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- [Narrator 1] The images
that we have of Helen Keller

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are a media creation.

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- [Audio Description]
Grade-school aged
Helen reads a book.

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- [Narrator 2] The story, the
overcoming, the saintly figure

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- [AD] She touches a harp
while a crowd watches.

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- [Narrator 3] It paints
a very limited picture.

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- [AD] At crowded
Capitol politicians

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unveil statue of Helen Keller.
Keller attends a protest.

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- [Narrator 4] She
was such a trailblazer

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for so many of these civil
rights and social movements.

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- [AD] Helen Keller speaks

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at a microphone,
smiling and confident.

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As an ambassador she visits
Nagasaki's atomic bomb Memorial.

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She sits in the
seat of a biplane.

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She traces the line of
a Martha Graham dancer.

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- [Narrator 3] A fully
complex, quirky person

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of very firm
convictions, not perfect.

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- [AD] Helen Keller feels

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the face of Henry
Ford as both smile.

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She cradles a flower bouquet.

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- [Narrator 1] This
is the representative

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of what it means to be human.