Summary on " Stranger with a gun"

The video, " Stranger With a Camera" produced and directed by Elizabeth Barret is a documentary on why a person would commit murder on an innocent man who just carried a camera. This video explores what caused this man to go buserk and the culture of the town where the murder was commited. This video takes you into the lives of the people who live there.
Hobert Ison was a man who lived in the little town in Lecher County, Kentucky in the Appalachia Region. He was a very well known man in the town, who helped people out alot. He owned alot of land and didn't like people stepping on his land. As one woman expresses in the video, Hobert Ison was a caring, loving man who everyone liked.
The outsider was a man named Hugh O' Connor who was a highly skilled director of the National Film Board of Canada. O'Connor was a traveling man who wasn't at home very often, according to his daughter. The reason why he traveled so much was because he was, indeed, a photographer who captured rare seen footage, and looked for different cultures, unusual in big cities.
Appalachia was a region which caught peoples eyes in the 1970s. The lands were rich and the people different. The Appalachia people and culture became widely published in the media. This didn't go so well with some people, as they felt that they were being portrayed as being poor, showing only the bad things, not the good. This region was all about mining in the hills, where there was plenty of coal. Every man , if he wanted a job, had to find it in mining. Coal was partly why this area got so much publicity. They wanted to show Americans what miners did and how they lived. Asking the question "is this the American dream".
Hugh O'Connor and his crew of photographers were driving up one road, when they saw a man who just got done working in the mines, was on the porch holding his baby. O'Connor stopped to ask if they might take his picture. The man( Mason Elbridge) said yes you may, no big deal. The photographers found something else very close afterwards that interested them off the side of the road, I'm not sure exactly what it was but they were filming it, when a man(Hobert) drove up and started yelling at the men saying " get off my property", as the yelling continued, Hobert got excessively mad and shot Hugh O' Connor to death. Why? They explain in this video that it was because Ison was a very private man who didn't like people just doing whatever they wanted on his land. Hobert went to jail for this crime that he had commited, but was released after just one year behind bars. Unable to find an impartial jury to hear his trial, they declared a plea bargain. He declared it was self defense, saying" I had to do it. What would he have done to me picture wise and all?" Some say he did right in killing O'Connor, but nothing gives a man a right to kill.


I believe I could talk about how O'Connor went into Hobert's private life and somehow photographed something that he didn't want other people to see. The same is for athletes and actors, who want their lives to be private, but are unable to because we have this media today that looks to pry into anything and everything in one's life for a good story.