1 00:01:55,883 --> 00:01:57,318 When I was growing up... 2 00:01:57,385 --> 00:01:58,719 in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia... 3 00:01:58,786 --> 00:02:00,788 during the Depression of the 1930s, 4 00:02:00,854 --> 00:02:03,824 times were often difficult and unsure. 5 00:02:03,891 --> 00:02:05,793 But I don't think any of us ever realized 6 00:02:05,859 --> 00:02:08,862 how safe and secure our lives really were... 7 00:02:08,929 --> 00:02:10,764 until that summer when a family arrived 8 00:02:10,831 --> 00:02:13,367 in Walton's Mountain from Germany. 9 00:02:23,744 --> 00:02:26,480 Never thought I'd live to see a taxicab in Walton's Mountain. 10 00:02:26,547 --> 00:02:28,015 What are they doing here, John-Boy? 11 00:02:28,081 --> 00:02:31,285 -Lost, more than likely. -Who was in it? Did anybody see? 12 00:02:31,352 --> 00:02:33,321 Looked like three or four people to me. 13 00:02:33,387 --> 00:02:35,423 Wouldn't it be something to ride in a taxi cab? 14 00:02:35,489 --> 00:02:37,090 It would be something else to pay the bill. 15 00:02:37,157 --> 00:02:38,326 It sure would. 16 00:02:55,776 --> 00:02:57,311 Stay here. 17 00:02:57,378 --> 00:02:58,846 Take care. 18 00:03:05,386 --> 00:03:08,322 Here you go, ladies. Here's your change. 19 00:03:08,389 --> 00:03:10,824 Ya'll come back. 20 00:03:13,794 --> 00:03:16,730 Good afternoon. What can I do for you? 21 00:03:16,797 --> 00:03:19,233 -Are you Mr. Godsey? -That's right. 22 00:03:19,300 --> 00:03:21,402 I am Professor Mann. David Mann. 23 00:03:21,469 --> 00:03:24,305 Oh, Professor Mann, I've been expecting you. 24 00:03:24,372 --> 00:03:26,274 Welcome to Walton's Mountain. 25 00:03:28,008 --> 00:03:30,778 And this is my wife, Eva. 26 00:03:30,844 --> 00:03:32,646 Very pleased to make your acquaintance, ma'am. 27 00:03:32,713 --> 00:03:35,616 We, too, are pleased to meet you, Mr. Godsey. 28 00:03:38,886 --> 00:03:42,290 If you would be so kind as to give us the key to the cottage. 29 00:03:42,356 --> 00:03:44,958 The key to the cottage. Of course, Professor. 30 00:03:45,025 --> 00:03:46,527 I've got it right here in the cash register. 31 00:03:46,594 --> 00:03:49,497 Listen, if there's anything you need... 32 00:03:49,563 --> 00:03:51,799 you don't hesitate to ask old Ike. 33 00:03:56,870 --> 00:03:59,873 First time I heard of anybody coming here in a taxi before. 34 00:03:59,940 --> 00:04:02,676 -Must have cost a fortune. -I reckon. 35 00:04:04,312 --> 00:04:08,549 $7.50. I heard my father say this. 36 00:04:08,616 --> 00:04:10,818 Oh. Too bad my Daddy didn't know. 37 00:04:10,884 --> 00:04:12,353 He was in Charlottesville yesterday. 38 00:04:12,420 --> 00:04:14,422 Could have given you a ride for nothing. 39 00:04:14,488 --> 00:04:16,457 That would have been nice. 40 00:04:16,524 --> 00:04:19,760 -You are.... -I'm sorry. John-Boy Walton. 41 00:04:19,827 --> 00:04:21,228 How do you do? 42 00:04:21,295 --> 00:04:24,097 This is my sister Mary Ellen, and my brothers Jason and Ben. 43 00:04:24,164 --> 00:04:26,467 Happy to make your acquaintance. 44 00:04:26,534 --> 00:04:28,836 My name is Paul. Paul Mann. 45 00:04:28,902 --> 00:04:30,671 You figure to stay around here, Paul? 46 00:04:30,738 --> 00:04:34,241 Figure to stay? 47 00:04:34,308 --> 00:04:36,944 I am sorry. My English is not yet very good. 48 00:04:37,010 --> 00:04:40,080 What my brother means is are you going to be staying.... 49 00:04:40,147 --> 00:04:42,816 Will you stay here in Walton's Mountain for a while? 50 00:04:42,883 --> 00:04:44,485 Excuse me. 51 00:04:47,921 --> 00:04:50,190 Why do you wish to know? 52 00:04:50,257 --> 00:04:51,825 No reason. Just asking. 53 00:04:51,892 --> 00:04:55,429 If you do not mind, we will be on our way. 54 00:04:55,496 --> 00:04:56,764 Come, Eva. 55 00:04:58,332 --> 00:05:00,734 We will stay for a while, ja. 56 00:05:03,136 --> 00:05:04,905 Bye, Paul. 57 00:05:04,972 --> 00:05:07,575 -Pleased to have met you. -Same here. 58 00:05:10,944 --> 00:05:12,546 Auf Wiedersehen! 59 00:05:13,313 --> 00:05:14,882 Bye. 60 00:05:16,617 --> 00:05:18,419 Sure talk funny, don't they? 61 00:05:18,486 --> 00:05:20,788 If that's his daddy, he's not very friendly. 62 00:05:25,225 --> 00:05:28,596 -Mr. Godsey. -Hi, kids. 63 00:05:28,662 --> 00:05:30,398 -Who are those folks? -Where did they come from? 64 00:05:30,464 --> 00:05:31,999 Where're they going to live? 65 00:05:32,065 --> 00:05:34,835 Their name is Mann. M-A-N-N. And it's Professor and Mrs. 66 00:05:34,902 --> 00:05:37,471 -Professor? -Right. From Berlin University. 67 00:05:37,538 --> 00:05:39,573 -Berlin in Germany? -Right again. 68 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:41,609 What are they doing here? 69 00:05:41,675 --> 00:05:44,111 Doc Harrison wrote me from Richmond last week... 70 00:05:44,177 --> 00:05:46,947 said some friends had arrived in the United States unexpectedly. 71 00:05:47,014 --> 00:05:48,849 And he'd loaned them his summer cottage. 72 00:05:48,916 --> 00:05:53,086 Doc Harrison's cottage. That's a little aways from our house. 73 00:05:53,153 --> 00:05:54,822 Germany? 74 00:05:54,888 --> 00:05:56,156 Miss Hunter at school says there's gonna be 75 00:05:56,223 --> 00:05:57,458 lots of trouble there. 76 00:05:57,525 --> 00:05:59,226 -It's already started. -What's started? 77 00:05:59,292 --> 00:06:00,894 It's not easy to say. 78 00:06:00,961 --> 00:06:03,831 We get the information in bits and pieces over the radio... 