Citizen Kane
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:07:01
That same month in Union Square....
:07:03
The words "Charles Foster Kane"...
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...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...

:07:38
...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...
:07:55
...no public issue
on which Kane papers took no stand.

:08:00
No public man whom Kane himself
did not support or denounce.

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Often support, then denounce.
:08:18
Twice married, twice divorced.
:08:22
First to a president's niece...
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...Emily Norton, who left him in 1916.
:08:28
Died 1918 in a motor accident
with their son.

:08:34
Sixteen years after his first marriage...
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...two weeks after his first divorce...
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...Kane married Susan Alexander...
:08:41
...singer, at the Town Hall
in Trenton, New Jersey.

:08:45
For wife two,
one-time opera-singing Susan Alexander...

:08:51
...Kane built
Chicago's Municipal Opera House.

:08:54
Cost: $3 million.
:08:56
Conceived for Susan Alexander Kane,
half-finished before she divorced him...


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