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HZ:.:rs::i3 Ac'Jcn." F'.sia 11. Czsr.l-fflction
tt;r cf t.v i;hn F. Kennedy esssstlnatSon.
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"Z'.f j t'lTry," .t.!ch wss a mssttrpitc ef Ita
c:r.r3. Thti fllni, hewevsr, li a pretentious
rs s pUet Cf Junk. 2:23, 4:50, 7:10 & 9:33.
Z2. Zr. 1 $ Wdnesdy, Jan. 23.
"kin tha Territla, Part II." Chspst HSil Film
Frisnds. Tha conclusion f tha Sergsl
CUtntU!n iRsznlf.cent tplc. Music by
Frc:x:s. Fr!f i C:CD, Etturdsy et 11:33 In
Czrrc.S f-X.Sa aS3
"Cush a Ccrctcui Kldl Llka Ma." Alternative
Cinema. Frencc'.s Truffaut's black comedy
ctsut a fsm&!a iurCartr. Good rtvlews from
t:a fliw Ycrk cf.Urs. Friday et 7, Ssturday at
2, 4:23, 7 a :S3. $1.53.
Frta Flizks: Frldsy, "The Gold Rush."
Fcrf.r-s tha crsstzst Chaplin f'.Sm set In tha
:ys cf tha KSor,i:ka Csld Rush. Saturday,
"Thi CIrla." This Cv.ad!sh Import dsala with
St:;s2si cn a tour cf "LvsSstrsta" who
Z?zZ:iz"y Czzsmr tht play working In thslr
partcncl lives. Sunday, ' "Repulsion."
Ccnfus-td by her faallnsa for man, a clrl Is
C f. izn to tha brink cf Insanity by her fears and
f:r.i.is:3s. All flicks ct 6:23 & 9 In the Great
Ht'.l.
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Jshsnn Etrausa'a "Dia Fledarmaua." UNC
Cpera Th.:-rs. CIractad by UNC music
prefssssr, Or. V."."cn lessen. Friday and
CztiTizy t 8 In rsmcHal HsII. Tickets, $2,
era now cn es!a et tha music department In
i;::i l';:i end will ba available at the door
chsrt'y t store tha performance.
Woody A"sn's "Flay It Again, Sam." New
Thtre, Dufhsrn. Friday and Saturday at 8.
Fcrrc::rr" zr. cell 223-341 4. Tickets, $1 .50,
ers t'.io tvz'Azi'.i et tha door.
Auditions for Laboratory Theatre's
production of "Confsasiona cf a Femaia
Disorder" by Susan teller will be held 13
Saturday In Graham .'amoiiai Loun;a. Scripl
la from tha Eu;ne O'NsHI Foundation. Us.
f.".:"3r w"I direct
The tAusle Llan." VKaga Dinner Theatre,
Ralalgh. Difet at 7, curtain et 8:33. Call 727
7771 for reservations. r,";ht!y except
Monday.
"Romeo and Ju'.Ist." Performed by the
Oxford and Cambridge Shakespeare
Company. Today et 2 and 8 In Stewart
Theatre, Rslalsh.
Concerts
Stafford Wing, tenor, accompanied by
pianist Thomas Varburnton. The Durham
Chamber Arts Society. Saturday at 8:15 In
East Duke Music Room. SSngla admissions at
the door.
John Hammond, blues ertlsL Today -through
Saturday at 7:20 & 10:33 at the Pier,
popular listening room, Cameron Village
Subway, Raleigh.
Tha Earl Scrubs Revue. Friday at 8 in
Memorial Auditorium, Raleigh.
Performance by tha H"!mi Garrard Dance
Company Tuesday and Wednesday, Jan. 22 &
23, at 8 In Stewart Theatre, Raleigh. Features
mixed media, pure dance movements and a
computerized lighting system. Tickets
available from the Stewart Theatre Box
Office, 737-31 C5.
nightlife
Town Hall. Tonight, Rockfish. Friday &
Saturday, Heather. Music at 9.
Cat's Cradle. Tonight, Arrogance. Flrday &
Saturday, Miles Ahead, a Jazz group.
Radio
WDBS, 107.1 FM stereo. 10 em. to 1 p.m.:
"Daily Concert"; J olivet, lozart, Dellbes,
Falla, Chopin, Pachelbsl. 6 p.m.
