Eugene Kane; in My Opinion; Shooting Shares Spotlight with Gun Violence at Home
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel › April 22, 2007
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Independent filmmaker Janet Fitch was worried that presidential candidate Barack Obama's appearance in Milwaukee last week would detract from the premiere of her latest project about gun violence.
A local theater was planning to show the new release in Fitch's educational series called "Guns, Grief and Grace in America" Monday night. Fitch, who has worked on the series for seven years, was understandably concerned that Obama's fund-raiser at the Milwaukee Theatre scheduled for that evening would cut into her audience.See the full content of this document
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Eugene Kane; in My Opinion; Shooting Shares Spotlight with Gun Violence at Home
"I knew some of our people were planning to see Obama," Fitch said Friday. "I figured we would lose some of the audience who wanted to go see him."
As it turned out, the big news that day wasn't Obama. It was a mass murder at Virginia Tec...See the full content of this document
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