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dweitzman commented about DuPont Theater on Jan 18, 2016 at 11:25 am

The Dupont Building and the Dupont Movie theater were both owned and operated by my parents, J. Daniel and Mary Weitzman, and the desegragated theater opened in 1948, not by Mann or Freudberg in 1961. American movie distributors refused to lease films to the desegregated theater and the FBI harassed my parent until they eventually had to sell in 1961.

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dweitzman commented about DuPont Theater on May 16, 2015 at 10:34 am

My parent built and ran the Dupont Theater from 1948 and it was the first nonsegregated movie theater in Washington D.C.