79 00:06:03,897 --> 00:06:07,468 and in the newspaper, but ever since Hitler took over... 80 00:06:07,535 --> 00:06:09,537 there's been a lot of changes. 81 00:06:29,423 --> 00:06:32,526 It is charming. Ja, Paul? 82 00:06:32,593 --> 00:06:33,894 Yes, yes. 83 00:06:33,961 --> 00:06:37,030 I think we will like it here, Mama. 84 00:06:37,097 --> 00:06:39,433 And you will have many friends, too. 85 00:06:40,367 --> 00:06:41,969 One moment, please. 86 00:06:43,403 --> 00:06:45,439 Understand, both of you. 87 00:06:45,506 --> 00:06:47,340 We will be polite. 88 00:06:47,407 --> 00:06:50,077 We will speak when spoken to... 89 00:06:50,143 --> 00:06:52,913 but we'll not encourage conversation with these people. 90 00:06:52,980 --> 00:06:54,682 Why not, Papa? 91 00:06:54,748 --> 00:06:56,550 Because it is the best way, believe me. 92 00:06:57,585 --> 00:07:00,353 Also we will speak English only. 93 00:07:00,420 --> 00:07:03,056 -David, this is not-- -Eva, please. 94 00:07:04,525 --> 00:07:05,793 Inside. 95 00:07:15,536 --> 00:07:18,238 John-Boy, do they speak English? 96 00:07:18,305 --> 00:07:19,807 They do, with a German accent. 97 00:07:19,873 --> 00:07:22,309 Did you see that funny box he was holding? 98 00:07:22,375 --> 00:07:23,744 I'll bet they're spies. 99 00:07:23,811 --> 00:07:27,114 -Spies. You reckon, Jim-Bob? -Sure. 100 00:07:27,180 --> 00:07:30,450 They got a radio in that box for sending out coded messages. 101 00:07:30,518 --> 00:07:32,352 I declare, you two. 102 00:07:32,419 --> 00:07:33,621 Elizabeth, eat your squash. 103 00:07:33,687 --> 00:07:36,590 Tastes better if you call it squish. 104 00:07:38,225 --> 00:07:40,027 What kind of people did they seem to be, son? 105 00:07:40,093 --> 00:07:42,062 They are real polite. 106 00:07:43,363 --> 00:07:45,265 The father was kind of formal. 107 00:07:45,332 --> 00:07:47,968 The boy, was he young or old? 108 00:07:48,035 --> 00:07:50,904 He must have been some years younger than Jason. 109 00:07:50,971 --> 00:07:52,439 But there was something odd about him. 110 00:07:52,506 --> 00:07:55,175 Odd? What do you mean by odd? 111 00:07:55,242 --> 00:07:58,245 When you look at him, when I looked at him anyway... 112 00:07:58,311 --> 00:07:59,880 at his eyes... 113 00:07:59,947 --> 00:08:02,415 I don't know, I got the feeling he was older than I am. 114 00:08:02,482 --> 00:08:04,284 Probably tired out from the journey. 115 00:08:04,351 --> 00:08:05,853 No wonder. 116 00:08:05,919 --> 00:08:09,056 Tomorrow I'll bake an applesauce cake and take it over to them. 117 00:08:09,122 --> 00:08:11,725 -I wouldn't go there, Mama. -Why not? 118 00:08:11,792 --> 00:08:14,261 Suppose it's not a radio they got in that box. 119 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:16,664 Maybe it's a bomb. 120 00:08:18,331 --> 00:08:19,800 Bomb? 121 00:08:19,867 --> 00:08:22,536 Where in the Lord's name does that child get those ideas? 122 00:08:22,603 --> 00:08:25,205 -I told him. -Elizabeth. 123 00:08:25,272 --> 00:08:26,707 Eat your squish. 124 00:08:26,774 --> 00:08:28,776 You children start using your napkins. 125 00:08:34,181 --> 00:08:37,484 This is H.V. Kaltenborn with the news. 126 00:08:37,551 --> 00:08:39,119 Beneath the surface of a Germany united 127 00:08:39,186 --> 00:08:42,489 by Hitler, the government's official persecution 128 00:08:42,556 --> 00:08:44,224 of Jews quietly continues. 129 00:08:44,291 --> 00:08:48,095 Marriages between Aryans and Jews are forbidden by law... 130 00:08:48,161 --> 00:08:51,865 and now no Jew may teach or hold public office. 131 00:08:51,932 --> 00:08:55,703 Already, persecution has joined hands with suppression. 132 00:08:55,769 --> 00:08:57,404 One night recently, in the streets 133 00:08:57,470 --> 00:08:59,172 near the University of Berlin... 134 00:08:59,239 --> 00:09:01,975 an enormous bonfire was ignited. 135 00:09:02,042 --> 00:09:06,146 Into the flames were thrown more than 20,000 books... 136 00:09:06,213 --> 00:09:09,016 books by authors of international reputation 137 00:09:09,082 --> 00:09:10,450 and importance. 138 00:09:10,517 --> 00:09:13,120 Sigmund Freud, H.G. Wells, Stefan Zweig... 139 00:09:13,186 --> 00:09:16,690 Helen Keller, Albert Einstein, Emile Zola.... 140 00:09:19,693 --> 00:09:21,561 Did you hear what that man was saying? 141 00:09:21,629 --> 00:09:23,864 It is hard to listen to. 142 00:09:25,833 --> 00:09:28,535 Burning books is like burning people. 143 00:09:28,602 --> 00:09:31,304 Why would people do such craziness? 144 00:09:31,371 --> 00:09:35,508 Seems like this Hitler has some idea of a master race. 145 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:36,977 Aryans, he calls them. 146 00:09:37,044 --> 00:09:39,579 You heard what Kaltenborn said. 147 00:09:39,647 --> 00:09:43,884 You have to fit into a pattern. If you don't, get rid of them. 148 00:09:45,418 --> 00:09:48,355 I don't understand. How can people fit into a pattern? 149 00:09:48,421 --> 00:09:51,792 I mean, all of us here are completely different. 150 00:09:51,859 --> 00:09:54,061 I just don't understand that at all. 151 00:09:54,127 --> 00:09:57,464 Will somebody turn on that radio? 152 00:09:57,530 --> 00:09:58,999 John-Boy. 153 00:09:59,066 --> 00:10:01,134 We're missing One Man's Family. 154 00:10:03,270 --> 00:10:04,504 I tell you, 155 00:10:04,571 --> 00:10:06,439 I don't know how you can listen to One Man's Family... 156 00:10:06,506 --> 00:10:08,942 when some maniac in Europe is burning books! 