1964 SPECIAL REPORT: "DEPRESSED AREA USA"

The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) reports on Appalachian statistics such as poverty, income, and employment. ... The state with the worst poverty rate in the region is Kentucky with a 25.4% rate in the Appalachian portion versus 18.9% rate for the rest of the state.
#1964
#poverty
#appalachia
#kentucky

[@TidoTee]

That WAZZE DIGITAL in the middle of the screen is very irritating.

[@andrewdaley5480]

So are people breaking copywrite laws. 🇬🇧👍

[@12yearssober]

The eastern Kentucky areas of the Appalachians were by far the poorest areas of the country at that time. It is still a poor area today. With that said it has some of most natural beauty of any area I’ve ever seen. The people are great too. Some of the strongest hardest working people you will ever know are from there. I vacation once a year at Jenny Wiley State Park in Prestonsburg Kentucky. If you’re ever interested in a great place to rent a cabin and enjoy fishing there isn’t a better place!!!

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

Is Slick Willie Clinton going down in smoke with Jizzlaine?

[@richardpodnar5039]

Having chosen West Virginia and the Appalachian region as my new place to live, I can say that the pride which Appalachian people generally have is still intact nowadays: hearty people who don't want to feel beaten down and who are willing to work, and work hard instead of accepting a handout. And friendly, hospitable and reverent to a fault!😀They do this in spite of so much adversity.

[@shawnmartin6434]

Welcome to WestVirginia my friend

[@3atitup]

Just started watching but crazy I came across this. I worked for the Census last summer and travelled to help in Clay County, KY. I heard, not sure if its true, it is the poorest county in the U.S. City poor is nothing like country poor. People were living in groups of like 30 ppl in each holler in trailers, garages, 20 miles from a store, some with no electricity or running water. "Hollers" are one lane dead end gravel roads with creeks (basically ditches) on either side so you better pay attention. So many people lived in trailers because a family will own a peice of property and drop as many trailers as they want/ can on it. Addresses were nonexistent in many cases, making it hard to do my paperwork counting housing units. In some cases, they built their own little bridges across the creeks (making driveways) of wood planks, pipes with gravel overtop, anything. I was scared to pull my car across many of them but if you don't you are blocking the "road". Community is so important because they need each other. Everyone was friendly and helpful even to a stranger from the government like I was. I was talking back then about returning and making a documentary because many dont know this side of America exists (I didnt). We could learn something about community from them. Life is different when you need each other to survive. Edit: 1st hotel the gov put me in was in Manchester, thats the area I was working, but hotel internet service was too bad we couldn't do our work so they moved us to Lexington and we had a 40 minute drive each way after that.

[@couleuredgirl6314]

Love this ❤️I learned about hollers when I lived in Louisville. City folk have no clue how to survive survive like these good people. Many of them don’t want to leave either. That’s their home.

[@rocketdog2723]

i know an old guy from kentucky thats filthy rich "mitch mconnell" or as i like to call him rich mitch

[@jeep19]

@@rocketdog2723 is that the same as 'moscow mitch... shame!

[@rocketdog2723]

@@jeep19 crazy thing is that he keeps getting voted in , easily

[@Creeker859]

@@jeep19 bro Vladimir Putin hates Mitch. He’s on the list of people not allowed to visit Russia. Mitch works for China, his wife is a member of the Chinese Communist Party.

[@Valedadude]

You have the best videos on KZbin. I love them all. I know most of your fans started watching because of the hood videos. But these ones here show your real range of culture genres. I give you props!!!! Many props!!

[@renep2220]

I really enjoyed this video. My grandmother was raised in that area on a small farm. I always enjoyed listening to her stories. Thank you!

[@angelamartin2811]

I love history especially Appalachia because my family is from there. But I am so saddened that such a gem in history has words Wazee Digital plastered across the center making it hard to take its just so distracting I understand copy rights but having the words in the corner would’ve made better since.

[@debpage143]

It'd be great if you'd get the WAZEE digital and the symbol off of the middle if the screen! It's way too distracting.

[@dachicagoan8185]

It's still bad in that area. Now it's going through an opioid epidemic.

[@blakesalmons6113]

As well as the rest of the country. But you're right, Appalachia is ground zero for the OxyContin (now heroin/fentanyl) epidemic. Sad

[@theblacksheep5226]

I've heard in lots of families three generations hooked on opioids and many drink moonshine on top of that.

