Ken Burns: "Jackie Robinson is a true, authentic hero because he is complex."
Edge of Sports
Dave Zirin / The Nation
4.8 • 619 Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2016
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:19.3 | Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast. I'm Dave Ziron. Our guest this week is the most |
| 0:24.3 | acclaimed historical documentary filmmaker we have. He did the Civil War, baseball, jazz, |
| 0:31.4 | the Central Park Five, and just two years ago, the Roosevelt's. And, his latest, four hours, over two nights, |
| 0:39.0 | debuting on April 11th on PBS. |
| 0:41.4 | It's called Jackie Robinson. |
| 0:43.3 | The filmmaker's name is Ken Burns. |
| 0:49.6 | If I had a room jammed with trophies, awards, and citations, and a child of mine came into |
| 0:57.9 | that room and asked what I had done in defense of black people and decent whites fighting |
| 1:04.2 | for freedom. |
| 1:06.7 | And if I had to tell that child had kept quiet, that I had been timid, I would have to mark |
| 1:13.8 | myself a total failure in the whole business of living. |
| 1:19.9 | Jackie Robinson. |
| 1:20.9 | So you were born in Brooklyn in 1953. |
| 1:24.6 | What did you hear about Jackie Robinson growing up? |
| 1:27.1 | I was actually physically born in Brooklyn at King's County Hospital. What did you hear about Jackie Robinson growing up? |
| 1:31.0 | I was actually physically born in Brooklyn at Kings County Hospital. |
| 1:32.8 | My parents lived on the Upper West Side. |
| 1:36.1 | My mom worked at Kings County Hospital in the laboratory. |
| 1:37.1 | She was a biologist. |
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