THE LAST DAY OF FRANTZ FANON Followed by an interview with Josie Fanon, his wife

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December 5, 1961, Dr. Frantz Fanon, a.k.a., Ibrahim Fanon, psychiatrist from Martinique, Algerian revolutionary, author of The Wretched of the Earth, is lying in a hospital bed in room 37 of the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He first went to Moscow for treatment but was told that NIH was the preeminent facility for his type of cancer. He’s thirty-six years old. The day of his death on December 6, he’s reflecting on what his revolutionary activities have taught him.

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THE LAST DAY OF FRANTZ FANON Followed by an interview with Josie Fanon, his wife

December 5, 1961, Dr. Frantz Fanon, a.k.a., Ibrahim Fanon, psychiatrist from Martinique, Algerian revolutionary, author of The Wretched of the Earth, is lying in a hospital bed in room 37 of the
National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Maryland, USA. He first went to Moscow for treatment but was told that NIH was the preeminent facility for his type of cancer. He’s thirty-six years old.
The day of his death on December 6, he’s reflecting on what his revolutionary activities have taught him.
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