Photo: #Gordon Parks in a 2003 photo.

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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