Special Investigation: What Happened To New Orleans' Field Of Dreams? (Part 1)
The Lead
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🗓️ 2 October 2019
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A joint investigation from The Athletic and WVUE-TV in New Orleans reveals why a high school football stadium that was supposed to be a symbol of recovery after Hurricane Katrina was never completed. Celebrity athletes like Drew Brees and Saints head coach Sean Payton helped provide funding. The project captured the attention of President Obama, Anderson Cooper and news outlets across the country. But a decade later, there’s still no field -- and a million dollars is missing.
Part one of a special two-part investigation.
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| 0:00.0 | Today we have a special investigation about a football field that was supposed to be built |
| 0:11.5 | in New Orleans. |
| 0:13.6 | This was a project that was going to be a symbol of the city's recovery. |
| 0:17.6 | We are alive tonight from a place they call the 9th Ward Field of Dreams, a planned community |
| 0:22.8 | track and football field on the grounds of George Washington Carver High, a school that |
| 0:27.1 | was destroyed by Katrina. |
| 0:29.1 | Lots of powerful people were behind the project. |
| 0:32.2 | Drew Brees, Saintshead coach Sean Payton, even President Obama mentioned it at a speech |
| 0:38.1 | in New Orleans in 2010. |
| 0:40.1 | We'll see Brazilians and Hope exemplified by students at Carver High School who have |
| 0:48.4 | helped to raise more than a million dollars to build a new community track and football |
| 0:52.5 | field. |
| 0:53.5 | They're field of dreams for the 9th Ward. |
| 0:58.4 | And yet today there is no football field. |
| 1:01.6 | There's no stadium, just some weeds in an open field and nearly a million dollars missing. |
| 1:10.9 | The Athletics Jeff Duncan has been investigating the Marshall Falk Field of Dreams for years. |
| 1:16.6 | We'll speak with him about what went wrong, what's been lost, and who might be responsible. |
| 1:23.1 | From wondering on the athletic, I'm Kavitha Davidson. |
| 1:25.7 | I'm Anders Keltow. |
| 1:27.1 | It's Wednesday, October 2nd, and this is The Lead. |
| 1:31.1 | It felt like something great was happening. |
| 1:36.3 | There was just something about the emotion and the heart of the team. |
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