Vendetta (1999 film)
1999 HBO movie directed by Nicholas Meyer
Vendetta crime drama television film directed by Nicholas Meyer , written by Timothy Prager , and starring Christopher Walken , Luke Askew , Clancy Brown , Alessandro Colla, Andrew Connolly , and Bruce Davison . Based on the 1977 non-fiction book of the same name by Richard Gambino , it depicts the assassination of New Orleans police chief David Hennessy and the consequent March 14, 1891 lynchings of eleven Italian Americans. It aired on HBO on July 3, 1999.[ 1]
Premise
Nineteen Italian-Americans were accused of the murder of David Hennessy , the police chief of New Orleans . After the acquittal of six and mistrial of three, ten of them were shot or hanged in one of the largest mass lynchings of Americans in U.S. history.
Cast
Production
The teleplay by Timothy Prager is based on Richard Gambino's book, Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History (ISBN 1550711032 ).
Principal photography took place near Kingston, Ontario , Canada.
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Before 1900 1900–1940 After 1940
Multiple victims
Death of Joseph Smith (Joseph Smith , Hyrum Smith ) (1844)Marais des Cygnes, KS, massacre (1858)Great Hanging at Gainesville, TX (1862)New York City draft riots (1863)Detroit race riot (1863) ? Lachenais and four others (1863)Fort Pillow, TN, massacre (1864)Plummer Gang (1864)Memphis massacre (1866)Gallatin County, KY, race riot (1866)New Orleans massacre of 1866 Reno Brothers Gang (1868)Camilla, GA, massacre (1868)Steve Long and two half-brothers (1868)Pulaski, TN, riot (1868)Samuel Bierfield and Lawrence Bowman (1868)Opelousas, LA, massacre (1868)Bear River City riot (1868)Chinese massacre of 1871 Meridian, MS, race riot (1871)Colfax, LA, massacre (1873)Election riot of 1874 (AL)Juan, Antonio, and Marcelo Moya (1874)Benjamin and Mollie French (1876)Ellenton, SC, riot (1876)Hamburg, SC, massacre (1876)Thibodeax, LA, massacre (1878)Mart and Tom Horrell (1878)Nevlin Porter and Johnson Spencer (1879)Elijah Frost, Abijah Gibson, Tom McCracken (1879)T.J. House, James West, John Dorsey (1880)New Orleans 1891 lynchings (1891)Ruggles Brothers (CA) (1892)Thomas Moss, Henry Stewart, Calvin McDowell (TN) (1892)Porter and Spencer (MS) (1897)Phoenix, SC, election riot (1898)Wilmington, NC, insurrection (1898)Julia and Frazier Baker (1898)Pana, IL, riot (1899)Watkinsville lynching (1905)1906 Atlanta race massacre Kemper County, MS (1906)Walker family (1908)Springfield race riot of 1908 Slocum, TX, massacre (1910)Laura and L.D. Nelson (1911)Harris County, GA, lynchings (1912)Newberry, FL, lynchings (1916)East St. Louis, IL, riots (1917)Lynching rampage in Brooks County, GA (1918)Jenkins County, GA, riot (1919)Longview, TX, race riot (1919)Elaine, AR, race riot (1919)Omaha race riot of 1919 Knoxville riot of 1919 Red Summer (1919)Duluth, MN, lynchings (1920)Ocoee, FL, massacre (1920)Tulsa race massacre (1921)Perry, FL, race riot (1922)Rosewood, FL, massacre (1923)Jim and Mark Fox (1927)Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith (1930)Tate County, MS (1932)Thomas Harold Thurmond and John M. Holmes (1933)Roosevelt Townes and Robert McDaniels (1937)Beaumont, TX, Race Riot (1943)O'Day Short, wife, and two children (1945)Moore's Ford, GA, lynchings (1946)Harry and Harriette Moore (1952)Anniston, AL (1961)Freedom Summer Murders (James Chaney , Andrew Goodman , Michael Schwerner ) (1964)Henry Hezekiah Dee and Charles Eddie Moore (1964)
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