[@jeep19]

@@blakesalmons6113 not sad at all, no different than the "crack epidemic", karma is a bit@h! The government legislated tougher prison time, fed & state on blk/brn folks, instead of giving them treatment! White America basically said GD those blk/brn criminals, but you want me to feel sorry for white people caught up in this deadly opioid crisis?!

[@thomaskennedy2942]

The video game epidemic I'd even worse!

[@rocketdog2723]

how can this time capsule only have 1,454 views

[@eunicestone838]

We would have starved to death if not for food stamps and commodities when I grew up in the 1960-75. I left home at 15 and went to Chicago and got a job on the factory. There is nothing there but family farms, logging, coal mines. It's still rough there. I'm from Crum(Wayne county) WV.

[@patricianapier5860]

I too am from Wayne County,Wva. I left when i was 19 to join the military! when i left home,my Dad couldn't find work,He and i would cut logs just to put some food on the table!! and yes,it is still hard there!! the same poverty that was there is still there after all these years!! The East Lynn Dam never done anything to alleciate poverty!!! today i am 76 and God has blessed me abundantly!!!--david.

[@mariekatherine5238]

Nothing has really changed. If anything, it’s poorer and less populated. There’s less work, more welfare.

[@janetstout8931]

Just like a lot of certain areas in big cities.

[@melviadinsmore38]

Someone said thus area was never that poor that they lived here. Well i was born and raisedin SW Vajust one mile from Ky border of Harlan, Ky. In the 1960's people in this area wete starving to death. My dad and mom gave food from our garden to neighbors so they wouldnt starve. Ive seen many families that didnt have clothes much less shoes or foid. We would drive every Sunday to my g- grandmothers house in Holmes Mill ,Ky about 5-10 miles from our coal mining camp in Va and pass kids playing in their yard naked and no shoes, their hair a mess and no grass around their houses. I would ask my mom why rhey were naked and she would say because they are poor. I couldnt really understand because we were poor but always had clothes( although many were hand me downs) and we had shoes and food. Many children i went to school with had patents that couldnt read or write so school was very difficult for them all around. All my people from generations far back as i could go had 9th and 10th grade education and a few were teachers, but also hard workers and raised hogs, cows, chickens and gardens and canned food. The women sewed clothes and made quilts. We were taught to live and serve the Lord. Our old toys at Christmas were gathered up and taken to Ky so those kids would get something for Christmas. I wasn't too pleased to have to give up my dolls every year but i knew i had to for those who would not get visited by Santa. I was always told Santa was bringing me a new doll and giving my old dolls to the poor kids. Anyone who says this isnt so has not sewn what i saw growing up.

[@melviadinsmore38]

Excuse all the mistakes. My phone is not big and my fingers and eyesight could use some help. This looks like I don't have good Grammer and I can't spell but auto correct is worse than I am. Lol😂

[@melviadinsmore38]

Most houses did not have running water and outside toilets. Only some of the coal camps on the VA side had running water, water heaters and indoor bathroom. Luckily I grew up in a camp that did have them but neither of my parents had that convenience growing up.

[@michellehitt1976]

I love reading your stories. Have you thought about writing it all down? I'm sure your kin folk would love to read about your growing up years.😊

[@keithe.bilitsky833]

As sh*try as things are for me, it could always be worse. I need to count my blessings. At least l had a good education, and a good chance before l became disabled.

[@couleuredgirl6314]

Hugs 🫂

[@blakesalmons6113]

It's all about perspective and you, my good sir have a great one! Hope things get better for you

[@keithe.bilitsky833]

@@blakesalmons6113 Thank you for the kind words.

[@proudmarinemomma827]

Yes things can always be worse. I could be on disability but vow not to until my body completely quits on me. I’m still working and blessed immensely. You have a good outlook on life and grateful for an education etc.. we just have to keep on, getting on. God bless!

[@zacharyscott2250]

The more things change, the more they stay the same... Still battling Appalachian poverty all these years later and hard to see it ever stopping. It's just not an economically friendly area. You have to wonder at what point many of these communities will finally just die.

[@proudmarinemomma827]

The spoiled, entitled people today, need to know what truly being in need is like. Most are overweight, don’t wanna work and mooch off of everyone & cry when they want folks to feel sorry for them. These people want to work and struggle for everything. They are kind and respectful and help one another.

[@butchgriggs6325]

Trump will bring back coal...lol

[@celerinojasso4180]

No other president but LBJ visited the area to launch the Great society programs to help them and other parts of the country he did what other Presidents didn't do or bothered to do.God bless LBJ.

[@Creeker859]

Yea but LBJ ruined the area. He flooded them with Welfare and took the jobs away. He made them slaves. He also encouraged single motherhood in black neighborhoods and pushed drugs into those areas. He was a dirt bag.

