Event: "Truman Capote and the Legacy of In the Cold Blood" by Ralph Voss prsented with the Maysles Brothers film "With Love from Truman"
Time: Thursday, May 28, 2015, at 12 Noon
Event Type: Community Educational
Location: The Alabama Department of Archives and History, Montgomery
Cost: Free
Event Website: www.southernliterarytrail.org/
Sponsor: Southern Literary Trials
Contact: Alabama Department of Archives and History at 334-242-4435
Info: Author Ralph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas, in November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by shotgun blasts from two unknown intruders. In his book and this special program, Truman Capote and the Legacy of "In Cold Blood," Voss examines Capote and his famous book about the murders from many perspectives: the crowning glory of Capote's career and its larger status in American popular culture. As depicted in many films including the Oscar-winning Capote, the investigations by Capote and Harper Lee in Kansas have assumed legendary status and become part of the story.