[Cid_Yama]

Very interesting.

http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews ... atrol-the#

[KaiserJeep]

I own a copy of the book Braeden mentioned towards the end of Part 1 of his interview. The complete title is Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. It is indeed, a horrifying and educational work. I happen to agree with Braeden, it should be mandatory reading in US high schools.



Unless you are over 60, you cannot recall the pre-Civil Rights USA. It was a very different place for blacks, not so much for the rest of us.

My Grandmother died in 2003. Among her possessions my aunt found some of the lynching postcards described in the book. The comments penciled on the reverse side make it clear that these were from her Oklahoma relatives, none of whom I ever met. Nor do we even know if she ever had these postcards read to her - my Grandmother only learned to read just before her death.

My aunt could not face up to the truth. She burned the postcards.

When I raised my daughter, we went and saw Schindler's List when she was 12 years old. Years afterwards, I showed her this book, and told her that we basically had our own Holocaust here in the USA, unsuspected by most of her generation. Some years from now, I will give her the book, and let her decide if she wants to have a similar discussion with her kids.

(Hans-Jörg Gudegast is Eric Braeden's birth name.)(Rat Patrol was a childhood favorite of mine.)