[@eunicestone838]

John &Bobby Kennedy visited in the 60s. It's rumoured that every home had a picture of Jesus Christ and one of JFK. Most homes also have a tri-folded flag from one of the wars. A proud, patriotic, religious country.

[@therealhousewifeofballtown]

@@eunicestone838they still do , at least the older folks . They have Jesus and President Kennedy on the wall and the black families have a picture of Martin Luther King as well . I’ve seen it in many homes here in Ky . I’ve lived here all my life and I can’t imagine being anywhere else . Ky is such a beautiful state and the people are strong and proud . My husband and I butcher our own meat ( cows , hogs , chickens ) and we can all summer to have food through the winter . We may not have much but we make do with what we have and we are self sufficient. There’s such a good feeling you get providing for yourself and your family . Those freezers full of meat and shelves full of vegetables, pickles , jams are so beautiful.

[@wilsonmccarty7203]

Robert Kennedy jr did tho

[@rubymaple1385]

Is the up here wazoo video thing necessary in the middle of the picture really

[@thatvalensteingirl]

Watermarks help prevent theft

[@geraldinepetress3766]

My grandparents my mom parents were from the mountains of Kentucky, they were married in a cornfield, grandma was 16 grandpa was 18. They had 12 children one died as a baby his name was Glenn. My mom was born in Virginia a small coal mining town. My grandpa and all my uncles worked in the mines. My grandpa left the mines early he was having some breathing problems never went back. My uncles continued further. Grandpa became a house painter and made real good money, they finally moved and went to Portsmouth Virginia where I was born. My mom met my dad at one of the Navy shop dances and he was in the Navy and was from Chicago. They got married in January 1954 and had me in September 1955. They were already living in Chicago but my mom had already paid for the hospital and doctor and wanted to have me in Virginia close to grandma and grandpa so pop took some time off from Admiral TV to take her to Virginia a month before I was born. Mom vowed not to raise her kids in the south and I'm happy she didn't, I consider my self a Chicagoan and proud to say that's my home.

[@Creeker859]

Chicago is a shit hole, you’re missing out

[@geraldinepetress3766]

@@Creeker859 your an asshole Chicago is the best

[@Creeker859]

@@geraldinepetress3766 lol good luck up there. I’ve seen 3rd world countries nicer than Chiraq

[@gabrielledewilde2120]

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[@marc8h726]

This song is horrible.

[@Mark-yb1sp]

Good job, my friend. You just got a new subscriber. 👍🏻🇺🇸

[@user-lz6dm5lk9y]

That "watermark," for want of a better descriptor, is bloody annoying!!

[@chohmann1485]

Can’t enjoy the video for the big WAZEE DIGITAL smacked in the middle

[@eleanorosgood7665]

But why keeping children u can’t take care of?

[@Jyroson]

My senior paper for my undergraduate is covering the ARC and the conditions in Appalachia. I am both happy to find this source, and equally saddened to hear the voices.

[@roi0672]

As someone from Kentucky/Appalachia, it’s never been that poor. It’s never been rich, but that’s not important to us. Most people have stereotypes about us, saying we’re “inbreed” or “poor” or even “shoeless”. The people who recorded this chose the people in the area who are very poor, not showing the other side. This created many stereotypes that still affect us to this day.

[@jeep19]

Y'all are all those things, but they were being nice, y'all have more babies than you can afford. They left off the fact that most in these parts are racist AF! Not to mention, voted for trump, who will never help y'all, but he's white, so I get it 😉

[@deplorablecovfefe9489]

We never locked doors, any doors before 1968. Seems so strange not to now.

[@dales.mcintire4087]

But . Yet in reality money doesn't buy happiness sure Yu have to have it to eat. To live to pay bills but yet rich people just cause they are rich . Still have the same problems as poorer people still get sick still have same emotions. But to be poor doesn't have to mean yur not happy. Yu literally work Yu life away to live in this world and doing that just to have money to live and obtain what Yu think makes Yu happy . Yu miss out on so many things that are natural god given. When Yu think about dying. And not being able to spend no more time with loved ones. That's the main reason we don't wanna die because of the love we have for our loved ones. It's not what we bought or the 250 tho dollar house we have . But yet we spend most our time working to obtain things we think makes us happy

[@donnamays24]

Would be nice if the copy mark wasn’t taking up the entire center of the screen

[@tabithahardin3451]

I, my mother ,my grandparents, and generations back grew up in Eastern Kentucky and I can tell you now The changes they made were for a very short time. And it's falling back to nothing. We all fled years ago in the '80s '90s and some in the early 2000s. Nobody I'm related to lives back in those mountains anymore. It's sad because it is quite beautiful. But none of those programs really helped there's major water issues no jobs high unemployment and a lot of food stamps and handouts still to this day.

