Ken Burns Units Report Straight Over Picture With Supreme Courtroom Justice Clarence Thomas

Ken Burns has made a press release after a photograph surfaced of the documentary filmmaker with Supreme Courtroom justice Clarence Thomas and billionaire David Koch. Whereas Koch has funded certainly one of Burns’ documentaries, Burns maintains that he and the Supreme Courtroom Justice haven’t any connections or relationship.

“Round ten years in the past, Ken was stopped and requested to take {a photograph} with a Supreme Courtroom Justice and David Koch, who was a supporter of public tv and would later present some funding for his movie, ‘The Vietnam Conflict.’ So he took the picture, as he has executed with many, many others. Apart from the taking of that {photograph} and innocuous pleasantries, that’s the extent of his contact with Justice Thomas,” a spokesperson for Burns stated in a press release to Selection.

“The Vietnam Conflict” is a 10-part, 18-hour lengthy PBS documentary piece that chronicles first-hand accounts from witnesses and members from either side of the conflict.

The picture started circulating Friday after a ProPublica article revealed perception into Thomas and Koch’s monetary connections and particulars about their fundraising community. It was revealed that Thomas had attended two of Koch’s donor occasions, “which places Thomas within the extraordinary positions of getting served as a fundraising draw for a community that has introduced circumstances earlier than the Supreme Courtroom, together with one of the crucial carefully watched of the upcoming time period,” stated ProPublica.

Whereas Burns was not talked about within the article, the picture appeared because the lead picture which was stated to have been taken on the Bohemian Grove throughout an all-men’s retreat in California.