PERKINS 28: Testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920

Overview

In 1920, Harvard University convened a secret court to interview, charge and discipline students suspected of being homosexual. Thirty-seven men testified before the Court, including a tutor, an assistant professor, Harvard students, and several Boston men. After two weeks of testimony, eight Harvard men were forced to withdraw, one of whom committed suicide. Based on actual court documents, "Perkins 28" dramatizes the testimony from the Secret Court Files of 1920, nine episodes of testimony before the Court. Filmed in Cambridge, MA, and starring Harvard undergraduates.

Cast

Nelson Greaves

Regent Matthew Luce

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DJ Smolinsky

Edward Say

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Christopher Carothers

Assistant Dean Gay

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Benjamin Cosgrove

Ernest Roberts

Steven DeMarco

Joseph Lumbard

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Nicholas Hasselberg

Kenneth Day

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Giles Hopkins Holt

Stanley Gilkey

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Nikita Makarachev

Eugene Cummings

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Jonah Priour

Keith Smerage

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Michael Segal

Cyril Wilcox

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Anthony Sterle

Assistant Dean Murdock

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Theodore Timothy

Nathaniel Wolfe