PERKINS 28: Testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920 backdrop

PERKINS 28: Testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920 2008 Directed by Michael Van Devere

In 1920, Harvard University convened a secret court to interview, charge and discipline students suspected of being homosexual. Thirty-seven men testified before the Court, including a tutor, an assistant professor, Harvard students, and several Boston men. After two weeks of testimony, eight Harvard men were forced to withdraw, one of whom committed suicide. Based on actual court documents, "Perkins 28" dramatizes the testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920, nine episodes of testimony before the Court. Filmed in Cambridge, MA, and starring Harvard undergraduates.

Country USA
Language English
Gneres Drama , History
Release Date 26 November 2008
76 mins
Cast
Nelson Greaves Regent Matthew Luce
DJ Smolinsky Edward Say
Christopher Carothers Assistant Dean Gay
Benjamin Cosgrove Ernest Roberts
Steven DeMarco Joseph Lumbard
Giles Hopkins Holt Stanley Gilkey
Nikita Makarachev Eugene Cummings
Jonah Priour Keith Smerage
Michael Segal Cyril Wilcox
Anthony Sterle Assistant Dean Murdock
Theodore Timothy Nathaniel Wolfe
Mikhl Yashinsky Harold Winfield Saxton