A racially segregated film crew captures Two Towns of Jasper

Two Towns of Jasper, a feature-length documentary by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow of Two Tone Productions in New York, begins with a drive down the rough rural roads of Jasper, Texas, U.S. Pine forest lines either side of the streets, but the camera is trained on the road, which is painted with circles at frequent intervals for about three miles. With rising horror, the audience soon learns that the circles mark spots where evidence was gathered for the racially motivated killing of 49-year-old African American James Byrd, who was chained by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to his death on June 7, 1998.

June 1, 2002

Two Towns of Jasper, a feature-length documentary by filmmakers Marco Williams and Whitney Dow of Two Tone Productions in New York, begins with a drive down the rough rural roads of Jasper, Texas, U.S. Pine forest lines either side of the streets, but the camera is trained on the road, which is painted with circles at frequent intervals for about three miles. With rising horror, the audience soon learns that the circles mark spots where evidence was gathered for the racially motivated killing of 49-year-old African American James Byrd, who was chained by his ankles to the back of a pickup truck and dragged to his death on June 7, 1998.