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Annie Oakley
Annie Oakley
American Experience
"Annie Oakley," an on-target profile of the sharpshooter.
Wyatt Earp
Wyatt Earp
American Experience
Wyatt Earp came to epitomize the marshal responsible for taming the Wild West.
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Television's most-watched history series, American Experience has been hailed as "peerless," (Wall Street Journal) "the most consistently enriching program on television," (Chicago Tribune) and "a beacon of intelligence and purpose." (Houston Chronicle) On air and online, the series brings to life the incredible characters and epic stories that have shaped America's past and present.
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Craig commented on American Experience on 02.28.11
Besides being as dramatic an event for this country as a whole fire safety wise, I wouldnt be here if it hadnt happened. You see my grandmother was a young 14 YO labor organizer who was "out on strike" walking the picket lines in front of the Triangle Shirt Waste Factory at the time the fire began. If she hadnt been as active in the labor movement even at age 14, I wouldnt be here. She would have been just another statistic among 174 others who perished during that horrible event
Sydney commented on American Experience on 02.28.11
This is an historical FACT. Left to their own devices virtually every Company will chose to benefit the bottom line before aught else. As likely as self preservation. The middle class which is what distinguished the U. S. from the rest of the world was built due to Union development.
On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York's Greenwich Village. By the time the fire had burned itself out, 146 people were dead. The landmark legislation that followed gave New Yorkers the most comprehensive workplace safety laws in the country.
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