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Gordon Parks in a 2003 photo. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Getty Images)
Gordon Parks tells his remarkable life story
Broadcast: Midday, 03/09/2006, 11:06 a.m.
In this 1996 speech from the Westminster Town Hall Forum, the late filmmaker, photographer, writer and composer Gordon Parks explains how he went from taking pictures in a St. Paul clothing store to becoming the first African-American to produce and direct a major Hollywood movie.
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