Dr. Robert Jordan was living an academic’s dream as an anatomy professor at St. George’s University on the island of Grenada. He worked with American and international students pursuing their dreams of becoming doctors. But in October of that year he awoke to the news of a government coup followed by a massive intervention by American troops. That story is told from the American troop’s perspective in a new Blue Ridge PBS documentary, One Week in October, but that film understandably does not consider the events through the eyes of the civilians on the ground who lived through it. Dr. Jordan provides a local perspective on the American intervention as he remembers how students and faculty came together in the face of adversity.
Broadcast In: English Duration: 0:26:18