They were living in outdoor camps. She drove by one of these camps and stopped and made some pictures, got back in her car and was part way home and thought i didnt do what i was supposed to do. I didnt get the picture. I didnt say what needed to be said. So she turned around, went back. The story that we got from migrant mothers grandson, migrant mother is the name that picture thats so famous usually goes by, the story was that his grandmother, Lauren Thompson was camped near the edge of the road. Her husband and older son had gone to find whatever they needed to keep the car going. Apparently they had poked a hole in the radiator and needed something to patch it up with so they could make it to the next farm, next place to pick crops. So Florence Thompson was back at the camp with the children, no cell phone, no way to communicate. How were they going to find each other when the husband and son came walking up the road . So she was near the edge of the road, which was a very dangerous place to be. These migrant laborers were extremely unpopular in california. There was already a picking arrangement for the crops out there. They didnt need these dust bowl okies who were coming in from the drought areas of the united states. The farmers didnt want these new people coming in, the townspeople didnt want this many camped on the side of the road, camped in their towns, didnt want to have to pay for their children to go to school. They were extremely unpopular. Police were hired to clear these people out, make them move on to another part of the state or the county. So by the edge of the road Florence Thompson was in a vulnerable situation. Thats who Dorothea Lange photographed. She saw this woman with several small children, a teenage daughter and some younger children and began work her way up to her. Apparently Dorothea Lange was very good at engaging people in conversation and then just sort of disappearing into the atmosphere. She talked about herself as becoming invisible as she worked. She would very slowly talk to the people about what was happening, what straits they were in, how they fed themselves, that kind of thing and then they would sort of forget about her and she would begin making pictures and thats what she did with Florence Thompson. Theres a series of pictures showing the teenage girl out in front of their tent sitting on a chair, the mother and the young are children behind her and then gradually she gets closer and closer and makes the famous photograph. And she said she knew as soon as she had made it that thats what she needed to have found and went back home. Youre watching American History tv all weekend, everyone weekend on cspan3. To join the conversation, like on facebook cspan history. He was a nazi commandante and he was responsible for the murder of millions of jus. Jews. He was a tremendously cruel person, the person who was i mean, he was capable of he had dogs, he had two dogs. He called them ralph and he trained them to tear humans apart. I think that sums it up really good. There was a pleasure that he felt when he when he killed people. And this is something that when youre normal, if you dont have this aspect in your personality, it is very, very difficult to grasp. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Many of the republican and democratic president ial candidates visited this years iowa state fair in des moines. Coming up, we look back to the 1988 president ial race where seven Democratic Candidates participated in a debate at the fair. Speakers include joe biden, al gore, richard gephardt, jesse jackson, bruce babbitt, paul simon and michael due kakis, who went on to win the nomination but lost to Vice President george w. Bush. This is two hours. This will help iowans. Getting down to the business,