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Ken Burns on the Emotional Potency of Interviewing [video 6 min 6 sec]

Ken Burns talks about what makes the interviews in The War so emotionally potent and his method of choosing veterans to interview who were not only willing to tell their stories but who would otherwise have remained unnoticed within the fabric of their small home towns.
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