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Its humble beginnings,
in this ramshackle building, a dying daily.
:05:14
Kane's empire, in its glory...
:05:16
...held dominion over 37 newspapers,
two syndicates...
:05:21
...a radio network,
an empire upon an empire.
:05:26
The first of grocery stores, paper mills...
:05:30
...apartment buildings,
factories, forests, ocean liners.
:05:35
An empire through which for 50 years...
:05:39
...flowed in an unending stream...
:05:41
...the wealth of the Earth's
third richest gold mine.
:05:46
Famed in American legend
is the origin of the Kane fortune.
:05:49
How, to boarding housekeeper Mary Kane,
by a defaulting boarder, in 1868...
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...was left the supposedly worthless deed
to an abandoned mineshaft:
:05:59
The Colorado Lode.
:06:02
Fifty-seven years later,
before a congressional investigation...
:06:06
... Walter P. Thatcher,
grand old man of Wall Street...
:06:10
...for years chief target
of Kane papers' attacks on trusts...
:06:14
...recalls a journey he made as a youth.
:06:16
My firm had been appointed trustee
by Mrs.Kane...
:06:20
...for a large fortune she recently acquired.
:06:22
It was her wish that I take charge
of this boy, Charles Foster Kane.
:06:26
Chief, is it not, that on this occasion,
Charles Foster Kane...
:06:31
...personally attacked you after striking you
in the stomach with a sled?
:06:36
I shall read to the committee
a prepared statement...
:06:39
...which I have brought with me,
and then refuse to answer questions.
:06:45
Mr.Charles Foster Kane,
in every essence of his social beliefs...
:06:49
...and by the dangerous manner
he has persistently attacked...
:06:52
...American traditions of private property...
:06:54
...initiative and opportunity
for advancement...
:06:57
...is, in fact, nothing more or less
than a communist.