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Chol Soo Lee (August 15, 1952 – December 2, 2014) was a Korean American immigrant who was wrongfully convicted for the 1973 murder of Yip Yee Tak, a San Francisco Chinatown gang leader, and sentenced to life in prison.
Oct 18, 2023 · Watch the trailer and read reviews of this 2022 film that tells the story of Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee, who was falsely accused of a Chinatown gang murder in 1970s San Francisco. Learn how journalist K.W. Lee exposed the racism and corruption of the justice system and led a social movement to free Chol Soo Lee.
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- Documentary
- Julie Ha, Eugene Yi
- 2023-10-18
Watch the life story of Chol Soo Lee, who was wrongfully convicted of murder in 1973 and freed by a pan-Asian solidarity movement. Learn how he rebuilt his life after 10 years of imprisonment and faced new challenges.
Aug 12, 2022 · Lee’s heartbreaking, remarkable, and undeniably complex story is the subject of Free Chol Soo Lee, a documentary by journalists and filmmakers Julie Ha and Eugene Yi that draws its name from...
- Cady Lang
Aug 18, 2022 · Chol Soo Lee, a handsome, charismatic Korean immigrant victim of injustice and horrific bad luck, is seen here in archive footage telling his own story, supplemented by readings...
Aug 26, 2022 · K.W. Lee, a pioneering Asian American journalist, helped free Korean immigrant Chol Soo Lee with a series of investigative news articles in 1978. But he had never expected to outlive Chol...
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Aug 12, 2022 · “Free Chol Soo Lee,” the new documentary by Julie Ha and Eugene Yi, tells the tragic story of an immigrant wrongfully convicted of murder in San Francisco in 1973. That was just the latest bit of bad luck Lee encountered, but it would not be the last.
