Watch: President Roosevelt Visits Dust Bowl North Dakota

In the latest historical installment from Troy Larson and Terry Hinnenkamp, the photographers behind the Ghosts of North Dakota, you see a picture of North Dakota during the dust bowl era. The video compiles the pictures of FSA photographer Arthur Rothstein with the audio from President Roosevelt’s 1936 fireside chat about what he saw when visited the great plains during the height of the great depression and the dirty thirties. Watch it below.

image: by Arthur Rothstein

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