scott shafer sat down earlier with burns to discuss why a speech from the civil war moved him to make film. first, a clip from the documentary. >> okay, guys, let's sit up straight in our chairs. let's get ready to start morning meeting. today we are introducing a tradition here at greenwood, studying and memorizing the gettysburg address. and in a lot of ways, it is a right of passage. >> this is one of the most famous speeches of all time, and this was, like, 200 or 300 years ago? so, even if you say it for, like, two minutes, it still means a lot. >> four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. >> well, ken burns, welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> your latest film weaves together the gettysburg address with the story of this school in vermont where boys who have learning disabilities memorize and recite the gettysburg address. what was it about that school that you found so compelling? >> i live across the river in wall poll, new hampshire, and a

next, scott shafer heres from the founder for an alternative perspective on stories from the year, butirst a sample of their work about the growing number of homeless in san jose. >> being out here humbled so many people. i grew up upper middle class. my dad is a pastor. i graduated with a 4.0. they don't want us to be here, but where do we go when we have nowhere to go? we are society's rejects, they're already looking down on us. that's pressure. then being homeless and trying to survive. not live but survive. >> raj, welcome. >> thank you. >> how is that clip an example of what you guys do? >> emblematic of not only what we do but where san jose and silicon valley is, our type of media, which is really relati relationship based. in some ways we have embedded reporters. we're able to access areas that traditional media can't it allows us to get these stories, intimate stories of what it means to be homeless in one of the richest cities in america. >> what is the goal? are you trying to change peoples minds? are you trying to influence policymakers? >> our goal is a humble and audacio