If my father Gary Cooper were alive today, you can bet where he would be on September 17th, 2022. He would be in the new Motion Picture Academy building in Beverly Hills to be part of celebrating Sacheen Littlefeather and be part of offering her the Academy apology for the wrongs vested upon her and Native Americans by the film industry. My father was always deeply upset at the way not only Hollywood but our country treated our Native American citizens both in reality and on screen. If he were invited to speak at this event, he might well quote Martin Luther King’s famous sentence, “The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.” He would be happy the Academy is finally helping to bring that justice to fruition.
See article: hollywoodreporter.com
