Project Details

Category: Documentary Single (1×60’)

Director:  Simon Finch

Editor:  Justin Badger

Executive Producers:  Brendan Hughes, Harry Bell

Commissioner:  Channel 4

About

Could one man’s deadly act really be for the common good? In the early 1960s John Harris blazed a trail as a prominent and peaceful anti-apartheid activist. He even helped to get South Africa barred from the Olympics. But in July 1964 everything changed. He placed a bomb in Johannesburg station, hoping to deal Apartheid a crushing blow. Instead, he killed a 77yr old woman, severely burnt her young granddaughter, and was hanged eight months later, the only white man executed for crimes against Apartheid.

Channel 4 single documentary; A Borough Productions & Tern TV production.