157 00:10:09,009 --> 00:10:13,013 -Get a hold of yourself. -No, I don't care, Mama. 158 00:10:13,080 --> 00:10:14,614 I don't know who those writers are. 159 00:10:14,682 --> 00:10:18,385 I never read any of their books, but I'll read all their books... 160 00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:21,822 and find out just what they had to say. 161 00:10:21,889 --> 00:10:23,423 And what I don't know... 162 00:10:23,490 --> 00:10:26,827 is how all of you can't feel what I am feeling right now. 163 00:10:29,863 --> 00:10:32,132 He's a writer, alright. 164 00:10:32,199 --> 00:10:35,035 Words on paper must be very important. 165 00:10:35,102 --> 00:10:37,738 Otherwise they wouldn't be burning those books. 166 00:11:00,360 --> 00:11:02,863 You missed it. 167 00:11:24,251 --> 00:11:25,585 Eva. 168 00:11:25,652 --> 00:11:29,022 -I asked you, please. -What? 169 00:11:29,089 --> 00:11:32,960 Oh. I am sorry. I forget. Only English. 170 00:11:37,497 --> 00:11:39,532 That's where those German spies live. 171 00:11:39,599 --> 00:11:42,002 That's just a bunch of baloney. 172 00:11:42,069 --> 00:11:44,404 -Bet you can't hit that rock. -Bet I can. 173 00:12:01,254 --> 00:12:02,722 Get down! 174 00:12:04,124 --> 00:12:06,426 Look what you did. Now let's get out of here. 175 00:12:12,332 --> 00:12:14,334 What happened? 176 00:12:14,401 --> 00:12:16,837 Here, too. It begins. 177 00:12:17,771 --> 00:12:19,973 I cannot go through it again. 178 00:12:22,275 --> 00:12:25,012 When in the name of God will they leave us alone? 179 00:12:35,255 --> 00:12:36,824 Come, Eva. 180 00:13:20,600 --> 00:13:22,135 Guess nobody's home. 181 00:13:22,202 --> 00:13:23,971 -Should I try around back? -No. 182 00:13:24,037 --> 00:13:26,673 If anybody was home, they'd have heard us. 183 00:13:26,739 --> 00:13:28,575 We'll come back later. 184 00:13:37,951 --> 00:13:41,889 Mama, there is somebody there. 185 00:13:44,491 --> 00:13:45,993 -Let's go back. -No. 186 00:13:46,059 --> 00:13:48,361 Some other time. 187 00:13:48,428 --> 00:13:50,597 Come on, children. Let's go home. 188 00:13:57,104 --> 00:13:59,907 There we go. A little bit more there. 189 00:14:01,108 --> 00:14:03,376 That ought to just about do. 190 00:14:04,978 --> 00:14:07,981 Boy, I love the smell of fresh-ground coffee. 191 00:14:08,048 --> 00:14:09,549 Is that about it, Olivia? 192 00:14:09,616 --> 00:14:11,018 There's a lot more things I need... 193 00:14:11,084 --> 00:14:13,320 but I have to watch every penny these days. 194 00:14:13,386 --> 00:14:16,689 I know what you mean. We're all in the same boat. 195 00:14:16,756 --> 00:14:18,058 What are the damages? 196 00:14:18,125 --> 00:14:19,426 Let me figure it up here. Let's see now. 197 00:14:19,492 --> 00:14:24,264 With the coffee that will be $97. 198 00:14:24,864 --> 00:14:27,000 Out of $100. 199 00:14:32,339 --> 00:14:34,307 Hi, Professor. Hello, Mrs. Mann. 200 00:14:34,374 --> 00:14:37,277 -How are you today? -We're well. Thank you. 201 00:14:37,344 --> 00:14:39,812 -Did you get settled in okay? -Yeah. 202 00:14:39,879 --> 00:14:42,715 I need a piece of glass. A window glass. 203 00:14:42,782 --> 00:14:47,921 -Do you know what size? -Ja, 10 inches by 21 inches. 204 00:14:47,988 --> 00:14:49,923 Reckon we can take care of that. 205 00:14:49,990 --> 00:14:51,791 If you would just follow me right around. 206 00:14:51,858 --> 00:14:53,326 Want a cracker? 207 00:15:02,769 --> 00:15:05,772 -Mrs. Mann. -Ja. 208 00:15:05,838 --> 00:15:07,874 I'm Olivia Walton. 209 00:15:07,941 --> 00:15:09,977 My children met you here the other day. 210 00:15:10,043 --> 00:15:12,545 Ja, that is so. 211 00:15:12,612 --> 00:15:15,582 We'd love it if you'd come around and call on us some time. 212 00:15:15,648 --> 00:15:19,953 I think that might be most nice. I'll speak to my husband. 213 00:15:20,020 --> 00:15:21,521 Eva. 214 00:15:23,590 --> 00:15:25,993 Would you come here a minute, please? 215 00:15:34,734 --> 00:15:37,170 -Bye, Ike. -Bye, Olivia. 216 00:15:37,237 --> 00:15:40,507 Real nice people, the Waltons. 217 00:15:40,573 --> 00:15:42,575 In the whole of Jefferson County... 218 00:15:42,642 --> 00:15:46,213 you'd be hard put to find a better woman than Olivia Walton. 219 00:15:47,547 --> 00:15:50,183 Person's lucky if they can count her among their friends. 220 00:15:50,250 --> 00:15:56,023 Mr. Godsey, I'm afraid here, we cannot afford to make friends. 221 00:15:57,257 --> 00:15:59,792 -Why not? -Because here we are not wanted. 222 00:15:59,859 --> 00:16:01,594 David. 223 00:16:01,661 --> 00:16:04,031 -Not wanted? -Yes. 224 00:16:04,097 --> 00:16:06,066 You see, yesterday someone deliberately... 225 00:16:06,133 --> 00:16:08,035 broke our window with a rock. 226 00:16:09,602 --> 00:16:11,404 For the life of me, I can't imagine anybody 227 00:16:11,471 --> 00:16:13,540 wanting to do that around here. 228 00:16:13,606 --> 00:16:15,475 Deliberately, that is. 229 00:16:15,542 --> 00:16:18,045 Maybe it was a mistake or an accident. 230 00:16:18,111 --> 00:16:21,014 No, Mr. Godsey. 231 00:16:21,081 --> 00:16:22,615 For us... 232 00:16:22,682 --> 00:16:27,454 it is most difficult to believe that such things were accidents. 233 00:16:38,931 --> 00:16:40,733 Hey, Paul, you want a lift? 234 00:16:40,800 --> 00:16:43,670 -Yes, please. -Hop in. 235 00:16:43,736 --> 00:16:45,438 Thank you. 236 00:16:52,045 --> 00:16:53,646 How old are you, Paul? 237 00:16:53,713 --> 00:16:57,317 12. But very soon, I shall be 13. 