Public Broadcasting films soldiers' life
A ninety-year-old judgment
against Henry Flipper, the first
black West Point graduate, may
be cleared by a Channel 12
production to be shown
nationally over the Public
Broadcasting Service (PBS).
The Trial of Henry Flipper,
a dramatized documentary of
his life, is being filmed this
week at Lincoln Air Park.
Flipper graduated from West
Point in 1877, but spent only
four years in the Army.
Following a court martial
finding him guilty of conduct
unbecoming an officer, Flipper
tried in vain to clear himself of
the judgment until his death in
1940.
ALL THE DIALOGUE is
based on transcripts of the
court martial and the writings
of Flipper, associate producer
Arthur Cromwell said. No
attempt is made to show
Flipper's innocence, he said,
because the evidence speaks for
itself.
The series of three half-hour
shows is a spin-off of Black
Frontier, an ETV
documentary, partly filmed in
Lincoln, about the role of the
black in the 19th Century
West. Cromwell said he
uncovered Flipper's story while
doing research for Black
Frontier.
Lt. Flipper was either born
too soon or too late,"
Cromwell said. He was born a
slave, but became educated
through a reconstruction
program. He graduated from
West Point and set out with the
belief his education would
overcome racial barriers and
allow him to be accepted.
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Expanding its format, Jazz and Java will appear on Fridays
and Sundays for the remainder of the school year. Smoke
Stack Lightning will appear On Friday, March 5 at 3:30 p.m.
in the south crib, and Granny's Truck Stop will perform on
Sunday, March 7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union south
crib. Probably the most important thing to remember about
Jazz and Java is that its FREE.
"Portraits in Jazz," presented by Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia,
University professional music fraternity for men, will make its
13th annual appearance on Friday, March 5, at 8 p.m. in
Kimball Recital Hall.
This year's concert will feature iazz trombonist "Buddy"
Baker with Prof. Dennis Schneider and the University Lab Band.
Baker has toured with such jazz greats as Stan Kenton and
Woody Herman. He is now a professor of brass and theory at
the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley.
If you dig jazz at all, this should be a must on your agenda
this weekend, especially with tickets so reasonably priced,
only $2.
Moving on to theater, Celebration, the next production of
Howell Theater, will be opening in about a week (March 1 2)
and it might be wise to start buying tickets.
Also opening the 1 2th is the Lincoln Community Playhouse
production of Under the Yum Yum Tree.
Anyone who is interested in acting and singing might pay
heed to this, tryouts for Song For A Ibert, written and directed
by Paul Baker will be March 17, 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. and
March 18 at 3:30 p.m. on the third floor of the Wesley
Founuation (Hungry Id).
Baker needs five men and three women, plus a female
blues singer along the line of Joplin." You might also be
interested to know that the shew will feature the Red, White
and Blues Band.
Renaissance music will be featured at the University School
of Music Thursday in a lecture by a noted musicologist from
the Netherlands at 3:30 p.m. and a concert at 8 p.m .
Professor Albert Dunning will speak in the Sheldon Galiery
Auditorium on "Music as a Political Instrument During the
Renaissance."
. The concert, performed by the Musica Antiqua Players, will
also be in the Sheldon Gallery Auditorium.
The concert and the lecture are open to the public, and
again there is no admission price.
La Boheme, Puccini's popular four-act opera, will be
broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera House, Saturday,
larch 6, at 1 p.m. over KRNU radio (90.3 mc).
Northern reconstruction ardor
faded, taking with it the
opportunities for Flipper to
put his education to use,
Cromwell said. And of all the
careers for an educated black
man of the '70s to find
acceptance, in, he said, the
military was perhaps the worst,
because of the competition,
jealousy and hatred
characterizing the relations
among the promotion-hungry
officers.
When Lt. Flipper came to
Ft. Davis, Texas, he met his
nemesis in the aptly named
Col. Shafter, a true heavy, a
300-pound all-around bigot
who hated everything Flipper
represented: West Pointers,
junior officers, and blacks.
While Flipper was the acting
quartermaster, $900 somehow
disappeared, and the entire fort
looked with accusation at
Flipper. To buy a little time,
Flipper wrote a $900 note, in
the belief money was coming
to him for a book he had
written about his life at West
Point.
The money never came, and
a 3-month court- martial for
embezzlement followed, but
Flipper was found innocent.
But for the actions he had
taken when accused of the
crime, the court judged him
guilty of conduct unbecoming
an officer and discharged him
from the Army.
"FLIPPER REFUSED to
fold up or become bitter,"
Cromwell said. As a civil
engineer, he mapped parts of
the Southwest territories. Later
he became a special agent,
somewhat ironically, for the
Department of Justice.
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He appealed to Congress at
least seven times to clear his
name, but a pardon never
came. In 1922 he left the
government service and worked
as an engineer in Venezuela. He
died in Atlanta in 1940. his
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Project director Larry Long. . .consults the script
during the filming of The Trial of Henry Flipper at
Lincoln Air Park.
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in The Virginian and It Takes a
Thief. Virgil Frye, as Capt.
Barber, was in Patton and on
the make-up crew of Easy
Rider. Bill Bush, as Lt.
Wilhelmi, was in Five Easy
Pieces. Some of the minor
parts are played by local
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THURSDAY, MARCH A, 1971