Wednesday, May 7, 2014

'Book Of Matt' Author At Free Library Of Phila.

Stephen Jimenez | The Book of Matt: Hidden Truths about the Murder of Matthew Shepard 
Tuesday, March 11, 2014 at 7:30 PM; FREE at the Free Library of Philadelphia, Central Branch, Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia


No tickets or reservations required. For more info: 215-567-4341

Fifteen years ago, Matthew Shepard was found savagely beaten, unconscious, and tied to a fence in Laramie, Wyoming, sparking international attention and the watershed hate crimes bill signed by President Obama in 2009. 
When investigative journalist Stephen Jimeneztraveled to Laramie to conduct research for a screenplay about Shepard, he uncovered instead a tragic story involving another corrosive problem facing the American heartland: methamphetamine. 
Over the course of a decade-long inquiry, Jimenez found a tangled web of secrets around the murder and an apparent cover-up reaching all the way to the White House. 
A 2012 Norman Mailer Nonfiction Fellow and recipient of an Emmy and the Writers Guild of America Award, Jimenez has written and produced programs for ABC News 20/20, Dan Rather Reports, Nova, and Court TV.

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