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March 15, 2007

KCPT to Air Reprise of Bad Blood: The Border War That Triggered the Civil War

Airs Sunday March 18 at 8 p.m.


(KANSAS CITY)—By popular demand, KCPT's locally-produced documentary Bad Blood:  The Border War that Triggered the Civil War will be rebroadcast Sunday, March 18 from 8 to 10 p.m. on KCPT.


Bad Blood premiered March 4th. The program is a 90-minute documentary about the events leading up to the Civil War along the border of Kansas and Missouri. The program won praise from Kansas City Star television critic Aaron Barnhart, who said that he could not "recall a more thorough or compelling account of the tug of war between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas."

"We told the story through the eyes of both Missourians and Kansans. We took the people who lived it and interviewed them documentary style," said co-producer Angee Simmons. "We taped it as if we were interviewing them in the 1850s."

Co-produced with Wide Awake Films, funding for Bad Blood came from a grant from the Fred & Lou Hartwig Foundation. The Missouri Division of Tourism and the Kansas Department of Commerce provided additional funding. Other vital support came from the Kansas State Historical Society, Ludwig Design and Blue Wall Design. The production utilizes musical talents of Connie Dover. Danny Cox lends his voice for narration. Wetplate photographer Robert Szabo created eerily realistic photographs that have the unmistakable look and feel of photos from that era. The program will air locally on KCPT March 4 and will be distributed nationally to PBS member stations.

Shot in stunning High Definition, Bad Blood:  The Border War that Triggered the Civil War airs Sunday, March 18th at 8 p.m. on KCPT. For more information, including a preview of the program, visit http://www.kcpt.org/badblood/.

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