For the Greater Good: Norris Dam at 80
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Күн бұрынJuly 28, 2016: This WBIR documentary special coincided with the 80th anniversary of Norris Dam, TVA's first dam and one of the first experiments of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's "New Deal." We examine the history and future of the dam that drastically changed the physical and social landscape of East Tennessee. Thousands of photographs, rare recordings, and interviews tell the story of a project that brought hope to an area at the expense of 14,000 people forced to abandon their ancestral homes, dig up their loved ones' graves, and drown their communities in a new lake for the greater good of society. bit.ly/2YZVtBM
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Below is a list of the content of the special broken into four main blocks. Click the listed time to go directly to a segment.
00:00 James Agee montage, 1935 Fortune Magazine
01:21 Introduction: Norris Dam and rural electricity
03:03 George Norris vs. Henry Ford
04:50 Mountaineer life before the dam idea
08:37 TVA is born and first leaders appointed
11:58 Creating public support through media and meetings
14:46 Dam designs begin and workers hired
18:23 Tease: Rare look inside the dam
18:36 Vignette: prior dam proposals
18:55 Constructing a dam and new society
24:21 Meeting and relocating mountaineers
27:35 Moving mills
28:02 Digging up graves
31:29 Tease: newly discovered film and mountaineers
31:50 Finishing the dam, lights come on
34:48 Final holdouts and farewells
38:47 Vignette: Native American archaeology
39:03 Norris today, original vision versus reality
42:11 Vignette: Hooked on electric power
42:46 Mountaineer descendants' major generation gap
46:03 Conclusion: concrete and humanity
47:08 Final credits
@BigMoney23223 Жыл бұрын
“If it’s better for others, I’m willing to go” Man that’s some deep stuff. People willing to pack up their entire lives and leave all they’ve ever known for other people to prosper. Beautiful people
@TheDustysix 5 жыл бұрын
The Manhattan Project, the design, development, production and subsequent use in Combat could never have happened without the TVA power as well as the workforce. Added to my Manhattan Project WW2 Playlist.
@jynxkidd2204 2 жыл бұрын
I don't necessarily think the families moved because they felt a sense of higher purpose. From what I have been told, the land was either bought out from under them, or they were compensated by the government for their land at a fraction of what they got it for.
@robertbates6057 2 жыл бұрын
The river bottoms of TN, NC and N GA was the best farmland in the Mtns. They were also the ancient sites of Native towns. The farmers were FORCED off of their family farms. No archaelogical preservation was done. Ancient artifacts buried forever. The crooked politicians, big business, big banks, and world elites only care / cared about more money and control. Hell, they made the wars and profited from sales of arms and munitions selling to both sides. We know who they really are now.
@1HorseOpenSlay Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking
@crystalfranklin2583 11 ай бұрын
Not fairly compensated though, I bet. And with Eminent Domain, they didn't really have a choice either way. If they refused to sell, they were forced off their land and their homes and communities were destroyed regardless, all in the name of "progress".
@detectiveofmoneypolitics Ай бұрын
Economic investigator Frank G Melbourne Australia is following this great and balanced content 😀
@wobblysausage8472 Жыл бұрын
TVA while I’ve enjoyed the energy prices, I’d much rather of had that family farm and life it provided. Life for many other families that never had theirs flooded here in Tennessee sure accelerated while the others got left behind and forgotten. The descendants of many of these families are still around living that same life and have never fully recovered.
@larrycounce4509 Жыл бұрын
Here in the flatwoods of Tennessee we got electricity in the mid to late 50s I was 5 or 6 but remember removing the wood stove and replacing with an electric stove.
@calwest2207 Жыл бұрын
Outstanding program, presenting many viewpoints in an interesting way with dignity and grace. A program of this topic and quality would not be made here in California. I visited TVA Pickwick Landing Dam completing a dream goal.
@bobbym4811 3 жыл бұрын
Love how he says 80 years ago, within living memory to some! And looks at the woman reporter 😆 🤣
@leonardgordon1748 2 жыл бұрын
Interesting how in response to Big Business we full in with Big Government. At least the serfs got electricity.
@highbrass3749 Жыл бұрын
Big government and big business, all run by the same people.
@thesilentgeneration Жыл бұрын
The same thing could happen today, only in a different way. The government will never let a good crisis like the Great Depression go to waste. It is an opportunity to change everything. The upcoming crisis now in the monetary system, who knows what drastic changes that will make and who will be asked to sacrifice. Change for good or bad is all in the eye of the beholder. All I know for sure is our rights are being steadily taken away from us. For the greater good?
@agy234 Жыл бұрын
We’ll be serfs in one way or another either to government or big corps
@crystalfranklin2583 11 ай бұрын
Many families and communities in Western North Carolina experienced the exact same seizure of property, destruction of homes and communities and loss of ancestral cemeteries during TVA's construction of Fontana Dam. Lies and broken promises. Thanks TVA.
@Samantha30090 Жыл бұрын
Under these policis, this country grew and prospered unlike now where it's every man for himself, cities that have withered and died. I guess big business got a chance to show how much "better" private industry could do as opposed to government (as it existed at that time) and the result is devastating.
