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The story of Clarence Fitch, whose extraordinary life is representative of a generation of African-American men who came of age during the Vietnam War and subsequent drug and AIDS epidemics.

Documentary, 1998   Length: 50 minutes   Director: Tami Gold   Distribution:   Third World Newsreel   545 Eighth Avenue, 10th Floor   New York, NY 10018   212-947-9277 ext. 308   Fax: 212-594-6417 Premiere: Sunday, June 14, 1998 11pm, on Thirteen/WNET. (Repeats: Tuesday night, June 16, 1998 9pm and 12:30am.)

This intimate documentary investigates many of the taboos surrounding the Vietnam War. The kinds of struggles that erupted in the sixties and seventies are explored through the magnified view of the life of one man, a Black veteran, Clarence Fitch. Gracefully, this video takes on the complexities of Fitch's rich life by looking at the interracial relations in his family, as well as issues such as the segregation that occurred between black and white U.S. troops serving in Vietnam. The tape reveals a kind of elaborate web of cause and effect where one problem leads to others; for example, the horrors of the war that Fitch witnessed may have led him to use drugs to blur those memories. But in reaction to those atrocities, Fitch saw the oppression of the Vietnamese people as being related to his own situation in the States and he began an earnest battle for peace. This tape is an elegant and moving memorial, an homage to the deceased Fitch. Though he is only a memory, he is made present by the recounting of his incredible life by family and friends. From union labor organizing to anti-war protesting, Fitch struggled for the equality of all peoples.
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