An 8-year-old Bennie Warner's childhood encounter with a man making marks on white paper is now the subject of a powerful new documentary out of the U.S. State of Arkansas which has brought the Vice President to William R. Tolbert to the big screen.
The film begins in a small Liberian Village in 1943, when 8 year old Bennie Warner sees a man making "Black Marks on White Paper". The experience, according to filmmaker Bud Hager, establishes a vision, which will propels him to literacy, faith, teaching and eventually to the vice presidency in 1977.
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