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01-29-2013, 08:50 AM | #1 |
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Henry Ford on PBS
Tuesday night PBS will be showing their American Experience program that will be profiling Henry Ford. Should be interesting and worth watching!
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01-29-2013, 11:44 AM | #2 |
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Looking forward to it.
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01-29-2013, 07:03 PM | #3 |
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Re: Henry Ford on PBS
Three hours and counting.....
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01-29-2013, 07:23 PM | #4 |
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Thanks for the heads - up. It'll be on PBS channel 13 in New York from 9 to 11 P.M.
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01-29-2013, 08:04 PM | #5 |
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Re: Henry Ford on PBS
Starts in 55 minutes in the Twin Cities. I'm watching Wonder Woman and Superman now.
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01-29-2013, 08:56 PM | #6 |
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01-29-2013, 09:01 PM | #7 |
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It is starting on MN TPT PBS
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01-29-2013, 10:15 PM | #8 |
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Watching it now. Best one i've seen so far.
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01-29-2013, 10:56 PM | #9 |
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Very good program. I just ordered the DVD off the PBS website to share with my club members.
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01-29-2013, 10:57 PM | #10 |
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I agree, One of the best ford programs I've watched.
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01-29-2013, 11:02 PM | #11 |
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An excellent portrayal of this psychologically flawed genius.
For obvious reasons, I was most fascinated to view the part about the Model "A" and his actual role in the Model "A" story.
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01-29-2013, 11:06 PM | #12 |
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Thanks for the revues guys, I'll be dialing in approximately an hour from now.
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01-29-2013, 11:12 PM | #13 |
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I just finished watching it.Great program! 1/2 way thru,the TV acted up & I had to go out & clean the wet snow off the sat-dish so I could see the rest of the show!He was a great industrialist,but he had a lousy personality & treated many people terribly,especialy his son Edsel.
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01-29-2013, 11:46 PM | #14 |
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Watched it tonight! GREAT TV PROGRAM WITH ALOT OF ORIGINAL FOOTAGE!!
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01-30-2013, 12:34 AM | #15 |
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Re: Henry Ford on PBS
I tuned-in around 9:15... right around the first Ford-Winton race, c. 1901.
It is a bittersweet story.... self-made American tinkerer-turned inventor who wants to make the world a better place, and in the process begins to (unintentionally) destroy the world he loves ( 19th Century rural America )... As a child, I was a voracious reader, and loved to read biographies of historical figures; my favorites were people like Ben Franklin, Abe Lincoln, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and so-on... As an inventor/industrialist and social champion, Ford was in the ascendent between 1893 and 1916... and then he went into a sad, dark decline... And no one suffered more than Edsel and Clara... A long, sad end to such a great beginning... Last edited by Special Coupe Frank; 01-30-2013 at 08:30 AM. |
01-30-2013, 03:51 AM | #16 |
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Watched the WHOLE thing, went to the garage, saw the coupe, and a sorta' sad, confusing, feeling went through my head. It'll take me a week or so to sort out this story in my head. Bill W.
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01-30-2013, 07:02 AM | #17 |
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For the best book ever written on Henry Ford and Ford Motor Company, read, "My Forty Years with Ford" by Charles Sorensen. I have literally read the book five or six times. Everything you saw on PBS and more is in this book. Sorensen was the heart and soul of Ford Motors and he tells it likes it is. It is still in print and available from Amazon, etc. Let me know what you think of the book after you have read it - two or three times.
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I am sure "Cast-Iron Charlie" had a very unique perspective on Ford and old Henry... It is a shame how the old man "froze-out" those who were "no longer needed" - Childe Harold Wills, William Knudsen, Sorenson, etc... Old Henry was surely a man of paradoxes... SC Frank |
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01-30-2013, 08:20 AM | #19 |
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Did I miss anything said on EVANGELINE DAHLINGER, his personal secretary, whom I believe Henry built an adjoining mansion for her and her "Husband" his chauffer, and supposedly had secret passages to her bed room and a son who claims old Henry was his father?
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01-30-2013, 08:29 AM | #20 |
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Didn't see / hear a peep about it. I tuned-in right around the famous race against Alexander Winton in 1901 (?), so I saw coverage of the time-period of the supposed Dahlinger dalliance...
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