238 00:16:57,384 --> 00:17:00,753 I remember when I was 13, I didn't care for it too much. 239 00:17:00,820 --> 00:17:03,390 -Why? -I don't know. 240 00:17:03,456 --> 00:17:05,792 Seems like I was always stuck somewhere in the middle. 241 00:17:05,858 --> 00:17:09,562 -Not a boy, not a man. -But that is not so. 242 00:17:09,629 --> 00:17:14,067 Thirteen is a very important age, very important indeed. 243 00:17:14,134 --> 00:17:16,569 That is when you become a.... 244 00:17:16,636 --> 00:17:18,105 Become what? 245 00:17:19,672 --> 00:17:21,308 We are here. 246 00:17:26,979 --> 00:17:29,782 -Thank you, John-Boy. -You're welcome. See you later. 247 00:17:34,020 --> 00:17:36,189 John-Boy, could you come in? 248 00:17:36,256 --> 00:17:38,391 I would like to introduce you to my parents. 249 00:17:41,494 --> 00:17:42,662 Sure. 250 00:18:06,319 --> 00:18:08,488 -Come in, please. -Thank you. 251 00:18:12,058 --> 00:18:13,826 Papa. 252 00:18:13,893 --> 00:18:16,263 Papa, are you home? 253 00:18:22,135 --> 00:18:23,403 Mama. 254 00:18:24,871 --> 00:18:26,406 Mama. 255 00:18:27,640 --> 00:18:30,343 Mama. 256 00:18:30,410 --> 00:18:33,980 They are not back yet. Will you wait, please? 257 00:18:34,046 --> 00:18:37,584 -Sure, if they're not too long. -They only went to the store. 258 00:18:42,922 --> 00:18:45,258 These are very dull. 259 00:18:46,125 --> 00:18:49,696 "Liver ailments of the elderly." 260 00:18:49,762 --> 00:18:51,331 I reckon you're right. 261 00:18:51,398 --> 00:18:54,634 But upstairs in the attic, I find many good ones. 262 00:18:54,701 --> 00:18:56,936 Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities. 263 00:18:57,003 --> 00:19:00,307 Your Zane Grey, which I read to learn about America. 264 00:19:00,373 --> 00:19:02,242 Would you like to see them? 265 00:19:02,309 --> 00:19:05,144 -Yes, I sure would. -Come on. 266 00:19:07,647 --> 00:19:10,217 -I have James Fenimore Cooper. -You have The Deerslayer ? 267 00:19:10,283 --> 00:19:11,684 Yes, I think so. 268 00:19:11,751 --> 00:19:13,453 Great. I read The Last of the Mohicans, 269 00:19:13,520 --> 00:19:14,687 but not The Deerslayer. 270 00:19:29,202 --> 00:19:31,971 Those up there, I could not reach. 271 00:19:32,038 --> 00:19:34,241 I'll get them for you. 272 00:19:35,708 --> 00:19:37,644 Here we are. 273 00:19:43,616 --> 00:19:45,017 Paul! 274 00:19:45,084 --> 00:19:48,054 Are you alright? Just stay right there. Now don't move. 275 00:19:48,120 --> 00:19:49,789 Is it your head? 276 00:19:49,856 --> 00:19:51,858 -I knocked into him-- -What are you doing here? 277 00:19:51,924 --> 00:19:54,093 -I was getting-- -What have you done to my son? 278 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,128 Nothing, just.... 279 00:19:56,195 --> 00:19:57,797 -Get out of this house! -Let me explain! 280 00:19:57,864 --> 00:19:59,966 Papa, wait. You don't understand! 281 00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:02,168 -Please get out. -Professor, you don't under--. 282 00:20:02,235 --> 00:20:04,337 I do not wish to understand. Get out. 283 00:20:04,404 --> 00:20:06,806 I do not wish any more trouble in this house. 284 00:20:06,873 --> 00:20:08,808 Get out! 285 00:20:35,768 --> 00:20:37,236 John-Boy. 286 00:20:38,671 --> 00:20:40,006 Yes, sir. 287 00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:43,209 You hardly said a word all through supper. 288 00:20:43,276 --> 00:20:46,546 You still worried about what happened over at the cottage? 289 00:20:50,082 --> 00:20:54,621 No, I'm not worried. I just feel so darned stupid. 290 00:20:54,687 --> 00:20:58,157 Maybe you should go over there, have a talk with Professor Mann. 291 00:20:58,224 --> 00:21:01,027 Straighten him out about it. 292 00:21:01,093 --> 00:21:03,296 It's not that important. 293 00:21:05,365 --> 00:21:08,768 If it bothers you, son, it's important. 294 00:21:10,169 --> 00:21:12,339 You do like I tell you. 295 00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:41,901 It's a long time since I worked with my hands. 296 00:21:41,968 --> 00:21:45,705 It is a good feeling. 297 00:21:45,772 --> 00:21:47,474 As good as new. 298 00:21:47,540 --> 00:21:49,709 Not another moment too soon. 299 00:22:00,920 --> 00:22:03,723 Paul, I am sorry about yesterday. 300 00:22:05,725 --> 00:22:07,994 But when I heard you cry out... 301 00:22:08,060 --> 00:22:10,397 and I see you lying on the floor... 302 00:22:10,463 --> 00:22:12,499 suddenly I think we're back in Berlin 303 00:22:12,565 --> 00:22:14,467 and someone is trying to hurt my son. 304 00:22:14,534 --> 00:22:18,104 My anger burst out. So I could not hold it back. 305 00:22:18,170 --> 00:22:20,473 David, how can you think that? 306 00:22:20,540 --> 00:22:22,909 The people here are so friendly with us. 307 00:22:22,975 --> 00:22:24,010 Yes. 308 00:22:25,812 --> 00:22:28,581 So were our friends on Friedrichstrasse, most friendly. 309 00:22:28,648 --> 00:22:30,517 And yet when the bad times came... 310 00:22:30,583 --> 00:22:33,686 they were the first to turn against us. 311 00:22:33,753 --> 00:22:35,588 That will not happen here. 312 00:22:36,689 --> 00:22:39,726 How can we be so sure? 313 00:22:39,792 --> 00:22:43,496 In this country also, there is a terrible depression now. 314 00:22:43,563 --> 00:22:45,798 Many people have no jobs. 315 00:22:45,865 --> 00:22:48,134 They have lost their homes and their farms. 