David Loeb Weiss

A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.

A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.

A documentary about the last issue of The New York Times to be composed in the hot-metal printing process.

David Loeb Weiss completed a short documentary called To Make a Revolution about the Young Socialist Alliance (YSA), a revolutionary Marxist youth group closely allied to the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party.

In defending his refusal to be conscripted into the Vietnam War, champion boxer Muhammed Ali defiantly declared: ‘No Vietcong ever called me a nigger, my enemies are white people, not the Vietcong.’ His rebuttal suggested the title of this documentary, which depicts an anti-Vietnam-War rally in New York in 1967.

David’s first film, “Profile of a Peace Parade,” (1968) features interviews with antiwar New Yorkers at a large demonstration in Manhattan.