@DavidYoung-lo5iz 5 жыл бұрын
Great documentary.
@dwayneday2895 3 жыл бұрын
Make mention of Marvin T Runyon of TVA work for ford motor company was the last mochian of free Enterprise was a postmaster general under president Ronald Reagan born 1924 Died age 79
@jonathanray83 4 күн бұрын
They only wanted the First dam in Campbell County to have enough power to develop the Nuclear Bomb in Oak Ridge They weren't playing with output
@klumplakelifetv9952 2 жыл бұрын
Our house down there is in lafollette
@solonutiket564 5 ай бұрын
TVA has done its job. Now it should be privatized to reduce the number of Federal employees. Money from its privatization should be used to reduce the national debt.
@kimburkhart7897 3 жыл бұрын
They stated that everyone agreed that it was for the greater good, but that is a lie. I have ancestors that went together with others and filed a class action lawsuit because they were being robbed of their land. They tried to get fair market value for their properties. The government condemned everyone's property to make it possible for TVA to buy all of the land for pennies on the dollar. Leaving all of the people with nothing. Also, family cemetaries were dug up and people were relocated here, there and everywhere. This is proof that the government will take whatever they want.
@jerrybridges6065 2 жыл бұрын
I would like to see were they lived at
@xylol412 Жыл бұрын
Is Michael Crowe still with this station? He looks like a reporter that worked in Waterloo, Iowa when I lived there.
@mildredrharmon4032 Жыл бұрын
💔😢🙏🏼
@Jeff-ff8lg 4 ай бұрын
We're still waiting on the cheap electricity and the bridge they promised us to go from union county to Campbell county. Still waiting.
@sonyaenix2336 2 жыл бұрын
Norris Dam is falling apart. You would think TVA engineers would do something. When we were in elementary school we went on tours inside the dam . Now there is to much water inside very unsafe
@andyfeimsternfei8408 2 жыл бұрын
And what do you base that on?
@melissacole4903 2 жыл бұрын
Recurring theme “sacrifice for the greater good”. I hope they’re still getting “cheap” electricity 🧐 Edit: Curtis Reiner? was a wise man
@Samantha30090 Жыл бұрын
Well, if they're not getting "cheap electricity", it's because today's ideology is anything BUT ... "for the Greater good 😀
@user-mo5up9ow9z Жыл бұрын
hi
@KevanRice Ай бұрын
wrong subject regeneration power orlean obtainable
@dwayneday2895 3 жыл бұрын
For CEO power of TVA an nuclear atom energy grid and prosperity of change to in rich our lives for a simpler more comfortable life we owe a great gratitude of invention and for thought of modern way of life if the board see fit to pay him he earns his money fair an honest though there guidance my a light shine an only five family's were move d by force CEO retairment should two third earning as a respectful gratitude
@Jeff-ff8lg 4 ай бұрын
They had no other choice but to agree stop trying to sweeten what tva did to poor folks
@user-rz3gv2gp9y 21 күн бұрын
For the greater good!? 😅😂😅😂😅 That's so rich. You mean for the greater good of Uncle Samantha. Not all of us are zombie's nor fools
@RackemDawg 6 ай бұрын
They covered up a temple. Boo
@eled8086 Жыл бұрын
What's the matter, there's no African Americans living in Tennessee ?
@johnrogan9420 Жыл бұрын
Marshall Wilson TVA Judas .
@catladycatlady7359 3 жыл бұрын
Progress for the sake of progress is idiotic and horrible. I really feel bad for the people that had to move and dig up their dead to take them with them after generations of living on the same land. Absolutely appalling. 🤬
@fuyt216 3 жыл бұрын
Really, think about what you just said and think about what you used to type this comment.
@catladycatlady7359 3 жыл бұрын
@@fuyt216 my opinion is unchanged. Life was better before internet
@SRose-vp6ew 3 жыл бұрын
@@fuyt216 I know you mean well. However, some of us enjoy the simple life off the "socially engineered trauma grid." Do you even see the wording in the above video and how it paints a picture to grip emotions "for the greater good." Do you understand there were some people who never feared C0VID or ran out of what you depend on stores for? The people were happy. Are their great-grandkids? Progressives will never change. They are bullies of their way of life as the only way of life and they use manipulative words and slander to get away with what they do. They try to create utopia and actually destroy it. They say they care about the environment and people but really all they care about is having the power to control the people and make money off the fears people have in regards to the environment. They let the gov. and their rich buddies take land and jobs so the working class can't work. It's like some have been public school and algorithm trained not to understand. Literal words in the physical dictionary have been redefined online so teens can't talk to their grandparents without thinking their grandparents mean things they don't. If computers went away tomorrow my kids and I would be fine, would you? Would you remember what the German Socialist party did? How they claimed it was for, "progress," "for science" and "to be kind."
@bobberguy1 2 жыл бұрын
Are you appalled by the Native Americans forced off this land and couldn't take their dead? Didn't think so.
@catladycatlady7359 2 жыл бұрын
@@bobberguy1 Assume much do you?