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Article: COWLEY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR PRODUCING/DIRECTING FILM
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- June 11, 2007
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Cowley College issued the following news release:
Ken Spurgeon, director of Humanities, Social and Behavioral Sciences at Cowley College, is serving as the producer/director of the film "Bloody Dawn: The Lawrence Massacre", which began filming last week.
Spurgeon, who teaches history and government, wrote the film along with a colleague. The film tells the story of William Quantrill's raid on Lawrence, KS on August 21, 1863. It was the climax of the Kansas-Missouri border war during the Civil War and was an aberration even to those used to a violent war and time.
On that day in a space of four hours Quantrill and 450 Missouri bushwhackers murdered over 180 unarmed men. Many of those ...