Hard Times: A Ken Burns Playlist
Published on Nov 18, 2015
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HARD TIMES: A KEN BURNS PLAYLIST
Inspired by my recent Storify
See how hard times shaped American history with these scenes selected by Ken. 10 scenes (19:53)
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Hard Times Intro (1:00) "To study the Depression is to study ourselves at our worst and then it shows us the resiliency that we do have."-Ken Burns
Photo by Children's Bureau Centennial
Ken on The Depression (0:59) "You begin to understand individual heroism at every level."-Ken Burns
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Share the Wealth (1:29) "It is our estimate that four percent of the American people own 85 percent of the wealth of America..."-Huey Long
Photo by Leo Reynolds
Hunger and Thirst (3:26) "Somebody had blundered and the most expensive orgy in history was over..."-F. Scott Fitzgerald
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FDR's Fireside Chats (2:32) "It is your problem, my friends, your problem no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail...Let us unite in banishing fear."-FDR
Photo by France1978
Devastated Baseball (0:58) Attendance dipped to its lowest levels in decades.
Photo by Old Guard Museum
Building Human Happiness (2:34) "We are definitely in an era of building today, the best kind of building..."-FDR
Photo by Wolfgang Staudt
Hard Times (1:59) "We couldn't find a dime in the house to buy a loaf of bread."-Calvin Crabill
Photo by Mann Library
A Reason for Living (1:31) As if it were medicine, Americans were buying 700,000 swing records a month...
Photo by Truus, Bob & Jan too!
