but it wasn't until his seventh that america returned ken burns affection. he civil war" was seen by 39 million viewers-- an 11-hour epic that immortalized a love letter and a waltz. >> burns: the ashokan farewell. >> pelley: the fiddle tune-- >> burns: the fiddle tune-- >> pelley: --that you can never get out of your head years later. >> burns: "na-da-di-da-da-da- dum." >> pelley: the lament seemed written as a score for the letter union soldier sullivan ballou wrote his wife a week before his death. >> i shall always be with you in the brightest day, and the darkest night always, always, and when the soft breeze fans your cheek it shall be my breath, or the cool air your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by. >> burns: i think every man wishes he could say those words to the woman he loves, and every woman wishes that her man could say that. that may be our shot. >> pelley: burns' films are a letter to the country he loves but not out of blind devotion. his is the affection that endures after confronting america's founding flaw. >> we hold thes

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ken burns. >> chris is overwhelmed. >> also, because that was back in the day when fall was not particularly busy. right? your season was mostly the summer. burns was in the fall so they did not have people staffed to observe that visitation, which is a good problem to have. it is difficult. >> but i would say to that point is what we are seeing at parks like gettysburg is this evolution in visitation, where visitations are somewhat on a downward trajectory, it is not as calamitous as some people make it out to be, but what is more interesting is patterns of visitation are changing. on a normal day in the summer, little round top is busy. on a normal day in october, little round top is incredibly busy. it is incredibly busy. that idea of the summer time visitation is when people go to parks, that is true, but we get a ton of people in the fall now. >> [indiscernible] >> yeah. >> they were all over the place. >> they still are. we can talk about that too. the effect that has had on the little round top is increased visitation. ,eople want to go to the hill they want to go to the maine monumen

i mean it's been from ken burns to henry louis gates, jr. really, the list goes on and on.i, i'm bill young, here with my friend alice fers d we're asking you to take this short break to just take a momen i do something veortant. and that is to support this, your local pbs station. alice: and when you do, we would love to send you the dvd of this informive, provocative documentary for you to enjoy over and over again. or maybe y a want to send it riend or family member so they can experience this inspirational documentary of a timeless story only this time told from a scientific standpoint with insightful analysis from scholars,rians and religious experts. it's our way saying thanks for your pport. bill: now if you've already made that call, thank you! because really, yopuare the public iic television. sometimes i ink we all forget that. because you ta the time and make your contribution. alice: so now we invite you to join the family. look at the bottom of your screen. there is a number, pick up your phone and make the call. or perhaps you prefer to give online. no worries

burns does take the ride. he agrees to buy two million shares of facebook stock and wires $2.8 million to ken dennis -- aka, troy does not know is that tim burns is a perfect victim because burns has a secret. phillips: tim burns is in a difficult position himself. he's in a desperate situation. he had been embezzling money from his clients. he needed to repay this money and he also wanted to make money for himself. narrator: and that is why it is easy for stratos to continually up the ante -- to promise tim burns more shares and demand more money. nystrom: he bit so hard on this story, he literally threw the handle after the axe, and ultimately gave ken dennis/troy stratos the entire $11.25 million. narrator: and that money is slipping through troy stratos' hands and disappearing into gambling losses in las vegas, plastic surgery for stratos, five new cars, and some very nice clothes. nystrom: by the time that troy stratos had conned tim burns, he was spending, on average, $1 million a month. narrator: not bad for a guy who was completely broke less than a year ago. meanwhile, private detective bill branscum is

burn down american cities. gillian: tim, i want to get your take on the lawsuits going on, take a listen to ken starr on fox newshis morning. >> our system is designed to check, let's check it out, the united states we allow the jury to hear all the evidence and that is what is happening right now. don't rush to judgment, it's important especially given the facts that so many tens of americans feel right now, disenfranchised, let's get the facts and, allow the litigation to run its course. gillian: let's allow the litigation to run its course, rule of law is something all americans can get behind. we all went to see the way the lawsuits shakeout but of course, the but here is, what i haven't heard anyone asked the campaign, why the president can't move forward with these lawsuits and still allows the incoming biden team access to classified briefings, let's give it the benefit of the doubt, in the event that the biden transition teams becomes a meditation on generate 20 if they can hit the ground running and be able to protect the homeland, isn't that something that president trump and the campaign want? >> must