by Joule Zelman Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun—which launches the Veracity: New Documentary Cinema series at Northwest Film Forum—is Travis Wilkerson’s journey into the disturbing history of his rural Alabaman family. Framing the history of his hometown, Dothan, within the context of the civil rights movement and contemporary black resistance, Wilkerson tracks down a secessionist great-aunt, visits Rosa Parks’s birthplace two hours away,
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun—which launches the Veracity: New Documentary Cinema series at Northwest Film Forum—is Travis Wilkerson’s journey into the disturbing history of his rural Alabaman family. Framing the history of his hometown, Dothan, within the context of the civil rights movement and contemporary black resistance, Wilkerson tracks down a secessionist great-aunt, visits Rosa Parks’s birthplace two hours away,