The Crash of 1929

Based on eight years of continued prosperity, presidents and economists alike confidently predicted that America would soon enter a time when there would be no more poverty, no more depressions -- a "New Era" when everyone could be rich. But when reality finally struck, the consequences of such unbound optimism shocked the world.

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  Philip Bosco

  Narrator
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  Thomas A. Edison

  Self (archive footage)
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  Henry Ford

  Self (archive footage)
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  Herbert Hoover

  Self (archive footage)
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  John Kenneth Galbraith
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  J. P. Morgan

  Self (archive footage)
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  William Howard Taft

  Self (archive footage)
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  Calvin Coolidge

  Self (archive footage)