:06:02
Fifty-seven years later,
before a congressional investigation...
:06:06
... Walter P. Thatcher,
grand old man of Wall Street...
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...for years chief target
of Kane papers' attacks on trusts...
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...recalls a journey he made as a youth.
:06:16
My firm had been appointed trustee
by Mrs.Kane...
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...for a large fortune she recently acquired.
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It was her wish that I take charge
of this boy, Charles Foster Kane.
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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?
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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.
:07:01
That same month in Union Square....
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The words "Charles Foster Kane"...
:07:06
...are a menace
to every workingman in this land.
:07:10
He is today what he has always been
and always will be: a fascist.
:07:16
And still another opinion....
:07:35
Kane urged his country's entry
into one war...
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...opposed participation in another.
:07:41
Won the election
to one American president at least.
:07:45
Spoke for millions of Americans.
:07:49
Was hated by as many more.
:07:52
For 40 years appeared in Kane newsprint...
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...no public issue
on which Kane papers took no stand.