texas, which received a George Foster Peabody Award [2] and an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award. [3]
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Jeffrey W. Byrd is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Once a protégé of Spike Lee, Byrd started his film career by working on several of Lee's films [1] including Mo' Better Blues, Malcolm X and Jungle Fever. [2]
Barry's most popular television role was that of Jasper Fant in the epic Westerns Lonesome Dove and its sequel Return to Lonesome Dove in 1993, which were partly set in his native Texas. Moving on to film, Barry accepted supporting roles in Mask , The Legend of Billie Jean , and as Wolfman in Top Gun .
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