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Peter Koper
Peter Koper (born 1947) is an American journalist, professor, screenwriter, and producer. He numbers among the original Dreamlanders, the group of actors and artists who worked with independent film maker John Waters on his early films. He has written for the Associated Press, the ''Baltimore Sun'', ''American Film'', ''Rolling Stone'', and ''People''. He worked as a staff writer and producer for ''America's Most Wanted'', and has written television for the Discovery Channel, the Learning Channel, Paramount Television and Lorimar Television. Koper wrote and co-produced the cult movie ''Headless Body in Topless Bar'', and wrote the screenplay for ''Island of the Dead''. He has taught at the University of the District of Columbia, and Hofstra University.
==Early life and influences==
Koper was born in 1947 in British-occupied Quakenbrück, Germany, to Polish resistance fighter Antoni Koper and Holocaust survivor Sophie Koper. In 1952, his family emigrated to the United States, living first in Pacific Grove, California. In 1958, the family relocated to Washington, D.C., where his father worked for the United States Information Agency.
At the age of sixteen, Koper attended the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, where he heard Joan Baez and Bob Dylan sing, and heard Martin Luther King, Jr. deliver "I Have a Dream." Fifty years later, Koper recalled how the crowd had fallen silent as King began to speak, and how his words had made it seem like the struggle for civil rights could be won.
In 1965, Koper matriculated at Johns Hopkins University. There, he co-edited ''The News-Letter''. Author Richard Ben Cramer, a freshman when he began at ''The News-Letter'' in 1967, remembered Koper as a role model, one of the "giants" to whom he hoped he would someday "measure up." While still a student, Koper also took his first job as a paid reporter, for the ''Baltimore Afro-American''. For "the Afro," Koper covered such historic events as the demonstration to release the group of draft protesters known as the Catonsville Nine. Later that same day, Koper covered a political rally for segregationist presidential hopeful George Wallace inside the Baltimore Civic Center, and the subsequent spontaneous demonstration against Wallace outside. In the confusion, he was caught up in a group of a hundred and fifty demonstrators, whom police dispersed with dogs. Koper was arrested by police, in spite of presenting his press credentials, and charged with "failing to obey a reasonable and lawful request of a police officer." A municipal court judge ultimately dismissed the charge. He was graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1969 with a B.A. in the humanities.
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