DEAD MAN'S WIRE
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.
- Bill Skarsgård, Dacre Montgomery, Al Pacino
- Gus Van Sant
- Austin Kolodney
- 135 minutes
- R
There will be a 30-minute panel discussion before the film at 7pm with author Lisa Hendrickson and reporter Will Higgins. The film will start approximately at 7:30pm.
Lisa Hendrickson is an Indianapolis author who co-wrote, with Richard “Dick” Hall, Kiritsis and Me: 63 Hours at Gunpoint, which documents Hall’s 1977 kidnapping by Tony Kiritsis. In addition, she edited a series of three books commissioned by the Indiana Bicentennial Commission for the state’s 200th anniversary in 2016.
As a reporter for The Indianapolis Star, Will Higgins interviewed Tony Kiritsis. He also covered the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rallies in the rural Midwest, war in Iraq and a run of homicides in Gary, IN. Higgins is the founder of the Museum of Fabulosity, the American Association of Linear Bocce and the American Society of Presidential Urine Collectors.
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