Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder (1989)
Directed by Dick Lowry
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Synopsis by Sandra Brennan
The controversial case of a black man killed in Howard Beach, a working-class all white neighborhood of Queens, NY provides the basis of this docudrama. Much of the story centers around the attempts of Joe Hynes, the state prosecutor to bring the case to trial.
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blue-collar, community, death, group, investigation, justice, killing, murder, prosecutor, trial [courtroom], beach