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The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman

Name: The Man Who Might Have Been: An Inquiry into the Life and Death of Herbert Norman
Duration: 1 h 38 min

John Kramer

1998 | 1 h 38 min

This feature documentary is a portrait of Herbert Norman, the Canadian ambassador to Egypt who leapt to his death in 1957. During his remarkable career, Norman had been a trusted aide of General MacArthur in post-war Japan and later played a key role in the Suez crisis. But for years, a US Senate subcommittee probed his past while the FBI accumulated a huge file on him, refusing to accept an RCMP investigation that cleared him of being a communist spy. Interviews with key players and dramatizations help reconstruct Herbert Norman's life.