"Crosswords"; The Greet Atlantic Radio
Conspiracy," group marriage Is tonlghfa
subject. 6:30 p.m.: "Spotlight"; "Full House,"
by Fairport Convention. Midnight: Album
track, "Cstta Midler," by Batta Midler.
WDNC, 620 AUI and 1C5.1 FM. CCS Radio
Mystery Theatre: "You Can Die Again,"
starring Richard Mulligan and Marian Seldas,
with E.G. Marshall as host Successful, but
unhappy, a man tries to relive his Ufa in a
different way with tragic results. Tonight at
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Early Ingres drawings on loan from the
Baltimore Art Museum. Ackland Art Museum
smell gallery. Claude Lorraln drawings on
loan from Norton Simon, Inc. Museum of Art,
main gallery. Through Sunday, Jan. 27.
Preview showings of Paul A. Clifford Pre
Columbian Art Collection. Duke University
Museum of Art 9-5 Tuesday through Friday,
2-5 Saturday and Sunday. Through
Thursday, Jan. 31.
Paintings and sculptures by 7 .UNC
graduate students on display through
January at the Wesley Foundation, 214
Pittsboro St.
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I have seen few films in my life that have such an
interesting effect on audiences as Executive Action. It
connects with the half-buried memories of an entire
national conciousness with frightening and
disconcerting results. It is unfortunate that so
remarkable a film could hot be a really good one; still,
it is totally engrossing.
The film's stated purpose is to show how the
assassination of President Kennedy 10 years ago could
have been the doings of a conspiracy instead of the
work of a single crazed gunman.
Already the makers of the film are on shaky
ground is it possible to turn such a serious subject
into a mere thriller? If they wanted to suggest an
explanation for the many loose ends of the official
investigation, why not make a documentary?
But would that have done any good? Would very
many movie-goers have been interested in a factual
film full of ballistic reports and witnesses testimonies? .
If Edward Lewis, the producer and Mark Lane, who
provided the story, wanted to shock their audiences
into thinking about a subject that they obviously don't
care to think about, they made the right decision.
People who have half-listened to conspiracy stories for
years, but never bothered to look into the subject, may
very well be forced to face the issue when they see this
film.
The movie uses a combination of old footage of
Kennedy during the last month before his death,
including his trip to Dallas, and newly filmed action
dealing with the work of the conspirators.
When people first come into the theater. I don't
think they are expecting much after all, it's only a
movie. But I had the feeling ths.t a kind of shock crept
slowly over them as the film moved on.
It's astonishing to see history rewritten, as it were,
and by the time the title "November 22" came over the
screen it seemed impossible that they were actually
going to do it. The use of old footage of the
assassination, employed masterfully here, envokes
memories since most of us have seen the film before.
The most stunning thing about the film is that it is so
completely believable. In 1S63, most Americans would
have balked at the idea cf a conspiracy that sort of
thing doesn't happen here and indeed the
conspirators in the film say that they are counting on
that.
But now in 1973 we've seen some of the dark
possibilities that American society is capable of
allowing. With a government so entangled that nobody
knows what anybody else is doing, it's easy to believe
that such a thing could have happened.
The content of the film is extremely didactic, to the
point where some of the dialogue is obviously put in for
the sole purpose of reeling off facts for the benefit
of the audience. I for one was not bothered by this
because I found the material fascinating.
Incidentally, a little reading will show that most of
the film is based upon recorded facts, such as the two
men who identify themselves as Secret Service men to
the police even though the Service later stated that they
had no agents in the area. When things like this came
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by Mark Dearmon
Feature Writer
May 10, 1929:
Prohibition is still in full swing. The Depression is five months away. Hitler is still
unknown to the world. And scandal hits the UNC campus.
The source of the scandal is the Yellow Journal, a newspaper published three
times a year by Sigma Upsilon, a campus literary fraternity. The first issue was
published in 1924.
In previous issues, the members of Sigma Upsilon were content to poke fun at
some prominent members of the UNC community.
Some comments as "Archie Patterson had his er-er-a adenoids removed week
before last" and "Ikey Bellamy wishes to announce that he will spend next week end
in Raleigh, uh, uh, as usual" filled the six page publication.
