Notes of a Citizen: The Marcus Raskin Story follows a daughter’s desperate search to better understand her late father’s prolific and tumultuous life as a progressive revolutionary during the 1960s/70s as she is confronted with explosive secrets from the past. These discoveries challenge her preconceived notions of a man she once thought she knew so well as she uncovers the untold history of her father’s life when he was indicted with the Boston Five for Vietnam Draft Resistance, co-founded a first of its kind progressive think tank that was infiltrated by the FBI, helped release the Pentagon Papers, and was devastated by the assassination of two colleagues orchestrated by a foreign dictator on US soil.

Notes of a Citizen brings the past into the present, uncovering the darker side of our country’s history when the government was weaponized against its citizens and explores the consequences it had on a family and the nation. Through the archives Marcus left behind, the music he played, and intimate conversations with friends and family including son Congressman Jamie Raskin, we explore how a piano prodigy from Wisconsin shook up Washington by becoming the conscience of Kennedy’s White House, a proud member of Nixon’s Enemies List, and ultimately a founder of the progressive movement whose ideas and values we rely on to this day.

Breathing life into this inspirational story, Notes of a Citizen explores the complexity, strength and vulnerability of a man, a movement and a country through a daughter’s journey of revelation and reckoning. This is a story we need now more than ever.