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Ken Burns

👤 Speaker
2924 total appearances

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The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Yes, indeed.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And I've spent most of my professional life, not ignoring them in favor of chronicling them in some ways, chronicling them in some ways, but you know,

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

But it's not all dark either.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

It's an incredibly positive story.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And if you listed all the good things, I don't know any other country on earth that could put up, you know, starting with the Declaration, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And then you just go on, whether it's land grant colleges or national parks or Homestead Act or, you know, child labor laws or antitrust or, you know, the GI Bill or Social Security, labor's right to organize interstate highway, man on the moon, affordable care, Medicaid, etc.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Medicare, you know, voting.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

I mean, this is like an amazing stuff and it has tangible things.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

William Luchtenberg, the latest story and died recently at 102, was an advisor for almost all the films that we worked on.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

But he was in our Roosevelt thing.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

He said, you land at LaGuardia.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

fdr new deal you go across the bridge fdr new deal you go through the lincoln tunnel fdr you go down the skyline drive and the you know blue ridge parkway thing if you do the lincoln highway if you do this damn 10 000 landing strips you begin to understand all of the ways in which just that one presidential administration transformed the country how long

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Yeah, I think that's the correct.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Although we've had things like the Shakers and baseball and jazz, country music.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

But we unlock the narrative and are more impressionistic for the last 25, 30 years.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

That's what I've said.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

So the actual event of the Central Park Jogger, that's a film that came out in 2012, 2013, was 1989.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

So it's still 25 years.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

It's still under 25 years, but it's enough.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Things are collapsing.