Product Details
- An MVD Exclusive
- SKU: IP6228
- Format: DVD
- UPC: 845637002863
- Street Date: 04/23/19
- PreBook Date: 03/19/19
- Label: IndiePix Films »
- Genre: Documentary
- Run Time: 67 mins
- Number of Discs: 1
- Audio: STEREO
- Year of Production: 2018
- Region Code: 0
- Box Lot: 30
- Territory: NORTH AMERICA
- Language: English
Cast & Crew
- Actors:
- Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Dick Gregory
- James Baldwin
- Director: Sean Slater
- Producer: Sean Slater
- Producer: Joseph Ruzer
- Producers: Sean Slater
- Producers: Joseph Ruzer
Product Assets
Target: St. Louis
Documentary about environmental racism, Army radiation testing & government conspiracy during the Cold War, Jim Crow era
- List Price: $24.95
- Your Price: $24.95
- In Stock: 15
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After Hiroshima, the United States Army, eager for new ways to weaponize atomic power, engaged in a series of classified open-air studies designed to test the effects of aerosol radiation in a metropolitan setting. At first the tests were described as defensive, the latest strategy against the threat of Russian bombers. But as later declassified documents suggest, the goal of the testing (performed primarily in low-income and African-American neighborhoods of North St. Louis), was to develop offensive capabilities which could match the climate and terrain of downtown Moscow. Consequently, generations of St. Louis inhabitants were unwitting participants in a government testing program which, like the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Project, was facilitated by the U.S. Department of Public Health. TARGET: ST. LOUIS investigates the historical catalyst for these events, the survivors' quest for answers and the subsequent Federal legislation requiring informed consent by human subjects.
Media
Bonus Materials
- Trailer
Sales Points
- Features James Baldwin (author)
- Target: St. Louis was a finalist at Los Angeles Cinefest and an Official Selection at Columbus Black International Film Festival, Baltimore International Black Film Festival
- Features Dr. Lisa Martino-Taylor (sociologist at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and author of Beyond the Fog)
- Features Dick Gregory (social activist and famed comedian)
- Features Fannie Lou Hamer (co-founder and vice-chair of the Freedom Democratic Party)