[@meinkorper2631]

As a U.S. Marine, Oswald had a CIA security clearance for his work at the U-2 spy plane base in Atsugi, Japan. Atsugi Naval Air Base was the CIA's Far East headquarters and the site of one of their MK ULTRA labs. Oswald was a test subject. He learned to speak Russian from sleep teaching recordings. Eventually, he left the Marines with a hardship discharge due to his mother's failing health. Without apparent means of support, he then purchased a ticket on a luxury steamship bound for Russia where he would live and work for about thirty months. While in Minsk, Oswald was hospitalized for three weeks during which time he met and married Marina Nikolaevna Prusakova; the daughter (some say niece) of Colonel Ilya Vasilyevich Prusakova, a high ranking officer in the KGB (the Russian equivalent of the CIA). Oswald returned to the United States and, along with his Russian bride, settled in Dallas, Texas. His military discharge was changed to dishonorable but, at about the same time, the State Department granted him a large loan. Oswald associated with members of the China Lobby (a known CIA front operation) and the Fair Play for Cuba Committee. He applied for a passport and, despite his suspicious past, he received his visa in an unprecedented 24 hours. He then traveled to Mexico City where he was accompanied by two CIA agents assigned to him by their station chief Howard Hunt. Oswald was involved with a variety of characters, a few of whom are described in the following published article. ...Lee and Marina settled in Texas and soon took up with an odd assortment of friends, none more unusual than George De Mohrenschildt. Born a Russian count before the revolution, De Mohrenschildt thrived in a world of political shadows, appearing at various times to be working for Polish intelligence, the Nazis, the French Resistance, the British, the Americans, the Rockefellers -- a man of many masks. By 1962, he was calling himself a geologist and a friend to the Oswalds. In April 1963, Oswald moved to New Orleans, where his social circle--in view of his alleged Marxist sympathies--was even stranger than in Dallas. There he met Carlos Bringuier, an anti-Castro Cuban exile with CIA connections. Oswald first sought to work for Bringuier, then appeared to be working against him. Eventually, the two engaged in a well-publicized street brawl and then a debate about Cuba on New Orleans radio. Joining Oswald and Bringuier in the debate was Ed Butler, a right-wing propagandist for the Information Council for the Americas (INCA), a group that later sold LP's of the debate as part of its anti-communist crusade. The president of INCA was Dr. Alton Ochsner, described as a consultant to the air force on "the medical side of subversive matters." The directorships of Bringuier's anti-Castro group and Ochsner's INCA included the owners of the Reily Coffee Company, where Oswald, the man being denounced by both organizations as a communist, had recently been on the payroll. By far the strangest bird to intersect Oswald's orbit was David Ferrie. Eccentric in behavior belief and appearance, Ferrie had been an Eastern Airlines pilot until he was arrested for a "crime against nature" with a sixteen-year-old boy. He was a priest in the Orthodox Old Catholic Church, a bizarre sect engaging in animal sacrifice and occult rituals. Ferrie had no hair on his body... and made a striking, if note shocking impression...Although the Oswald- Ferrie relationship, is well-proved, it is unclear when it began. The House Assassinations Committee suggested that the two young men may have met as early as 1956 in New Orleans, when young Lee was a cadet in a Civil Air Patrol headed by Ferrie. By the time of the 1963 radio debate, Oswald and Ferrie were well acquainted. A right-winger who hated Kennedy, Ferrie was active in paramilitary operations against Castro and claimed to have flown in the CIA-sponsored Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961. Ferrie was also a hypnotist and fancied himself a biochemist. He claimed to have created drugs that caused cancer (something the CIA was also secretly developing) or caused heart attacks indistinguishable from natural death (another CIA endeavor), as well as aphrodisiacs and amnesia-inducing drugs... Many attributed his hairless condition to a chemistry experiment gone awry.[55] Over twenty years later, researchers are left to wonder if Oswald was a "Manchurian Candidate," brainwashed by the CIA or the KGB to assassinate President Kennedy. Much has been published on Oswald's possible involvement in a conspiracy and the reality of the events occurring after the assassination underscores and even confirms the theory. George De Mohrenschildt, intelligence agent and friend of Oswald, died from an "apparent suicide" two hours after being interviewed by Edward Epstein for his book entitled, Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald. In a like manner, David Ferrie was murdered so soon after being interviewed by an investigative reporter, that the coroner placed the approximate time of death, not after , but during the interview. These two deaths were not the exception, but the rule. Of the thirty-one eyewitnesses to Kennedy's assassination who stepped forward to testify, eighteen were dead within three years -- six from gunfire, three from car accidents, three from heart attacks, two from suicides, one from a slit throat, one from a karate chop to the neck and two from reported natural causes. The Sunday Times (London) later reported that the mathematical odds of such deaths occurring without there being a conspiracy were one hundred thousand trillion to one. Books: The Plot Against The Church by Maurice Pinay.///The Plot Against Christianity by Elizabeth Dilling.///Freemasonry And The Antichristian Movement by Cahill.///American Freemasonry And Catholic Education by Kenney.///The War Of Antichrist With The Church And Christian Civilization by Dillon.///Onward Christian Soldiers by Donald Day.///The Red Network by Elizabeth Dilling.///The Beasts Of The Apocalypse by Olivia O'Grady.///The World Conquerors by Louise Marshalko.///The Sign Of The Scorpion by Yuri Lina.///Architects Of Deception by Yuri Lina./// Dark Alliance by Gary Webb.///Murder By Injection by Eustace Mullins.///The Terror Of Pediatric Medicine by Dr Sircus.///

