@article{1355911,
      recid = {1355911},
      author = {Choy, Christine. and Lampros, Spiro.},
      title = {The shot heard round the world [electronic resource] /},
      publisher = {Filmakers Library,},
      address = {New York, NY :},
      pages = {1 online resource (68 min.).},
      year = {1997},
      note = {Originally released as DVD.},
      abstract = {When Yoshi Hattori, a Japanese high school exchange  student, was shot to death one October night by a suburban  homeowner, the whole world was shocked once again at  America's gun culture. Christine Choy, director of the  multi-award -winning film Who Killed Vincent Chin?, spent  three years researching the event and the ensuing criminal  and civil trials. The result is this searing study in the  pathology of urban fear, gun violence, criminal justice and  cultural miscommunication. Yoshi had approached the Baton  Rouge home of Rodney and Bonnie Peairs seeking directions  to a Halloween party. Bonnie feared the stranger walking up  her driveway and summoned her husband. Gun in hand, Rodney  shouted "freeze" to which Yoshi, unfamiliar with the idiom,  did not comply. Rodney then pulled the trigger. Hattori s  parents, who had raised their son to admire America,  suffered their loss with dignity. They recall their son as  an honor student who enjoyed life with his host family and  was well liked by his new class mates. Rodney Peairs had an  extensive gun collection which neighbors remembered he used  when animals wandered on his property. The film does not  take sides regarding his claim that he was defending his  rights as a homeowner. Avoiding simple answers, it serves  up a complex picture, letting the audience draw their own  conclusions about one of the most controversial criminal  cases in recent years.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1355911},
}