316 00:22:48,200 --> 00:22:52,371 This condition breeds fear. They need someone to blame. 317 00:22:52,439 --> 00:22:54,774 But why would they blame us? 318 00:22:54,841 --> 00:22:57,677 Because they need a scapegoat. 319 00:22:57,744 --> 00:22:59,546 Do you know how many times in history... 320 00:22:59,612 --> 00:23:02,849 the Jews have been used this way? 321 00:23:02,915 --> 00:23:05,552 I do not wish this for our family again. 322 00:23:05,618 --> 00:23:08,521 David, we cannot change what we are. 323 00:23:08,588 --> 00:23:11,858 This will be with us wherever we go. 324 00:23:11,924 --> 00:23:13,192 No. 325 00:23:13,259 --> 00:23:15,027 Not if we are careful. 326 00:23:15,094 --> 00:23:18,364 Do you mean we can no longer be Jews? 327 00:23:18,431 --> 00:23:20,032 Exactly. 328 00:23:20,099 --> 00:23:21,968 Not even in secret. 329 00:23:22,034 --> 00:23:25,004 There will be no Friday night prayers. 330 00:23:25,071 --> 00:23:27,073 There will be no observance of the Sabbath... 331 00:23:27,139 --> 00:23:29,576 or any other holy days. 332 00:23:31,177 --> 00:23:35,882 We will forget we are Jews until this nightmare is over. 333 00:23:36,849 --> 00:23:39,151 But what about my birthday? 334 00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:44,190 Yes, in two weeks he will be 13. 335 00:23:45,191 --> 00:23:46,593 I know. 336 00:23:47,827 --> 00:23:51,598 You mean, I cannot have my bar mitzvah? 337 00:23:52,699 --> 00:23:55,735 I'm sorry, Paul. Not even that. 338 00:23:55,802 --> 00:23:57,837 It hurts me to do this, but I cannot. 339 00:23:57,904 --> 00:24:01,140 I will not allow us to take any more risks. 340 00:24:16,789 --> 00:24:18,124 Professor Mann, I've got to talk to you. 341 00:24:19,759 --> 00:24:22,094 Please, come inside. 342 00:24:22,161 --> 00:24:23,462 No, sir. 343 00:24:23,530 --> 00:24:26,533 What I've got to say is just between us two. 344 00:24:30,136 --> 00:24:32,605 I don't rightly know what I did to offend you. 345 00:24:32,672 --> 00:24:34,140 But I came here to tell you... 346 00:24:34,206 --> 00:24:38,010 that you had no right to yell at me the way you did. 347 00:24:39,111 --> 00:24:43,382 I was hurt. My feelings were hurt. 348 00:24:43,449 --> 00:24:45,284 I didn't come here to look for an apology. 349 00:24:45,351 --> 00:24:47,887 I just want you to know how I feel. 350 00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:52,992 Please. Come in. 351 00:24:54,326 --> 00:24:55,895 Ja. 352 00:24:58,631 --> 00:25:01,067 -Paul. -John-Boy. 353 00:25:03,970 --> 00:25:05,938 This is my wife. 354 00:25:06,005 --> 00:25:08,608 Eva, this is young John Walton. 355 00:25:08,675 --> 00:25:11,177 I'm most happy to meet you. 356 00:25:11,243 --> 00:25:14,714 My son explained to me what happened... 357 00:25:14,781 --> 00:25:18,651 and I do owe you an apology. 358 00:25:18,718 --> 00:25:20,519 I was terribly upset about something... 359 00:25:20,587 --> 00:25:24,724 and I misjudged the situation. 360 00:25:25,725 --> 00:25:27,927 I ask you to forgive me. 361 00:25:32,665 --> 00:25:35,367 Sure, Professor. 362 00:25:35,434 --> 00:25:36,636 Sure. 363 00:25:38,237 --> 00:25:41,540 We will, as you say... 364 00:25:41,608 --> 00:25:44,711 turn over a new leaf, yes? 365 00:25:44,777 --> 00:25:46,779 Okay. Yeah. 366 00:25:46,846 --> 00:25:50,549 John-Boy, I want you to know that I am most happy... 367 00:25:50,617 --> 00:25:53,986 that my son will have friends as good as you and your family. 368 00:25:55,387 --> 00:25:57,890 That's our pleasure, ma'am. 369 00:26:09,301 --> 00:26:13,305 Okay, all ready down here. 370 00:26:13,372 --> 00:26:15,241 Okay, Ben, let's heave. 371 00:26:19,812 --> 00:26:22,348 Careful. Don't drop him. Don't be scared, Reckless. 372 00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:24,851 Remember, Charles Lindbergh wasn't scared. 373 00:26:24,917 --> 00:26:28,254 -But Reckless is. -What do you think you're doing? 374 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,690 Mary Ellen, you crazy or something? Let him down. 375 00:26:30,757 --> 00:26:32,692 He was whining to come up. 376 00:26:32,759 --> 00:26:34,526 That's no reason to hang him from a tree... 377 00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:35,795 like a Christmas ornament. 378 00:26:35,862 --> 00:26:38,631 Go on, let him down. 379 00:26:45,972 --> 00:26:48,708 Alright. Untie him. 380 00:26:48,775 --> 00:26:50,643 -What is his name? -Reckless. 381 00:26:50,710 --> 00:26:52,879 Reckless? 382 00:26:54,781 --> 00:26:58,685 -That is a good name for him. -Yeah. 383 00:26:58,751 --> 00:27:01,420 I have always wanted to have a dog like that. 384 00:27:01,487 --> 00:27:04,356 And also one of those. 385 00:27:04,423 --> 00:27:06,425 -A tree house? -Ja. 386 00:27:06,492 --> 00:27:08,127 Come on up. 387 00:27:10,496 --> 00:27:12,631 Let's all go up. 388 00:27:18,204 --> 00:27:20,606 Maybe your folks'll give you a dog for your birthday. 389 00:27:20,673 --> 00:27:23,042 No, I don't think so. 390 00:27:23,109 --> 00:27:24,944 Why not? It's not like being in a city... 391 00:27:25,011 --> 00:27:26,345 with no place for it to run. 392 00:27:26,412 --> 00:27:29,381 -It is not that. -Don't they like dogs? 393 00:27:29,448 --> 00:27:33,652 No, Elizabeth. I think they would like to have a dog. 394 00:27:33,720 --> 00:27:35,187 But you see, this year... 395 00:27:35,254 --> 00:27:37,456 I do not think I'll be celebrating my birthday. 396 00:27:37,523 --> 00:27:39,625 Everybody has to celebrate their birthday. 