Who are the people assassinated in the news clips in bowline for columbine, and why were they?

i mean, what did they do that got someone so angry they killed them right in front of film crews?

Who are the people assassinated in the news clips in bowline for columbine, and why were they?
What apalling statistics! What a shambles! Could we have expected better? Probably not!
Reply:It depends on the clip. One was a Vietnam Prisoner, another was a Civil Rights Protestor in the US.





They are pretty famous clips.





[edit] "What a Wonderful World"


The movie then cuts to a montage of American foreign policy decisions, with the intent to contradict McCollum's statement, and cite examples of how the United States has, in Moore's view, frequently been the aggressor nation (set to the song "What a Wonderful World" performed by Louis Armstrong).





The following is an exact transcript of the onscreen text in the Wonderful World segment:





1953: U.S. overthrows Prime Minister Mossadeq of Iran. U.S. installs Shah as dictator.


1954: U.S. overthrows democratically-elected President Arbenz of Guatemala. 200,000 civilians killed.


1963: U.S. backs assassination of South Vietnamese President Diem.


1963-1975: American military kills 4 million people in Southeast Asia.


September 11, 1973: U.S. stages coup in Chile. Democratically-elected President Salvador Allende assassinated. Dictator Augusto Pinochet installed. 5,000 Chileans murdered.


1977: U.S. backs military rulers of El Salvador. 70,000 Salvadorans and four American nuns killed.


1980's: U.S. trains Osama bin Laden and fellow terrorists to kill Soviets. CIA gives them $3 billion.


1981: Reagan administration trains and funds "contras." 30,000 Nicaraguans die.


1982: U.S. provides billions in aid to Saddam Hussein for weapons to kill Iranians.


1983: The White House secretly gives Iran weapons to kill Iraqis.


1989: CIA agent Manuel Noriega (also serving as President of Panama) disobeys orders from Washington. U.S. invades Panama and removes Noriega. 3,000 Panamanian civilian casualties.


1990: Iraq invades Kuwait with weapons from U.S.


1991: U.S. enters Iraq. Bush reinstates dictator of Kuwait.


1998: Clinton bombs "weapons factory" in Sudan. Factory turns out to be making aspirin.


1991 to present: American planes bomb Iraq on a weekly basis. U.N. estimates 500,000 Iraqi children die from bombing and sanctions.


2000-01: U.S. gives Taliban-ruled Afghanistan $245 million in "aid."


Sept. 11, 2001: Osama bin Laden uses his expert CIA training to murder 3,000 people.


On the website accompanying the film, Moore provides additional background information. [3]