So are these historical hot days in the Midwest linked to global warming? Or is it a part of the highs and lows of a decades-long weather cycle? It's been since the late 1940s since Illinois has been this hot, records indicate. But in the 1930s, America endured the years-long Great Dust Bowl.
This "newsreel" like documentary chronicles the Dustbowl with interviews from primary sources that lived through the "Dirty Thirties." It's an excellent reminder of the Depression era about which John Steinback's "Grapes of Wrath" was written. The film was created as part of "The Twentieth Century" CBS series in the early 1950s with Walter Cronkite narrating.
This 1950's documentary had an agenda - and blames the 1930s Dust Bowl on something that makes it sounds like the global warming activists today. Can you figure it out?