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:02:01
We caught on a tree,
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and my father-in-law
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lost his footing
and asked me to grab the girl.

:02:10
I grabber her, but slipped,
and the little girl went.

:02:16
Shortly after that
the little boy he went,

:02:21
and soon after that my wife,
father-in-law and the baby,

:02:27
they went too.
:02:29
The three children
that were lost,

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their ages, the oldest was six,
and the middle one was four

:02:38
and the baby was three.
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They haven't found the baby
and the oldest boy yet.

:02:45
The little girl we have
and that's all.

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To stop the devastation,
the waste,

:02:53
the loss of life caused by
the Tennessee River at flood,

:02:57
the Congress of the United States,
on May 18th 1933,

:03:01
created a vast new agency called
The Tennessee Valley Authority,

:03:06
or TVA,
:03:09
and authorised it to build
a series of dams along the river.

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At the same time,
the Tennessee Valley authority

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had to buy all the land
along the shore of the river

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and all its islands.
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Some people had lived on
this land for generations.

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Some people refused to sell,
under any persuasion whatsoever.

:03:34
Garthville.

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