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Punch 9 for Harold Washington [Plays Nov. 11-18 at DOC NYC festival; for more information, log on to https://www.docnyc.net/film/punch-9-for-harold-washington/.] Joe Winston's engaging, eye-opening, informative, insightful, behind-the-scenes, timely, 105-minute documentary that chronicles the tumultuous campaign of ambitious, progressive African-American Harold Washington in 1983 as he ran to be Chicago's first Black mayor and his equally turbulent time in office until his unlikely death in 1987 and consists of numerous archival film clips, debate and speech excerpts, and candid commentary by former Chicago mayors Richard J. Daley and Rahm Emmanuel, journalists (such as Laura Washington, Nicholas Lemann, Vernon Jarrett, and David Axelrod), congressmen (such as Jim Houlihan, Gus Savage, and Jesús G. "Chuy" García), Barack Obama, reporters Gary Rivlin and Monroe Anderson, corporation counsel James Montgomery, Rev. Jesse Jackson, Chicago council members (such as Danny Davis, David Orr, and Dick Mell), friend Justice Charles Freeman, fiancée Mary Ella Smith, strategists Jacky Grimshaw and Marilyn Katz, housing commissioner Brenda Gaines, state representative Al Ronan, photographer Michelle Agins, press secretaries Donald Rose and Alton Miller, aldermans (such as Dick Mell, Roderick Sawyer, and Ed Burke), Washington aides William Walls and Kari Moe, Ariel Investment founder John Rogers, pastor B. Herbert Martin, Washington volunteer Valerie Jarrett, Jewish city council member Jane Ramsey, Bernard Epton's scheduler Bonnie Hickey, activists Timul Black and Joe Gardner, black political empowerment taskforce founder Dr. Robert Starks, and professors Conrad Worrill and Dick Simpson.   Redhead: Year: 2021 Rating:  NR View Punch 9 for Harold Washington on the Internet Movie Database