Thinking of Antietam, as Billy Corgan sings ” Someone has to RISE ” ! This melody echoes in the mind of our Film’s innovative originating author, JAaron Anderson. It is TIME for this story to be heard. Sonicism and established experience aside, below is how the calling to create this Film / idea turned into TV series came about . . . Read WHY he wants to make this TV Series?
When did I get the idea for this Film?
While serving my local community civic engagement Day Of Service on Martin Luther King Day, I was inspired by the 70th honorarium service held commemorating the Crozer Theological Seminary on Widener Campus, (my Alma Mater), where Dr King got his start and founded his ministry. In reflection on myself, I found a calling for this story coupled with my previous story archiving for the Permian Basin Veterans Memorial and The United States Marine Heritage Foundation. I wanted to uncover untold never before stories of soldiers and be a catalyst for them making it to the silver screen. Growing up my father, Floyd Anderson showed me a love for baseball with his favorite player being Roberto Clemente. I stumbled onto Jackie Robinson enlisting in the Army and it was there I discovered his personal battles in the face of the great war and the 92nd Buffalo Soldiers and its Medal of Honor Heroes. Their tales have compelled me to publish these great stories of perseverance and inspiration to future generations and capture an untold part of American Heritage in a new positive light.
Are there any films or TV shows similar to my idea? What sets my film apart?
No World War II battlefield episodic captures the character storylines like I intend to portray while interweaving the Holocaust thread and a twist of supernatural to tell the story of this solder’s ultimate sacrifice never before brought to the silver screen.
Our lead character/characters and their arc.
My Lead Protagonist is based on a real soldier portraying his encounter to defy the fates for God his people and his country. He is accompanied by three other volunteers that personally choose to stay behind and remain on the front lines and the over arc focuses on the personal socio-cultural battles that define a great portion of what was supposed to be the war to end all wars.
Why do I want to tell this story? What is my personal connection to it?
The soldier’s tale has compelled me to publish these great stories of personal perseverance and inspiration to future generations and capture an untold part of American Heritage in a new positive light. Several of my undergrad papers dabbled with many of the topic I hope to confront and have prepared me to represent in slivers of the film as overtones subtly challenging conventional thought including holocaust denial, racial discrimination and I am fascinated with this ‘greatest generation’.
About JAaron:
JAaron is an accomplished screenwriter and award winning producer of published untold stories for education and awareness such as the recent PBS documentary History of Film Making and Rachel’s Challenge 2005 Tribecca iFilm winner out of over 11,000 entries worldwide.
http://tiara2.tripod.com/RMassacre.html
… Samuel Coovert ( scape goat /jay mark / fall guy )
army head wound detached to home 3 months
… https://wcrcarchives.wordpress.com/2015/09/11/wanted-roosa-family-murderer-1000-reward/
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/roosa-murders-led-warren-only-execution/tGWWudKXmOTheAGtdomGKL/
The others Meets
THE ROOSA MASSACRE
Practically every county has a startling multiple murder that has taken place in bygone years and the story with all it’s gory details, has been handed down from one generation to another. In reading the newspaper stories of which mass murders, one becomes very aware of the change in journalistic writing in the last 100 yrs. We find such expressions as “brave little Nettie (Jeanette) alone in the house with five silent forms” or the “white snow in the lane was crimson-streaked” or “she lapsed into eternal sleep”. The accounts were written to play upon the reader’s emotions and in that way were very successful.
The Warren County murder that still can claim to be the most gruesome occured December 26, 1864, on the John Roosa
farm one mile north of Deerfield (South Lebanon) about midnight of that day. It was according to newspaper accounts,
“the most horrible in the annals of crime.” One adult, the Roosa’s “hired man”, Jesse Couzens and three Roosa children,
Alice 13, Francis 11 and little Harry, lying by his mother’s side, were all killed by one man with a dull axe which belonged
to the house. Mrs. Roosa was bludgeoned into unconsciousness by the same dull axe, but by a miracle recovered.
The father, John Roosa, was a patient in the “Lunatic Asylum” at Dayton where he had gone voluntarily because of regular
monthly attacks of lunacy or in our more modern vernacular, severe depression.
Mr. Roosa was a township treasurer and most of the time was capable of taking care of the business. Just before the time of the murder, Mr. Roosa had written a letter instructing her to sell their barley crop of 800 bushels and to keep the money at the house for the purpose of paying orders on the township treasury. Unfortunately, the letter was read aloud in a store in Deerfield (South Lebanon) in the presence of a number of persons. This publicity was, of course, the cause behind the robbery and murders. However, only about $20.00 was found in the house.
Excitement ran high and Mr. Roosa was accused until it was proved that he had not left the institution. Several others were arrested, proved their innocence and were released. Finally a former Deerfield resident named Samuel Coovert presented himself to the Proscecuting Attorney with the story that a saloon keeper from Cincinnati named David Hicks had confessed the massacre to him. He enlarged upon the story to such an extent that suspicions were aroused. Hicks was able to prove that he was not involved and subsequently Coovet was tried and found guilty of perjury and sent to the penitentiary for five years.