397 00:27:39,692 --> 00:27:42,394 You told me this one was real important 398 00:27:42,461 --> 00:27:44,030 'cause you were gonna be 13. 399 00:27:44,096 --> 00:27:47,333 -I know. -Why is being 13 so important? 400 00:27:47,399 --> 00:27:50,502 Is it some kind of custom in Germany or something? 401 00:27:50,569 --> 00:27:55,141 Not only in Germany, but anywhere in the world if you... 402 00:27:56,308 --> 00:27:58,044 If you're what? 403 00:28:00,679 --> 00:28:02,749 It is late. I must go. 404 00:28:02,815 --> 00:28:05,752 No, don't. Wait. 405 00:28:10,189 --> 00:28:11,557 Paul, our Daddy's always telling us... 406 00:28:11,623 --> 00:28:15,127 not to pry into other folks' affairs... 407 00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:17,296 and I know that none of us here want to do that. 408 00:28:18,364 --> 00:28:20,767 But if something's bothering you, 409 00:28:20,833 --> 00:28:22,668 and you want to tell somebody about it... 410 00:28:22,735 --> 00:28:26,338 then I just want you to know that you can trust all of us. 411 00:28:36,949 --> 00:28:39,919 Come on, tell us why you aren't celebrating your birthday. 412 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:45,825 Well, you see... 413 00:28:47,226 --> 00:28:49,261 I am a Jew. 414 00:28:49,328 --> 00:28:51,798 A Jew? What's that? 415 00:28:51,864 --> 00:28:54,700 It's a religion in the Bible, Ben. You ought to know that. 416 00:28:54,767 --> 00:28:56,102 Jesus was one. 417 00:28:56,168 --> 00:28:58,170 I still don't know what a Jew is. 418 00:28:58,237 --> 00:29:02,274 Does that mean that you believe in special things? 419 00:29:02,341 --> 00:29:06,112 We believe that God created the heaven and the earth... 420 00:29:06,178 --> 00:29:08,580 and made the mountains and the seas. 421 00:29:08,647 --> 00:29:10,282 We believe that, too. 422 00:29:10,349 --> 00:29:12,518 We believe in the Ten Commandments: 423 00:29:12,584 --> 00:29:14,053 "Thou shalt not kill." 424 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:15,387 "Honor thy father and thy mother." 425 00:29:15,454 --> 00:29:17,890 "Remember the Sabbath and keep it holy." 426 00:29:17,957 --> 00:29:21,093 We learned all that in Sunday school. 427 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:22,394 Seems to me that being a Jew... 428 00:29:22,461 --> 00:29:25,431 isn't all that different from being a Baptist. 429 00:29:25,497 --> 00:29:27,399 Perhaps it is not. 430 00:29:27,466 --> 00:29:31,237 Except when you are 13. Then I think it is different. 431 00:29:31,303 --> 00:29:33,139 Why is that? 432 00:29:33,205 --> 00:29:36,542 When a Jewish boy is 13, he has his bar mitzvah. 433 00:29:36,608 --> 00:29:39,678 -Bar what? -Bar mitzvah. 434 00:29:39,745 --> 00:29:41,247 This is a very solemn ceremony... 435 00:29:41,313 --> 00:29:45,584 which celebrates his arrival at manhood. 436 00:29:45,651 --> 00:29:46,886 It is performed by a rabbi. 437 00:29:46,953 --> 00:29:48,821 What's a rabbi? 438 00:29:50,222 --> 00:29:53,926 He is something between your minister and a teacher. 439 00:29:53,993 --> 00:29:56,595 He is most good and wise about many things. 440 00:29:56,662 --> 00:30:00,432 Also there must be nine other Jewish men with him. 441 00:30:00,499 --> 00:30:01,901 They are called a minyan. 442 00:30:01,968 --> 00:30:03,769 What do they do? 443 00:30:03,836 --> 00:30:06,005 -They are witnesses. -Like in court? 444 00:30:06,072 --> 00:30:08,674 For the service, I must say... 445 00:30:08,740 --> 00:30:12,111 certain prayers which I've been studying for a long time. 446 00:30:12,178 --> 00:30:14,180 Also, I must wear special things. 447 00:30:17,183 --> 00:30:20,386 Are Baptists allowed to go to your bar mitzvah? 448 00:30:20,452 --> 00:30:23,255 Anybody is allowed to come if they are your friends. 449 00:30:23,322 --> 00:30:26,893 -You've just got to have it. -We're your friends. 450 00:30:26,959 --> 00:30:30,296 I am afraid that is not possible. 451 00:30:30,362 --> 00:30:31,864 But why not? 452 00:30:32,932 --> 00:30:34,901 You see... 453 00:30:34,967 --> 00:30:37,836 my father says that we can no longer be Jews. 454 00:30:41,874 --> 00:30:44,143 I still can't figure out what a Jew is. 455 00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:03,095 Come on, get in. Let's go! 456 00:31:11,637 --> 00:31:12,905 John-Boy... 457 00:31:12,972 --> 00:31:16,008 your father, did he ask where we were going? 458 00:31:16,075 --> 00:31:18,710 I told him. To Charlottesville. 459 00:31:18,777 --> 00:31:21,813 You didn't tell him why, did you? 460 00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:23,182 Not exactly. 461 00:31:23,249 --> 00:31:24,716 I just told him it was important... 462 00:31:24,783 --> 00:31:26,986 and I asked him to trust me. 463 00:31:39,398 --> 00:31:41,200 It's John-Boy. 464 00:31:41,267 --> 00:31:42,768 I didn't hear the truck drive up. 465 00:31:42,834 --> 00:31:44,736 Since when did John-Boy knock? 466 00:31:44,803 --> 00:31:48,140 Children, stay right here now. Finish your meal. 467 00:31:56,148 --> 00:31:57,683 -Good evening. -Good evening. 468 00:31:57,749 --> 00:32:00,019 I am Professor Mann. 469 00:32:00,086 --> 00:32:03,189 Yes, won't you come in? 470 00:32:03,255 --> 00:32:06,758 I'm John Walton. This is my wife Olivia. 