I've probably seen this documentary something like 25-30 years ago, and the takeaway that David McCullough leaves us with has stayed with me all these years, and I quote it all too often in so many daily situations, and that is (paraphrased): It is wrong to assume that people in responsible positions, are responsible people.
@@danawinsor1380 -Apply the law equally to everyone, even if his last name is Biden. -No more bailouts, EVER, even if it's Goldman Sachs Hold the MSM accountable for lying.
if you voted for Trump against hilary clinton who wanted us to forgive the bankers who caused the great recession, you did vote for a remedy.@@danawinsor1380
Tragedies like this bring people together, even after all these years it's heartbreaking. I really appreciate these old AE videos back when PBS was for everyone. Thank you!
Interesting that I recently saw a 1926 movie about this flood, and no mention was made of the rich ppl behind it. Nope. The movie villains were loggers who built the lake to float logs. SMH.
I was checking the comments for a comment mentioning this very fact. The part where the interested parties were going to discuss.. discuss what?? These people are all dead, so their entitled f-ing souls will have surely moved on by now! No one was ever charged.. they lacked the courage to ever go back to their 15 room cottages, then again with the lake now down range and with a town looking for some set of rich jewel encrusted a-holes to blame, what good thing was there to go back for?
This video is a digitized version of a VCR recording of the actual TV broadcast of the film on PBS more than 2 decades ago. There would therefore obviously be certain problems that that might entail, including an errant accidental break in the film here and there......... FYI someone FINALLY uploaded another version on Daily Motion www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i2v9h
The beginnings of global warming started during this period, so no doubt the extreme weather event was a direct result of industrialization. The industry of those wealthy tycoons.
No. Just like today, too wealthy idiotic Wall Street bluebloods put their own personal comfort above the necessary infrastructure improvements required to serve the public at large. The difference is that today, while they criminally neglect the General Welfare of the nation and let our nation's infrastructure rot, they conveniently attribute the resulting disasters to "climate change" to cover they're own obvious culpability...
I've probably seen this documentary something like 25-30 years ago, and the takeaway that David McCullough leaves us with has stayed with me all these years, and I quote it all too often in so many daily situations, and that is (paraphrased): It is wrong to assume that people in responsible positions, are responsible people.
Yes. So true.
"the lesson from the Johnstown flood is this"
Rich people never lose money and never have to pay a price for being wrong.
Is there a solution towards remedying this kind of system or are we stuck with it?
@@danawinsor1380
-Apply the law equally to everyone, even if his last name is Biden.
-No more bailouts, EVER, even if it's Goldman Sachs
Hold the MSM accountable for lying.
if you voted for Trump against hilary clinton who wanted us to forgive the bankers who caused the great recession, you did vote for a remedy.@@danawinsor1380
Absolutely! SMH. And it doesn’t change. We are just expendable/replacable cogs to the damned Rich.
@@danawinsor1380Revolution? It worked for the French. They actually sent their corrupt President to prison.
RIP
To the 2,208 people who were killed in the Johnstown Flood
Hear hear? 🙏
Takin' turns dancing with Maria as the band played the Night Of The Johnston Flood....
Tragedies like this bring people together, even after all these years it's heartbreaking. I really appreciate these old AE videos back when PBS was for everyone. Thank you!
Excellent show!
Yep. There are 2 laws in America: 1 for poor and 1 for rich. Some things never change.
I grew up in Portage, just a few miles from South Fork.
It never, ever changes, does it? The rich cause disasters. Everyone else pays for them.
Yup.
Imagine this burning river pile in a big ass city today...
Wow.... 😮
The narrator sounded more like Leonard Nimoy than Len Cariou.
Interesting that I recently saw a 1926 movie about this flood, and no mention was made of the rich ppl behind it. Nope. The movie villains were loggers who built the lake to float logs. SMH.
20:11 intentionally removed a section of the show??
I was checking the comments for a comment mentioning this very fact. The part where the interested parties were going to discuss.. discuss what?? These people are all dead, so their entitled f-ing souls will have surely moved on by now! No one was ever charged.. they lacked the courage to ever go back to their 15 room cottages, then again with the lake now down range and with a town looking for some set of rich jewel encrusted a-holes to blame, what good thing was there to go back for?
This video is a digitized version of a VCR recording of the actual TV broadcast of the film on PBS more than 2 decades ago. There would therefore obviously be certain problems that that might entail, including an errant accidental break in the film here and there......... FYI someone FINALLY uploaded another version on Daily Motion www.dailymotion.com/video/x8i2v9h
They skipped a lot of the barbaric chaos that ensued during the aftermath.
The beginnings of global warming started during this period, so no doubt the extreme weather event was a direct result of industrialization. The industry of those wealthy tycoons.
No. Just like today, too wealthy idiotic Wall Street bluebloods put their own personal comfort above the necessary infrastructure improvements required to serve the public at large. The difference is that today, while they criminally neglect the General Welfare of the nation and let our nation's infrastructure rot, they conveniently attribute the resulting disasters to "climate change" to cover they're own obvious culpability...
How do you do a documentary on Western PA and get someone to narrate it who doesn't know how to say Carnegie.