Boettiger Family at Mercer Island, Wa; Hyde Park, NY and Sun Valley

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This footage is priceless. It's one thing to see the old newsreel footage, where everybody is presumably on their best behavior. To see home movies, where they let their hair down (so to speak) and clown for the camera, acting like regular PEOPLE, is great. It makes them more "human" and less like the idealized people you read about in history books.

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These were happier times for the family. John Boettiger threw himself off a New York rooftop in 1950 after a severe bout of depression.