A Study Guide for Place in the World Prepared by Roberta McNair for CFI Education Table of Contents About the Film ........................................................................................................................................................... 4 The Central Park Five (2012) ..................................................................................................................... 4 Synopsis ..................................................................................................................................................... 4 Critical Reception ...................................................................................................................................... 4 The “Central Park Five” Speak for Themselves ...................................................................................... 4 The Central Park Five ............................................................................................................................. 6 About the Filmmakers ............................................................................................................................................ 8 Ken Burns .................................................................................................................................................. 8 Sarah Burns ............................................................................................................................................... 8 David McMahon ........................................................................................................................................ 9 Background .............................................................................................................................................................. 10 A tourist’s view of New York in the 1980s .............................................................................................. 10 New York in the 1980s ............................................................................................................................ 10 The Climate: New York in 1989 ............................................................................................................... 11 What really cleaned up New York ........................................................................................................... 13 Race relations .......................................................................................................................................... 18 Race Relations in New York City .......................................................................................................... 18 The Three Faces of Racial Profiling ...................................................................................................... 18 Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York City Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices ............................................................................................................................................... 20 Police and Prosecutors ........................................................................................................................................ 24 Central Park Jogger case: Where are they now? .................................................................................... 24 Robert Morgenthau ............................................................................................................................. 24 Linda Fairstein ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Elizabeth Lederer ................................................................................................................................. 24 Mike Sheehan ...................................................................................................................................... 24 Park Marauders call it: ‘WILDING’ ........................................................................................................... 25 Arrest, interrogation, and trials ............................................................................................................... 27 A Journey Through the Tangled Case of the Central Park Jogger ........................................................ 27 Jog trial jury is a mini-N.Y. ................................................................................................................... 34 The Victims ............................................................................................................................................................... 36 Kevin Richardson ..................................................................................................................................... 36 2 Yusef Salaam ........................................................................................................................................... 36 Korey (Kharey) Wise ................................................................................................................................ 36 Raymond Santana ................................................................................................................................... 37 Antron McCray ........................................................................................................................................ 37 Jog mom fires lawyer .............................................................................................................................. 37 Jog trial teen throws tantrum ................................................................................................................. 38 Learn More and Get Involved.................................................................................................................. 39 The Innocence Project ......................................................................................................................... 39 The Center on Wrongful Convictions of Youth .................................................................................... 39 The Innocence Network ....................................................................................................................... 39 Know Your Rights ................................................................................................................................. 39 Trisha Meili .............................................................................................................................................. 40 I Am the Central Park Jogger ............................................................................................................... 40 Central Park Revisited ............................................................................................................................. 41 Exoneration: Its Costs .......................................................................................................................................... 47 Four of ‘The Central Park Five’ appeal for settlement in 10-year-old wrongful conviction in case of 1989 Central Park jogger rape ................................................................................................................. 47 ‘Central Park Five’ Documentary on New York Justice System Breakdown Pulls Filmmaker into Legal Battle ....................................................................................................................................................... 48 City loses lame effort to get Ken Burns material on Central Park jogger case ........................................ 55 Questions for Research and Discussion ....................................................................................................... 57 3 About the Film The Central Park Five (2012) Set against the backdrop of a city beset by violence and facing deepening rifts between Directors/Screenwriters/Producers Ken Burns, races and classes, The Central Park Five Sarah Burns, David McMahon intertwines the stories of these five young men, Cinematographers Buddy Squires, Anthony the victim, police officers and prosecutors, and Savini Matias Reyes, unraveling the forces behind the wrongful convictions. The film illuminates how Editor Michael Levine law enforcement, social institutions, and media undermined the very rights of the individuals Synopsis they were designed to safeguard and protect. The Central Park Five tells the story of the http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/centralparkfive/abou five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem t-central-park-five/ who were wrongly convicted of raping a white Additional information on the film: woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. “Documentary Provides New Look at Infamous The film chronicles the Central Park Jogger case, Central Park Jogger Case,” for the first time from the perspective of the http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/11/25/document five teenagers whose lives were upended by ary-provides-new-look-at-infamous-central-park- jogger-case/ this miscarriage of justice. “Ken Burns tells story of ‘Central Park Five,’” by Gary On April 20, 1989, the body of a woman Levin, barely clinging to life is discovered in Central http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/01/14 Park. Within days, Antron McCray, Kevin /central-park-five-pbs/1834187/ Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam confess to her rape and beating Critical Reception after many