The Killing of America Page #2

Synopsis: A documentary of the decline of America. It features a lot a great footage (most exclusive to this film) from race riots to serial killers and much-much more.
 
IMDB:
7.7
R
Year:
1981
90 min
120 Views


Government experts

say in audio technology,

that a second killer,

has fired a shot from behind the fence.

The controversy is

still working until today.

We want our freedom.

We like it here,

and we want it now!

Martin Luther King, tried

to cure the disease. racial hatred

And received the Nobel Prize

for encouraging violent people ...

.. to stop the violence, but

the response was the increase in violence.

Shortly after taking this picture,

On April 4, 1968 ...

Dr. ... was. Killed King.

On the balcony of the motel

in Memphis by James Earl Ray.

Escaped from prison.

In 1979, a government research

inferred that he was paid to do that.

The perpetrators were two whites

who hated blacks.

The assassination of Martin Luther King,

escalated riots in 125 cities.

The police had sought help from

45,000 soldiers.

The government moisture

a war against his own people.

Then a new line of battle.

Due to the hatred of the Vietnam War.

We want protection of the

employees and students.

Arsonists shoot down

and against anyone with a ...

... Molotov cocktail in Chicago.

University of Kent

May 4, 1970.

I will represent the city more

Everyone has ever done ...

Because yes, the man

works for a living,

He pays his taxes and

is constantly ignored ...

.. except the day of the elections.

Ladies and gentlemen, the future

U.S. president.

The Honorable George Wallace.

George Wallace had a big

chance to beat Richard Nixon

.. In the primaries in Maryland.

May 15, 1972.

This is the man who shot.

Arthur Bremer, 22.

An outcast from Milwaukee.

Four times wounded.

Wallace survives.

But is in a wheelchair

for the rest of his life.

Now there is no

chance of being elected.

Before the Wallace campaign followed ...

Bremer had ... Nixon followed.

Unbelievable ...

... The results of the election to be

decided by presidential assassins.

Robert Kennedy came to

for young and old.

Black and white.

Students and employees.

He tried to call a stop

for the violence that had begun ...

.. with the death of his brother.

But during a speech

in this Los Angeles ...

... A killer stalking him.

I thought he was a prince, a

direct descendant and heir ...

... President Kennedy.

I wanted him to win.

When I saw him. It was

very exciting for me.

I saw him that night at the Ambassador Hotel,

I thought I saw a saint.

Thank you, thank you very much everyone.

I'm going to Chicago to try to win there.

It is June 4, 1968.

He has the first round

beating California.

After his speech,

he leaves the crowd.

Then he comes to a door

overlooking the kitchen, where a ...

Palestinian fanatic waiting for him ...

with a gun.

He received three bullets in the back.

Plus a shot

behind the ear.

Although he lost a lot of blood

: he asks

Is everyone all right?

The killer Sirhan Sirhan.

An employee at the horse racing

in Los Angeles.

Every morning when I wake up

I hope it's been alive.

I would not be here.

Is there a doctor, a doctor?

Can he come here soon, please.

Finally an ambulance arrived.

But Robert Kennedy died in hospital.

I wanted coffee.

That's what I was looking for

and wild.

And I liked it.

You found it in the kitchen?

Where I do not know,

I can not remember.

I can not remember. Only

that there was a beaker ...

Great?

- Exactly.

And a girl too.

I can not remember

what happened next.

You do not remember anything?

- I do not remember everything.

You remember anything?

There was a lot of commotion.

I can not remember.

On May 18 last year,

you wrote in your room ...

Letters. Letters of a maniac.

- Letters of Sirhan Sirhan.

Yes, but now I write

the letters were not, I swear.

I'm not perfect.

But I'm not crazy.

If you had 3 wishes.

What would they be?

The first was ...

... that Senator Kennedy lived.

I hope every day.

The second ...

.. Let there be peace

in the Middle East.

That's all.

Robert Kennedy was assassinated as his brother,

slain by the bullets of an assassin.

The killings in North America.

A few weeks after the

assassination of President Kennedy ...

The murder rate had ...

an upward curve.

Tripled in just 10 years.

He continued

until today.

There appeared a new

kind of killer.

Not looking for money or sex or revenge.

It was a new kind of murder.

The senseless murder

random strangers.

The first major incident

a gunman took place in 1966 ...

In this quiet

University of Texas campus.

The shooter was a student

and fired from this tower.

Where you throughout the city

Austin can see.

Charles Whitman, age 25 years.

Former Marine and an expert marksman.

Like most of the snipers ...

.. were white, middle class, good

students and had never committed a crime.

One morning he went

to the top floor.

With lots of food

and ammunition.

And all these weapons.

Whitman barriceerde the door ...

And used a pulley to all

get ... his material on the roof

and then on the side

to explain ... of the roof

And began randomly ...

shoot on people.

The first victims were

students around campus.

Who were talking

or went to school.

Whitman took aim when

towards town.

Random pedestrian

on the street ...

Even a man

in a salon.

This is an emergency warning

Far away from the university.

There is a lot of traffic in the area.

They shot a child on a

bicycle and is seriously injured.

A policeman is shot.

Students try friends

to rescue injured.

But some were already dead.

In the afternoon, 16 people

were already dead ...

.. and more than 30 seriously injured.

Finally reached three agents

the top of the tower.

The sniper was in this position.

The police came

along the back.

He turned this way ...

Police fired on his chest,

at this place with six bullets.

A second shot with a shotgun

hit him here.

The sniper was here.

In this area here.

The police discovered that the

day before ...

Whitman went to this apartment

where he killed his mother with a knife.

Then he went home and wrote ...

"I just killed my mother.

If there is a heaven,

she is there.

If no,

then she's out of her misery. "

Then he went to his bedroom

and killed his wife ...

... who was sleeping in bed.

But did not die with her,

but first shot down 50 strangers.

In 5 years.

the snipers are part of

been American life.

They were usually good students.

With a future.

Often in high school.

What happened is a lesson

all of us.

The lesson to be learned, now

Is something that we need.

The law is voted

in Congress ...

.. that will ensure

to discourage people ...

.. to buy firearms.

The new law prevents only just

children do not buy weapons through the mail.

Violence, made the sale of weaponry

was quadrupled in the last 10 years.

In 1970 ..

... Increased the number of private gun owners

in America, to 100 million.

Japan, England and East Germany

together is less than one million.

Americans now have more

weapons than the police and the army together.

More than 100 million firearms in

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Leonard Schrader

Leonard Schrader (November 30, 1943 – November 2, 2006) was an American screenwriter and director, most notable for his ability to write Japanese language films and for his many collaborations with his brother, Paul Schrader. He earned an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay he wrote for the film Kiss of the Spider Woman. more…

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