[@AshGrg2007]

Its still pretty much a 3rd world like Detroit in the Appalachia. Not even kidding, I work for "the charity starts at home" organisation and I have been posted there many times. They just had the iphone 5 released there (just using iphone releases as a measurement of modernity, I personally hate apple)....

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

$1800 a year fckng Brutal

[@HezakyaNewz]

Damn...I can make that in a week if I do a overtime shift

[@blakesalmons6113]

@@HezakyaNewz What kind of work do you do?

[@HezakyaNewz]

@@blakesalmons6113 Amazon...for now I guess

[@blakesalmons6113]

@@HezakyaNewz I feel ya. At least you got your YT side hustle. Hope its at least profitable for ya

[@blakesalmons6113]

@@HezakyaNewz Bruh I didn't see your comment about being demonitized when I wrote that. I'm poor af bu tf I sent you a lil something. Hope it helps

[@normanweimer8333]

God Bless 🕊️🍀👏🤲✨🦋😘🫂🙌🦋🙌🕊️♥️💗💕🦋🐞💜💙🙏❤️🙏

[@donnydonnybrook8131]

14:30 8 children and has to much pride to be on welfare. Someone should have taught him how to pullout.

[@janetstout8931]

Maybe your parents should have done the same.

[@judyshepard1425]

Pull out fails

[@rayjeanturner9077]

Wait a min. I just seen a store where it said dollar store, tell me what's that and was it like the dollar tree today?lol

[@eunicestone838]

It's not a 1$ store. It's just called that. There were also 5-10¢ stores also.

[@redactedredacted3675]

Location, Location, Location. It matters where you're born.

[@happycustomer1822]

Algorithm helped 😀👍🏻🇺🇸

[@hto5237]

Has anyone else noticed that a lot of people in the past seemed to have had bigger, longer heads and foreheads?

[@firecracker187]

Not until right now! Lol

[@normawilson7941]

😂

[@pamelaworley8851]

This is what black parents told themin to. Especially in Mississippi and other southern states. That's why the big migration in the north

[@Creeker859]

They call I75 the hillbilly highway because a lot of mountain folk moved to Cincinnati and Detroit

[@ameliawhite2404]

Can't watch with writing on it. It's distracting.

[@kennethsummers1582]

People should Not have had 6 or 10 kids.If you cant feed them.

[@blakesalmons6113]

More kids= more hands to work on the farm. Most of these people lived off the land

[@CoolPonies]

Also...no birth control

[@janetstout8931]

Birth control wasn't available until the late 60's and even then those people couldn't afford it. It's easy telling someone else how to live their life when you have never been in that situation.

[@Creeker859]

More kids = more hands to harvest. You needed kids. Kids are free labor. Rural folk have way more kids, money has nothing to do with it, nor should it. I had 5 kids by 25 and we lived below the poverty line for a long time.

[@eunicestone838]

I was pregnant at 16. I had heard of birth control but no one discussed it the way it is now. Both my girls were placed on birth control as soon as I realized they were seriously interested in boys. I never took a chance. People said.. " that's like saying it's ok to have sex before marriage ". I said.. nope... That's saying I'm not raising a bunch of grandchildren. Both my girls were 19 when they got pregnant.