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Coloradan4Truth

(394 posts)
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:37 AM Sunday

Christmas in Appalachia, The Permanently Poor - A CBS News Special Report, 1964

Narrated by Charles Kuralt.

This popped up in YouTube for me. I found it interesting because I have ancestors who were coal miners. I wonder how it turned out for these folks.

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Christmas in Appalachia, The Permanently Poor - A CBS News Special Report, 1964 (Original Post) Coloradan4Truth Sunday OP
Still voting for Trump, Justice, Manchin, Caputo, McConnell, Rand Paul, etc displacedvermoter Sunday #1
Unfortunately Coloradan4Truth Sunday #2
This was being filmed six hours west of my home and six months after I was born. OldBaldy1701E Sunday #3

displacedvermoter

(4,080 posts)
1. Still voting for Trump, Justice, Manchin, Caputo, McConnell, Rand Paul, etc
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 11:44 AM
Sunday

So it really hasn't turned out well, I imagine things have regressed since any progress made in the Great Society. ACA was also boon to that region, but folks they helped elect will be putting paid to that as well.

OldBaldy1701E

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3. This was being filmed six hours west of my home and six months after I was born.
Sun Dec 21, 2025, 06:18 PM
Sunday

And, it was done on December 6th!

Okay, I am joking about that last one. But, this is a very good bit of history and I hope you all get the chance to check it out.

(My favorite documentary of The Revolutionary War is the six-part series of the same name that is narrated by Kuralt. Although it is primarily about the war itself, there is enough background and side information to make it worth the viewing.)

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