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Best Kept Secret: Erik's Birth Mother
2m 13s
Erik's birth mother comes to visit his class at JFK High School.
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Video description: On a hot summer night in Detroit in 1982, Ronald Ebens, an autoworker, killed Vincent Chin, a young Chinese American engineer, with a baseball bat. Although he confessed, he never spent a day in jail. This gripping Academy Award-nominated film relentlessly probes the implications of the murder, for the families of those involved, and for the American justice system.
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