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“PBS chief executive Paula Kerger, after meetings with leaders including Congress Hispanic caucus, has promised suggested solutions as early as this week.
Burns 14-hour documentary is scheduled to premiere in September. PBS hopes it becomes as definitive a record of the World War II experience as Burns “The Civil War” was for that conflict, and as popular. Kerger has already described it as Burns greatest work.
Even though the film hasnt been seen publicly, its lack of Latino representation was sniffed out by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, a former newspaper reporter who runs an oral history project about Latino World War II veterans at the University of Texas.”
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