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April 17, 2007
harkin, hayden, and hanoi jane
This week in beautiful Sarasota is the annual Sarasota Film Festival. I'll go into more detail about the festival in a couple of days after I catch a movie. Today while I was looking through the film catalog to find a movie to watch one particular title stood out to me. The film is titled Revolution '67. I don't know much about the movie other than the brief synopsis. It's about the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. Focusing on the six-day Newark, N.J., outbreak in mid-July 67. Here's the Film Festival summery.
Like a single thread of light in the darkness of space Tom Harkin's name shines like the sun. Harkin truly is the Kevin Bacon of politics. Is Tom Harkin really the founder of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)? Just for the record the SDS was a radical New Left group from the 1960s that embraced people like Mao Zedong as enlightened philosophers.
Despite the fact that Mr. Harkin seems to be everywhere, it appears this occurrence is can simply be chalked up to mistaken identity... or is it? Is Tom Hayden just a simple alias for Tom Harkin? Well, no... unless Harkin is the master of disguise. Not only did Tom Hayden start the SDS (Tom Harkin), but he married Jane Fonda and made the famous trip to North Vietnam with her in 1972. Harkin and Hayden are like long lost comrades. While Harkin was in Vietnam (Japan), Hayden was driving the revolution forward. One little typo in the Sarasota Film Festival catalog, and I get to learn about Tom Hayden.
I have just one lingering question, how does someone mistake Harkin for Hayden? I mean, I understand their politics are similar, but those names are far apart. Some questions go without answers.
Posted by nemov at April 17, 2007 8:59 PM
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