Just Another Bombing?: This Is Donal and Iona’s Story (2024)

Overview

Just Another Bombing?: This is Donal and Iona’s Story takes audiences on a poignant journey through a little-known incident of the 1960s Civil Rights era. Iona Godfrey King and her son Donal Godfrey share their deeply moving account of surviving a Klan bombing of their home with three other family members on February 16, 1964, in Jacksonville, Fla. The reason for the bombing? Six-year-old Donal was the first Black student to enroll in the neighborhood Lackawanna Elementary School. The documentary relies on interviews with King and Godfrey, archival footage, and FBI and court documents to explore moments leading up to and after the domestic-terror attack.