Copies of the last Journal were sold on May 10, 1929, during the UNC-Virginia
baseball game on campus. Members of Sigma Upsilon could be seen hawking the
bright yellow, tabloid-sized papers in the stadium. -
Little did the Journal staff realize the extent of their clairvoyant powers when
they printed "Extinct After This Issue" as one of the headings. Headlines such as
"Enraged Spouse Finds Local Poet in Love Nest" disturbed many University
officials, putting the campus up in arms.
Walter Spearman, 1929 Daily Tar Heel editor and well-known campus leader
(now UNC journalism professor), was the target of some of the "Hayshaker"
exaggerations:
"Walter Spearman tried to thrust himself, unasked and unwelcomed (as usual)
before the public eye. Spearman refused to write any more editorials until it was
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up in the film, I would hear people turn to their
companions and ask, "Did that really happen?" For
the most part they did.
1 was particularly struck by the sudden breakdown
of telephones in Washington at the time of the
assassination, the incredible shoddiness of the Dallas
department's investigation and the film showing
Kennedy being thrown backwards by a bullet that
supposedly hit him from behind. In fact, if there is
anything unbelievable about the film it is that anyone
could ever have been convinced of Oswald's guilt.
Of course, it's easy to look back and say this now.
Executive Ac tion should not be taken as the truth by
anyone, though hopefully it might lead people to look
into the evidence more closely and decide for
themselves.
The movie has lots of artistic problems. David
Miller's direction of the new sequences is uninspired, as
is the playing of many of the principles. The editors
have done a fine job mixing old and new footage, but
the effect they create is damaged by the poor,
unrealistic photography used in the new sequences. It's
as if the subject matter is so intrinsically interesting
that nobody could botch it up.
So, I can understand those people who call it a bad
movie, even though I wouldn't go so far as to call it
that. My reaction to it was subjective, as will be the
reactions of most people who see it, I suspect.
But whatever it is, Executive Action is well worth
seeing and will probably be of greater interest to people
than many better movies.
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officially recognized that he is the only man ever to be in line for three major campus
offices."
In spring 1928, Spearman had the choice of running for editor of the Tar Heel.
president of the YMCA or editor of the Yackety Yack.
Another article in the Journal that got much attention was "Fountain Pen Girls
Filled With Gratitude," the tale of two enterprising young girls who sold fountain
pens in front of a local store. The story implied that the girls were selling more than
fountain pens.
"Their success was little less than astounding! Many of their customers have since
said that they received complete satisfaction."
The Journal also made other sexual innuendos:
"George E suddenly got his water cut off at the hen house after several of the
girls found out that his intentions were purely physical."
Then, on May 11, 19 students were called before the student council and
suspended for their association with the Journal.
During the next week, 1 1 of the accused were reinstated. The remaining eight
were suspended for the rest of the semester.
Among the suspended students were Glenn Holder, editor-elect of the Daily Tar
Heel, and John Mebane, editor of the campus literary magazine. In the May 1 4 issue
of the DTH, letters of apology appeared on the front page from Mebane, and
Holder. J . ;M ,
Holder wrote:
"To the Student Body of the University of North Carolina;
"I have offended the students and faculty of the University in certain respects, and
I accept full responsibility.
"The Yellow Journal was assembled hastily and without consideration of the
importance of several articles, which never should have been published under any
conditions, even in a Yellow Journal.
"I am heartily ashamed of my connection with it."
Earlier in the year, members of Sigma Upsilon were warned not to print
scandalous material in their Journal. The flagrant disobeying of this order made the
consequences even worse.
Spearman was asked to continue as DTH editor for the remainder of the semester
as a result of Holder's suspension. In a 1929 editorial, Spearman addressed himself
to the problem of the Yellow Journal:
"When a serious mistake has been made such as the inclusion of certain stories
in the Journal some attempt must be made to correct the mistake, to deal with its
perpetrators, and to prevent the recurrence of the same blunder. We trust, however,
that it will be remembered that college is, after all, a sort of laboratory in which
students are experimenting before going out into the business of living and that
'mistakes even foolish and unpleasant mistakes are not capital crimes.
"A mistake has been made. Now let it be remedied as quietly and effectively as
possible."
In a recent interview, Spearman, now a UNC journalism professor, recalled the
Yellow Journal of 1929. He still condemned the Journal attack of some students
and the printing of certain scandalous stories.
But, he said, "A lot of it was just pure fun. A lot of people were asking for what
they got."
If a publication of this type were to appear on campus today, he said, it would
hardly be noticed.
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