The Evening of the Fourth of July.

Deaths and injuries from the holiday celebrations had exceeded the wildest prophecies, he noticed.

It breaks the heart to see.

This was the first time anybody had gathered together a critical assessment of him. I gathered together his stories. A lot of people saw that, and I think it had a snowballing effect.

In July 1955, Weldon Kees's car was found abandoned in a parking lot near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. There was no trace of Kees -- no body, no suicide note -- and to this day the mystery remains unsolved.

Pioneered the promotion of avant-garde film in America.

We present for you this evening a movie of death.