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Fortunate Sons

Sponsored Project

  • Peter Jones, Director/Producer
  • John Manulis, Producer
  • Taylor Vracin-Harrell, Producer
  • David Rosemont, Producer
  • Scott Shepherd, Producer
  • Peter Haldeman, Producer
A large group of young men in red robes stand on the football field of their school, preparing for their graduation.

About the Project

In 1968 – while The Beatles rocked a generation, and the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy shocked the nation – seventy-two 12 year-old boys entered the 7th grade at the elite, all-male, military Harvard School for Boys in Los Angeles - the young men of “the biggest generation” being groomed to lead American society.

These are the real-life stories of American men who grew up together and, now, as they prepare to celebrate their 50th high school reunion, embrace their friendships and lean into the truths of their journeys with humor and vulnerability. Fortunate Sons explores the challenges that all Americans have confronted as the world around them changed more rapidly and in more ways than anyone expected.