471 00:32:06,825 --> 00:32:08,127 -How do you do. -We've met. 472 00:32:08,194 --> 00:32:09,628 We were looking for Paul. 473 00:32:09,695 --> 00:32:12,031 We thought he might be here with you. 474 00:32:12,098 --> 00:32:14,600 I haven't seen Paul all day. 475 00:32:14,666 --> 00:32:17,136 You children seen anything of Paul? 476 00:32:19,238 --> 00:32:22,108 Go on now, speak up. Have you seen him? 477 00:32:22,174 --> 00:32:24,310 Paul went into Charlottesville with John-Boy. 478 00:32:25,544 --> 00:32:27,980 -Charlottesville? -Yes, sir. 479 00:32:29,581 --> 00:32:32,884 Now this might be them just now. 480 00:32:32,951 --> 00:32:34,953 Now you children stay right there. 481 00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,691 I'm sorry, Dad. We had a flat tire. 482 00:32:39,758 --> 00:32:42,995 I reckon you owe the Professor and Mrs. Mann an explanation... 483 00:32:43,062 --> 00:32:45,464 and an apology. They've been real worried. 484 00:32:45,531 --> 00:32:46,898 Why did you go into Charlottesville... 485 00:32:46,965 --> 00:32:48,300 without asking your mother and me? 486 00:32:48,367 --> 00:32:50,469 There was something I had to do there. 487 00:32:50,536 --> 00:32:54,006 -What? -We've been concerned, Paul. 488 00:32:54,073 --> 00:32:56,575 We certainly have. 489 00:32:58,710 --> 00:33:01,113 I went to see a rabbi. 490 00:33:06,485 --> 00:33:08,320 I do not know what he's talking about. 491 00:33:08,387 --> 00:33:10,689 My bar mitzvah. I went to see a rabbi-- 492 00:33:10,756 --> 00:33:12,391 He is talking nonsense. 493 00:33:12,458 --> 00:33:15,261 -Come, we will go home. -No. 494 00:33:15,327 --> 00:33:17,429 Did you say no to your father? Have you no respect? 495 00:33:20,666 --> 00:33:22,534 No. 496 00:33:22,601 --> 00:33:24,370 Not anymore. 497 00:33:26,972 --> 00:33:28,407 Paul! 498 00:33:34,380 --> 00:33:35,647 Paul! 499 00:33:48,860 --> 00:33:50,096 Is that you, John-Boy? 500 00:33:52,164 --> 00:33:55,134 Son, I've been looking everywhere for you. 501 00:33:55,201 --> 00:33:57,403 -Come on, I'll take you home. -No. 502 00:33:57,469 --> 00:34:00,239 You can't stay out here all night. 503 00:34:00,306 --> 00:34:03,209 I'm not going back there. Not ever. 504 00:34:03,275 --> 00:34:05,477 Come on, Paul. Be sensible. 505 00:34:13,919 --> 00:34:15,321 Paul! 506 00:34:16,755 --> 00:34:18,090 If you're gonna be a man at 13... 507 00:34:18,157 --> 00:34:19,858 you better start acting like one. 508 00:34:19,925 --> 00:34:22,461 Stay away from me, John-Boy. 509 00:34:22,528 --> 00:34:24,496 Stay away! 510 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:30,902 Don't worry, Mrs. Mann. He's perfectly alright. 511 00:34:30,969 --> 00:34:33,272 Just a little shaken up. 512 00:34:36,041 --> 00:34:37,443 Paul. 513 00:34:41,046 --> 00:34:42,714 I'm alright, Mama. 514 00:34:42,781 --> 00:34:46,051 I'll be back in a minute. I was fixing him some hot soup. 515 00:34:46,118 --> 00:34:49,255 Thank you, Mrs. Walton. 516 00:34:49,321 --> 00:34:51,590 Oh, we were so worried. 517 00:35:03,335 --> 00:35:05,737 Here, let me take that. 518 00:35:05,804 --> 00:35:10,041 He ate only a few mouthfuls, and then he fell fast asleep. 519 00:35:10,108 --> 00:35:13,412 The best thing for him. By morning, he'll be right as rain. 520 00:35:13,479 --> 00:35:16,482 Sit and have a cup of coffee before John drives you home. 521 00:35:17,816 --> 00:35:20,252 David will be worried. 522 00:35:20,319 --> 00:35:23,489 Already he is so hurt by all this. 523 00:35:23,555 --> 00:35:25,491 It'll only take a minute. 524 00:35:28,727 --> 00:35:30,696 I am tired. 525 00:35:41,340 --> 00:35:44,710 Lying there he looked so young. 526 00:35:44,776 --> 00:35:48,614 Like a little boy again. 527 00:35:51,983 --> 00:35:54,720 Sometimes I wonder if all this will ever end. 528 00:35:57,055 --> 00:36:00,792 It seems now like a bad dream that will not stop. 529 00:36:04,896 --> 00:36:07,766 Living here in America... 530 00:36:07,833 --> 00:36:10,636 it must be so hard for you to understand. 531 00:36:12,271 --> 00:36:14,873 But how can anyone understand madness? 532 00:36:18,510 --> 00:36:21,313 A country where you're born and raised... 533 00:36:21,380 --> 00:36:25,451 and you call your own, suddenly changes. 534 00:36:26,818 --> 00:36:29,921 Your husband for no reason is threatened... 535 00:36:29,988 --> 00:36:32,591 and forced from his job. 536 00:36:32,658 --> 00:36:37,195 At school, your child is taunted and ridiculed. 537 00:36:38,797 --> 00:36:42,368 On the streets, the neighbors, they turn away when you speak. 538 00:36:44,336 --> 00:36:47,473 Then one night... 539 00:36:47,539 --> 00:36:50,576 the windows in your house are smashed. 540 00:36:50,642 --> 00:36:53,845 The door is smeared with paint and slogans. 541 00:36:53,912 --> 00:36:56,648 Words so filthy... 542 00:36:56,715 --> 00:36:59,851 that you must quickly clean them before your child can see them. 543 00:37:02,454 --> 00:37:05,891 Because of these memories we are afraid. 544 00:37:08,294 --> 00:37:12,498 So here we hid... 545 00:37:12,564 --> 00:37:16,468 and decided to pretend we were not Jews. 546 00:37:18,537 --> 00:37:21,573 But you knew that already. 547 00:37:21,640 --> 00:37:26,378 Knew, and never for one minute paid it any mind. 548 00:37:27,779 --> 00:37:31,750 Unfortunately not all people are so good as you... 549 00:37:31,817 --> 00:37:34,553 and your family. 550 00:37:34,620 --> 00:37:35,887 The first day we arrived... 551 00:37:35,954 --> 00:37:38,957 someone threw a rock through our window. 