Investigations of his stories and activities pointed to the fact that he himself was guilty of the murders. He was removed from the penitentiary and brought to Lebanon to stand traial. All of these investigations had consumed two years so it was not until March 1, 1866 that Samuel Coovert’s trail began with George Smith as judge and George Sage from the office of the proscecuting attorney. Mrs. Roosa during the two year interval had recovered although she was badly scared on the face and neck. She was able to testify at the trial and her most vital statement was to the effect that the murderer had held the axe in his left hand. Sam Coovert was found to be lefthanded. In identifying him, Mrs. Roosa said, “He looks like the man, his eyes look to me like the mans’s, they have the same staring look, I noticed it every time I look at him.” Little Jeanette, who by the time of the trial was nine, also said that Sam Coovert “looked like” the man but since she was hiding under the bed she could not say for sure. The trial lasted several days and a guilty of first degree murder verdict was returned. However, it was learned that one
juror had expressed the opinion before the trial that Coovert was guilty. Another trial was ordered, the same verdict was reached and Samuel Coovert was sentenced to die.
The scaffold for the execution of Sam Coovert was built in the yard behind the jail in Lebanon for the execution had been ordered to take place in Warren County. A large crowd gathered on August 24, 1866 and promptly at “12 o’clock the doomed man was taken to the scaffold. He seemed very weak but quite calm. Standing on the trap door soon to fall beneath him.” he again stated his innocence in a “steady voice”. The minister offered a prayer for, ” the soul that was about to be hurried into eternity, prepared or unprepared”….”Goodbye, Sam, I will meet you at the judgement seat and then all hearts will be known.”
The black cap was drawn over his face and the hook above was fastened to cord on the cap, he said, ” An innocent man gentlemen, I am.” “God bless you, Sam Coovert, good bye,” said the Sheriff.
“Good bye,” responded Coovert.
Then the lever was moved and the door fell and Samuel Coovert was sent into eternity.
Samuel Coovert is the only man to be executed in Warren County.
This in it’s briefest form is the melodramatic story of the famous Roosa Massacre. If Samuel Coovert were innocent as he insisted, a dear price had been exacted from him. In all of the intervening years no new evidence has come to light that would help to prove his innocence. The story has been told and retold until it is almost a Warren County folk-tale. Unfortunately, it is true!
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By J. Aaron Anderson
INCITING INCIDENT : ACT I LOCK IN : ACT II FIRST CULMINATION : ACT II MAIN CULMINATION ( CLIMAX ): ACT II 3RD ACT TWIST : ACT III FINAL ACT : ACT III
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For almost forty years dozens of New York City
elevators continue to mysteriously trap certain women;
dark-haired fair-skinned wearing red accessories.
One billion dollars and a decade later engineers
continue to blame faulty electricity issues and
insurers cite such pattern is sheer coincidence.
transit officials failed to see patterns in mechanic failures …
Today functionality issues still plague the inner city
and it is believed by a growing number that this true 1860 farm tale is the haunting curse behind it all.
1959
Janet v.o.
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as a child just about every time whenever i walked up to my room, i felt his presence heavy behind me ,
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the air would grow tick and cold and id see his black void form at the top of the stairs peering over me but that was my normal so why would i question it
1969
JANET V.O.
As i grew older tending to the farm Id learn to try to ignore him
… I believe he liked to watch me kill chickens chopping off their necks for dinner – out at the old tree stump beside the coop — which was common for us to do on the farm. This was perhaps our connection perhaps some sick form of mutual respect formed.
But the sight of the red blood seemed to agitate his energy. I could tell because when I wore a favorite red scar or other he made his presence known more than usual.
1979
JANET V.O.
It seemed when my new husband installed carpet over the stairs which bore hatchet marks from that night id the spirit vanish. Perhaps it was I gave birth to my first child that year. Our lives moved on from the farm; the house was torn down and industry settled in.
1989
JANET V.O.
A new 17 story research and development tower completed construction and became a local landmark. Now how would you EVER suspect to think that the tower was to be erected Right at the place where the house was and murders happened upstairs. This reawoke the spirit I am certain of that.
1999
JANET V.O.
His demon’s presence would consume all my energy many times. My children were my oracle but they both moved away from me this year. I felt the spirit bombard me once again.
2019
JANET V.O.
I realized if I let go so too finally would he. On Lucky St Patricks Day I past at 3:56 am now I confront him on even terms.
OTS Bar
head is like sapwood, the soft, sap-conducting wood between a tree’s bark and the hard, inner timber
It is to my attention his wife found her “bread and butter” with another man even had his child all while he was overseas. His woman ruined him screwed around on him while he was overseas. He has nothing to live for
to “make a lobster kettle” of herself.
The elevators built in the tower continue to malfunction and skip floors throughout NY to this day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0t0XICXDxcY
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