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  1963-04-09, ABC, 24 min.

  • Bert T. Combs

  ABC Close-Up! 1960-
  
  "The Miners' Lament" focuses on the issues and arguments behind recent violence in the Eastern Kentucky coal fields. Views of bombed-out homes, impoverished towns and unemployed miners are shown.  Kentucky governor, Bert T. Combs discusses the friction between union and non-union miners and the recent United Mine Workers announcement that four hospitals, supported by its Welfare Fund, would soon be closed.