Stories Hollywood Never Tells

Introduction

Zinn, the people's historian, presents many demonstrations of concealed material for likely video scripts. There are large tales out there waiting to be told. Zinn explains some of them. Recorded at the 1999 Taos Talking Film Festival. Introduction/tribute by David Barsamian (Crain 23).

Discussion and Analysis

Howard Zinn, lecturer emeritus at Boston University, was possibly this country's premier fundamental historian. He was born in Brooklyn in 1922. His parents, poor immigrants, were certainly going to stay, as he one time notified me," one step before the landlord." After high school, he went to work in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. During ...