Stranger with a camera Summary

In the Poverty stricken region called Appalachia that spreads from southern New York to northern Mississippi a local from Kentucky and documentary filmmaker by the name of Elizabeth Barret wanted to take her skill with documentary filmmaking to the next level. To do this Barret took a camera to where she grew up in the Appalachia region of Kentucky. The film is called “Stranger with a Camera” which takes a good look into a murder that shocked the world. Where Barret starts her story is with the death of a film maker by the name of Hugh O’Connor. In the mid 1960 ‘s Hugh O’Connor was hired to produce a film about poverty in America and this brought him to a part of Kentucky called Letcher County where poverty was at a all time high. He was documenting on all of the family that were considered to be living in poverty. On his way out of town he saw a house that caught his eye. He drove up to the house where there was a man sitting on the porch with his daughter by the name of Mason Eldridge who at the time was renting that house from a man named Hobart Ison who was know around the county as a man not to be messed with and to be respected. Eldridge spoke with O’Connor and agreed to let him film him self and his daughter.Ison got word of this and thought that O’Connor was trying to make fun of poor people this is when ISon told O’Connor to leave his property O’Connor was on his way leaving when Ison shot O’Connor in the chest and killed him. Ison was only imprisoned for a year simply because a impartial jury could not be found.
I feel that Ison might have over reacted because O’Connor was leaving and he had agreed to leave but Ison Just shot him anyway. I don’t feel that Ison was out of line thought because it was his property and O’Connor did not ask the property owner for permission. This scenario in the end I think it was a big misunderstanding because Ison jumped to drastic conclusion before he ever really knew what was actually going down also O’Connor thought that Eldridge was the owner when in reality Ison owned the property in which O’Connor was photographing