Check out ‘Central Park Five’ tonight

Most people who lived through the late 1980s recall the shocking story of the Central Park Jogge r rape case. It involved a young woman who was beaten and raped in New York’s Central Park in April 1989. Five young men ended up being arrested, convicted and sentenced for the crime — even though, after another man confessed to the crime, the convictions of all five men were eventually vacated.

Now the wife of filmmaker Ken Burns , Sarah Burns, has teamed up with her husband and David McMahon to produce and direct a film about the case, titled simply enough “The Central Park Five.”

The film, which has already screened in Spokane, will be shown again at 7:30 tonight at the Magic Lantern Theater. The showing is cosponsored by the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane and the Gonzaga School of Law. Mary Pat Treuthart, a professor at the law school and cohost of Movies 101, will present the film and lead a follow-up discussion.

Tickets are $7. For more information, click here.