Iowa-born Jean Seberg was a gifted actress whose compassion for oppressed people led her to champion the struggle for civil rights in volatile 1960s. Targeted for her ideals by powerful government forces out of control, she was neutralized and ultimately destroyed. It is a story of the '60s which is as new as today and tomorrow. Jean Seberg deserves recognition as a martyr of the civil rights era. Included in this edition are additional interviews as well as a conversation with two former FBI agents, ten pages of photographs, reproductions of pages from Seberg's FBI file, a dissection of an AIM (Accuracy In Media) report, and letters written to the FBI after the public revelation of the Bureau's counterintelligence program against Seberg.
Iowa-born Jean Seberg was a gifted actress whose compassion for oppressed people led her to champion the struggle for civil rights in volatile 1960s. Targeted for her ideals by powerful government forces out of control, she was neutralized and ultimately destroyed. It is a story of the '60s which is as new as today and tomorrow. Jean Seberg deserves recognition as a martyr of the civil rights era. Included in this edition are additional interviews as well as a conversation with two former FBI agents, ten pages of photographs, reproductions of pages from Seberg's FBI file, a dissection of an AIM (Accuracy In Media) report, and letters written to the FBI after the public revelation of the Bureau's counterintelligence program against Seberg.
