HBO has long said it's more than TV.
Monday (Oct. 10) the living proof of that ad, the West Memphis 3, took the stage at the cable station's New York City headquarters. The three men -- Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley -- attended the premiere of the third documentary, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" chronicling the 1993 case.
"This is a little frightening," Echols says. "This case has already eaten up 20 years of our lives."
"I don't want it to be just forgotten," he says. "This happens all the time."
Were it not for HBO's dogged persistence in chronicling the railroading of the three then teenagers their story would have long been forgotten. The three spent 18 years in prison for murders they always maintained they did not commit. Echols was on death row.
This documentary, the third filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky made on the topic, is dedicated to the victims.
Monday (Oct. 10) the living proof of that ad, the West Memphis 3, took the stage at the cable station's New York City headquarters. The three men -- Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley -- attended the premiere of the third documentary, "Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory" chronicling the 1993 case.
"This is a little frightening," Echols says. "This case has already eaten up 20 years of our lives."
"I don't want it to be just forgotten," he says. "This happens all the time."
Were it not for HBO's dogged persistence in chronicling the railroading of the three then teenagers their story would have long been forgotten. The three spent 18 years in prison for murders they always maintained they did not commit. Echols was on death row.
This documentary, the third filmmakers Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky made on the topic, is dedicated to the victims.
- 10/11/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Los Angeles (Reuters) - Premium cable TV network HBO plans to re-tool the ending of the third in a series of documentaries it has backed on the "West Memphis Three," reflecting Friday's decision to free the men previously convicted of murder.
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. pleaded guilty in an Arkansas courtroom on Friday to the gruesome, 1993 murders of three young boys, but in an unusual bargain with prosecutors, the men were allowed to maintain their claims of innocence in the case and were set free.
The case -- and the question of their guilt or innocence -- had become a cause celebre, attracting attention from actor Johnny Depp, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder and Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, among others.
It is also the subject of 1996 Emmy-winning documentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" by directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky that aired on HBO.
Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jessie Misskelley Jr. pleaded guilty in an Arkansas courtroom on Friday to the gruesome, 1993 murders of three young boys, but in an unusual bargain with prosecutors, the men were allowed to maintain their claims of innocence in the case and were set free.
The case -- and the question of their guilt or innocence -- had become a cause celebre, attracting attention from actor Johnny Depp, Pearl Jam singer Eddie Vedder and Dixie Chick Natalie Maines, among others.
It is also the subject of 1996 Emmy-winning documentary "Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills" by directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky that aired on HBO.
- 8/19/2011
- by Reuters
- Huffington Post
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