Harry Lee Execution (Ep 3): Canfield Roots
This title is a part of the series Canfield Roots SeriesNuméro de catalogue: WRF003
Producteur: Windecker Road Films
Agences de production: Windecker Road Films
Sujet: Diversité culturelle, Études sociales, Études sociales canadiennes, Histoire, Histoire des noirs, Histoire du Canada
Langue: Anglais
Niveau scolaire: 6 - 8, 9 - 12, Post-secondaire, Adulte
Pays d'origine: Canada
Année du droit d’auteur: 2021
Durée: 23:38
On a cloudless February night in 1953, former Canfield resident Harry Lee was hung for murder in Hamilton, the last man to to be executed at that city’s notorious Barton Jail. Seventy years later, former residents of Canfield reflects on the impact of Lee’s hanging on the village community while Betty Ann Newman grapples with the memory of the man she called Uncle Harry. He was the son of a Black mother and a Spanish father.
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