CSPAN3 Reel America Island Of Hope Island Of Tears - 1989 February 4, 2018
Narrator over 12 million men, women, and children passed this way, passed through rooms and corridors haunted with a special stillness which remains only in places once noisy with human life. Here they bought tickets for a thousand places in america. Here they traded their drachmas, their liras, and their rubles, for dollars. Here they sang their First American songs, experienced their First American christmas, and hanukkah. Here they waited to be given permission to pass over to the new land. Tens of millions of us have relatives who came this way, sat in this room, part of the largest human ...