Jason Hehir and 'Murder in Boston: Roots, Rampage, and Reckoning'

Higher Learning with Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 11.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2024

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay are joined by filmmaker Jason Hehir to discuss the new docuseries ‘Murder in Boston’ (1:25), explain Boston’s history of racial strife (13:24), and the city's reckoning with its past (24:18). Hosts: Van Lathan and Rachel Lindsay Guest: Jason Hehir Producers: Donnie Beacham Jr. and Ashleigh Smith Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	We have one of the world's greatest filmmakers showing us on Highland.
0:05.0	You guys have all consumed his content over a long career
0:10.0	of making documentary films, making films.
0:13.4	Jason, how long you been at?
0:16.1	In the business 25 years, but making films of my own,
0:19.5	probably since like 06?
0:21.3	06, wow, wow, wow.
0:25.0	You probably know him, if you're a casual Johnny Combe
0:29.4	lately to the career of Jason Hire, from the last dance which took the entire culture by
0:37.8	storm the whole world by storm and has fostered some interesting
0:41.4	relationships that haven't even yet settled.
0:46.1	Still some reverberation from that documentary and we appreciate everything that you gave us during COVID.
0:53.0	But his latest foray, a murder in Boston, excuse me,
0:57.0	murder in Boston is a fascinating, wild, and just ridiculous, ridiculously important ride into injustice, social inequality,
1:11.6	all based around one happening in Boston.
1:14.2	We have the director of that joining us today.
1:17.6	Jason, how you doing, man?
1:18.6	Thank you for joining us on higher learning.
1:20.3	I'm great, Van, thanks for having me. Okay, let's talk about this.
1:25.0	Let's talk about murdering Boston.
1:27.0	Let's talk about, because we talked a little bit about this and you gave me the rundown about it.
1:33.0	We'll get some breaking news about the documentary itself which is fantastic.
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