Voices from Laramie

摘要

A Month After The Murder Of Mat-thew Shepard, the gay college student beaten and tied to a fence outside Laramie, Wyo., in October 1998, the orgy of media coverage and national soul searching over this horrific hate crime was beginning to die down. But just then the belea- guered town of 27,000 got another influx of visitors. They were actors from New York City who had cast themselves in new roles— as reporters. With tape recorders in hand (and working in pairs at first, in case there was any trouble), they fanned out across the community to interview people affected by the crime: the bartender who saw Matt Shepard leave with the two men later convicted of his murder, the emergency-room doctor who treated Shepard at the hospital, friends of the killers, police officers, religious leaders, college officials, ranchers.