Bill Jersey, the Bay Area documentarian who wrote, directed, shot, edited and produced films for more than a half-century, collecting two Oscar nominations and three Emmy noms along the way, has died. He was 99. Jersey died July 24 of congestive heart failure at his home in Lambertville, New Jersey, his wife, Shirley Kessler, told the San Francisco Chronicle. Jersey earned his feature documentary Oscar noms for A Time for Burning (1967), about a white Lutheran minister’s unsuccessful attempt to connect to Black folks in Omaha, Nebraska, and Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1990), a profile of the Supreme Court justice…
