CGS HU 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Heavy Weight Champ, Red Scare
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On the waterfront (in the 50"s, around the time of the red scare) Head of the union, johnny friendly, is corrupted. He uses his power to skin the top of trade: in the end gets more money from it. If anyone gets in his way, they will get killed. Charlie was sent to go kill terry, but did not want to kill terry so he let him get away and in the end, charlie was killed. Charlie was a heavy weight champ, terry was the agent. Charlie pulls a gun on his brother terry telling him not to testify because charlie rigged the game for selling terry"s dream down the drain. Charlie felt bad for selling his brothers dreams and then dies for terry. Eedi is the sister of the brother who got killed, brother has been pushed off the building. Eedi doesn"t think that terry did the murder, but she knows that terry knows the info she wants.