CSPAN Capitol Hill Hearings November 29, 2012
Franklin roosevelt to document the conditions under which people were living. This was back when we did not have television. We had radio, but a lot of places did not have electricity, so they could not listen to the radio broadcast to find out what was going on in other parts of the country. He was an economist from columbia university. He was the head of this project. In 1939, when kodak introduced color film, they sent him to have his photographers try out, see what they could do. Kodak was trying to establish a new market and product, and they wanted people who would know how to use it eff...