Oscar time: Booth’s ‘last campaign’ film nominated
It’s a story well known in Washington state, and now the subject of a short documentary that’s up for an Academy Award Sunday evening. It’s called “The Last Campaign of Governor Booth Gardner,” a reference to the popular former governor’s debilitating battle with Parkinson’s and his crusade to legalize physician-assisted suicide. This “last campaign” is also recounted in a Legacy Project biography now nearing completion. It’s called “Booth Who?” and is written by chief historian John Hughes. It will be…