A debut showing of a Civil War documentary film, War in the ’60s, will take place 1:30-3:30 p.m. May 11 in Little Rock’s Ron Robinson Theater, 100 River Market Ave., the Arkansas Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission announced.
The Arkansas Educational Television Network will telecast the film at 7 p.m. May 15 with repeats scheduled for June and July, according to a Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission news release. The commission and the Central Arkansas Library System are sponsoring the showing at the Ron Robinson Theater.
The film is by Jack Hill, a long-time broadcast journalist with KAIT-TV in Jonesboro and founder of TeleVision for Arkansas, where he produced dozens of documentary films, many dealing with the state’s history and culture. Hill died in 2012 while working on the film with Dale Carpenter, the release said.
“Arkansas was a strange linchpin in the Trans-Mississippi Civil War, controlling access to the Missouri and the Indian Territory and the abundant resources west of the Mississippi River,” Commission Chairman Tom Dupree said in the news release. “The late Jack Hill, an award-winning journalist and documentarian, explored the events that took place in the increasingly savage fighting in Arkansas, as well as the people who experienced it, in War in the ’60s.”
More information on the film’s debut and other sesquicentennial activities in Arkansas is available at arkansascivilwar150.com/events.
Arkansas, Pages 11 on 04/25/2014