88 seconds in Greensboro

Film/Tape footage of shootout recorded by three separate TV crews. Interviews and sequences with KKK and American Nazi members showing meetings, cross-burning demonstrations, etc. Interviews with widows and friends of dead demonstrators. Interviews with US Senator who investigated use of informers by US law agencies. Sequence showing court authorized hypnosis of TV reporter who was present at shootout and recounts its details. Sequences/interviews with paid police informer who details events leading up to the shootout.What is a delicate balance involved between law enforcement agencies’ need to use paid informants... and the need to protect individual freedoms? This powerful documentary details a fatal gunfight in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1979 using film footage recorded by three separate TV crews. Ku Klux Klan and American Nazi Party members exchanged gunfire with the Communist demonstrators. Five people died. In an exclusive interview, a secret paid police informer inside the Klan recounts events leading to the shootout, and raises disturbing questions concerning the use of police informants inside militant political groups in the US.