Snapshot · Empire: World History
Every Fourth of July for approximately three decades, Ken Burns has read the Declaration of Independence aloud to his daughters and, more recently, his grandchildren.
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Anita attempts a quickfire round on a man who works in 18-hour documentary series. Burns plays along. Best president: George Washington first, because 'we don't have a country without him,' then Abraham Lincoln. Best president America never had: Benjamin Franklin, whose 'extraordinary possibilities' Burns admires, and in a more contemporary sense, Hillary Clinton — a terrible campaigner and candidate, he says plainly, but potentially a very accomplished president. The film he most wants to make: Martin Luther King Jr. The family controls access to much of the archival material, understandably trying in death to control a man they could not control in life. But Burns has already shot 70 hours of interviews with civil rights movement foot soldiers, and a King project is actively in progress. If given a thousand years to live, he says, he would not run out of American history to document.
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