Post by Herb on Aug 25, 2008 11:09:51 GMT -5
Pardon me for being late, but I just caught the Discovery Channels 2002 (?) Unsolved History program on the Alamo. Participants included: Hardin, Dimmick, Ivey, Crisp, Huffines, Lindley and Groneman. I also believe Bearden and Edmondson were portraying Crockett and Bowie. With the exception of Jake discussing and building a computer model of the Alamo in 1836, the show mainly dealt with the DLP controversy. The show seemed especially well done, despite the typical problem of all these shows of repeating half of what was previously said after each commercial break.
Among, the more interesting, to me, segments was one of "dimbo33" finding an abandoned village and perhaps a fork in the road referred to by DLP (also I now know what Gregg looks like)! The segment was too brief, and it would have been interesting to find out if anything more was found.
Jim Crisp made an interesting comment, somewhat similar to one he made at "alamojoan's" about how hard it is to prove anything conclusively in history. But, "doc" made the definitive comment of the show, when he talked at the end of the emotional involvement people have with the story - and how that emotionalism colors our/their beliefs.
The narrator concluded with an interesting comment about myths, legends, and history. This is a topic, I hope to one day get to discuss with Jim Crisp or "doc". I was somewhat of a key participant in a pretty well documented historic event, while I was in the Army. It has since been written about in at least three books, but yet the historical accounts are wrong - there is an oral legend that is in fact the truth, and there is a Hollywood version that is pure myth.
We generally give a lot more weight to primary accounts, written by participants or witnesses to the facts - then oral legends written down at a latter time, but yet in this particular case, I know the opposite is in fact, true, and I'm sure this is not the only case.
Anyway, if you haven't seen it, this is a fairly good program and is running this week on the Discovery Channels.
Among, the more interesting, to me, segments was one of "dimbo33" finding an abandoned village and perhaps a fork in the road referred to by DLP (also I now know what Gregg looks like)! The segment was too brief, and it would have been interesting to find out if anything more was found.
Jim Crisp made an interesting comment, somewhat similar to one he made at "alamojoan's" about how hard it is to prove anything conclusively in history. But, "doc" made the definitive comment of the show, when he talked at the end of the emotional involvement people have with the story - and how that emotionalism colors our/their beliefs.
The narrator concluded with an interesting comment about myths, legends, and history. This is a topic, I hope to one day get to discuss with Jim Crisp or "doc". I was somewhat of a key participant in a pretty well documented historic event, while I was in the Army. It has since been written about in at least three books, but yet the historical accounts are wrong - there is an oral legend that is in fact the truth, and there is a Hollywood version that is pure myth.
We generally give a lot more weight to primary accounts, written by participants or witnesses to the facts - then oral legends written down at a latter time, but yet in this particular case, I know the opposite is in fact, true, and I'm sure this is not the only case.
Anyway, if you haven't seen it, this is a fairly good program and is running this week on the Discovery Channels.