Senator Franklin Kury is a true 'Don Quixote'
On May 18, 1971, Pennsylvania’s voters by a four-to-one margin ratified what is now Article I, Section 27 of our state constitution– the ERA that provides in part: The people have a right to clean air, pure water, and to the preservation of the natural, scenic, historic and esthetic values of the environment. Franklin, over 50 years ago, saw the terrible carnage that the coal industry had visited on our state’s Streams. He conceived of creating an amendment to the constitution which would permanently provide environmental protection in Pennsyvlania. When we filmed Franklin, I not...
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