The Spring 2017 Political Science film Series featured “The Conscientious Objector” (2004), directed and co-written by Terry Benedict. The documentary explores the life of Desmond Doss, a US Army medic who was the first conscientious objector to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Seventy five students attended the March 1st event in the Alkek Teaching Theater in conjunction with the 2016-2017 Common Experience, “A Century of Conflict: Dialogues on the U.S. Experience of War since 1917.
