“To see where we are, look where we've been”

A short review and a strong recommendation: go and watch the documentary “Four Died Trying” - The Prologue closes with the quote: “The Mystery is not who did it. It's what we are going to do now!”

If only for this: You should go and watch the new documentary “Four Died Trying” and hear the urgent plea of legendary polictical satirist Mort Sahl: “Fascism came to America. And it’s alive and well. It’s thriving. So somebody has to say something!”

In this sense, Mort Sahl, who was the first comedian to be featured on the cover of TIME Magazine in August 1960, has been an early supporter of Vera Sharav, whose documentary “Never Again Is Now Global”. It is Fascism that was at work 60 years ago in Dallas as well as on 9/11. Fascism never ceased to exist.

The new documentary examines the parallels of the four traumatic assassinations in the 1960’s USA: JFK, MLK, Malcolm X, and RFK. But it is an effort not so much about the past. As the prologue states: “The Mystery is not who did it. It's what we are going to do now?”

And: To see where we are, we need to look where we’ve been.

The documentary was directed by John Kirby. Producer is Libby Handros, both of whom also worked together on the 2005 documentary “The American Ruling Class”.