552 00:37:39,024 --> 00:37:41,693 That's an accident, I'm sure. 553 00:37:43,128 --> 00:37:44,963 Yes. 554 00:37:45,897 --> 00:37:47,433 I'm sure it was. 555 00:37:47,499 --> 00:37:49,601 I hope you are right. 556 00:38:23,301 --> 00:38:24,603 Good morning. 557 00:38:24,670 --> 00:38:27,839 -Paul, he's alright? -Sure, he's just fine. 558 00:38:27,906 --> 00:38:31,477 I'm so glad. Come in, Mr. Walton. 559 00:38:36,247 --> 00:38:38,517 -Mint. - Danke schoen. 560 00:38:38,584 --> 00:38:41,653 -David, did you hear that? -Yes, I heard. 561 00:38:41,720 --> 00:38:43,589 Excuse me, I've some work to do. 562 00:38:43,655 --> 00:38:45,223 Just a minute, Professor. 563 00:38:45,290 --> 00:38:48,026 I'd like to have a word or two with you. 564 00:38:48,093 --> 00:38:52,263 Mr. Walton, has not your family already interfered quite enough? 565 00:38:52,330 --> 00:38:54,500 Maybe it does seem like we've been interfering... 566 00:38:54,566 --> 00:38:57,636 but I do believe, sir, that John-Boy was right. 567 00:38:57,703 --> 00:38:59,605 You defend the actions of a boy... 568 00:38:59,671 --> 00:39:02,441 who deliberately turns a son against a father? 569 00:39:03,709 --> 00:39:06,645 I think Paul had already turned away somewhat... 570 00:39:06,712 --> 00:39:09,815 and he was just trying to get you all back together again. 571 00:39:14,453 --> 00:39:16,121 David. 572 00:39:16,187 --> 00:39:17,523 I haven't finished yet, Professor. 573 00:39:17,589 --> 00:39:21,493 Please listen to him. He is older. 574 00:39:21,560 --> 00:39:24,430 Take a seat, Mr. Walton. 575 00:39:24,496 --> 00:39:27,032 I thank you. 576 00:39:34,440 --> 00:39:35,907 First off... 577 00:39:35,974 --> 00:39:39,144 You ought to know that my two young grandchildren... 578 00:39:39,210 --> 00:39:42,548 broke your window accidentally with their slingshot. 579 00:39:43,649 --> 00:39:45,083 And they are sorry for it. 580 00:39:45,150 --> 00:39:47,986 What's more, they're going to pay for it. 581 00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:50,589 Then, too... 582 00:39:50,656 --> 00:39:53,391 perhaps I don't understand what you feel or been through... 583 00:39:53,459 --> 00:39:56,227 because I'm not of your faith. 584 00:39:56,294 --> 00:39:58,964 But there is one thing that I do understand. 585 00:39:59,030 --> 00:40:01,533 It doesn't matter what your color or your religion is. 586 00:40:01,600 --> 00:40:04,335 You got to be proud of your heritage. 587 00:40:04,402 --> 00:40:07,405 Stand up to it, like a man. 588 00:40:09,240 --> 00:40:13,011 If you denied your heritage, you'd be false to yourself... 589 00:40:13,078 --> 00:40:16,515 and it would rankle inside of you just like a canker. 590 00:40:18,283 --> 00:40:20,752 You're not ashamed of being a Jew, are you? 591 00:40:20,819 --> 00:40:26,558 It is not a question of shame. It is a question of survival. 592 00:40:26,625 --> 00:40:29,828 Suppose you do survive on the outside... 593 00:40:29,895 --> 00:40:32,764 inside you die. 594 00:40:32,831 --> 00:40:35,166 Just look around you, man. 595 00:40:35,233 --> 00:40:38,269 Already, your whole family is all torn apart. 596 00:40:38,336 --> 00:40:41,773 Your wife, she is in deep pain. 597 00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:45,176 Your own son, he won't come home to you. 598 00:40:45,243 --> 00:40:47,045 And you yourself, sir. 599 00:40:47,112 --> 00:40:50,148 I do believe that you're not a happy man. 600 00:40:52,918 --> 00:40:54,119 You see, sir... 601 00:40:54,185 --> 00:40:57,188 I was born here in the shadow of this mountain. 602 00:40:57,255 --> 00:41:01,026 My father before that and his father before that. 603 00:41:01,092 --> 00:41:04,730 There're generations of Waltons buried up here on the hill. 604 00:41:06,297 --> 00:41:07,933 That's my heritage. 605 00:41:09,434 --> 00:41:14,305 I know it's not much compared to yours, but it's mine. 606 00:41:14,372 --> 00:41:18,276 Why, my ancestors, if they ever denied their heritage... 607 00:41:18,343 --> 00:41:22,080 my grandchildren wouldn't be what they are today. 608 00:41:22,147 --> 00:41:27,185 I know that same sort of feeling is deep in your heart... 609 00:41:27,252 --> 00:41:30,522 just like it's been in the hearts of all your people... 610 00:41:30,589 --> 00:41:34,025 for over 5,000 years. 611 00:41:38,530 --> 00:41:40,599 Thank you, Mr. Walton. 612 00:41:42,367 --> 00:41:45,270 Well, you just mull that over. 613 00:41:46,672 --> 00:41:48,506 Good day, sir. 614 00:41:57,115 --> 00:41:59,417 Come in. 615 00:41:59,484 --> 00:42:01,186 -Mama. -Paul. 616 00:42:06,424 --> 00:42:08,526 You will have your bar mitzvah. 617 00:42:08,594 --> 00:42:10,662 Oh, good. 618 00:42:10,729 --> 00:42:13,832 And Papa? Will he come? 619 00:42:14,633 --> 00:42:16,534 I do not know, Paul. 620 00:42:16,602 --> 00:42:20,238 He is a very proud man. 621 00:42:21,607 --> 00:42:23,008 Look. 622 00:42:25,343 --> 00:42:30,181 Your Torah, your talliths. 623 00:42:40,992 --> 00:42:44,395 Let us declare the greatness of our God... 624 00:42:44,462 --> 00:42:47,032 and render honor unto the Torah. 625 00:44:22,493 --> 00:44:24,029 Professor. 626 00:44:28,867 --> 00:44:31,937 I have a present for my son. 627 00:44:34,439 --> 00:44:36,808 Would you give it to him? 628 00:44:38,376 --> 00:44:41,212 Why don't you give it to him yourself? 629 00:44:41,279 --> 00:44:44,215 "Praised be the Lord, our God...." 630 00:45:22,854 --> 00:45:24,355 My father. 631 00:45:35,366 --> 00:45:38,336 I had bought this for you a long time ago. 632 00:46:07,833 --> 00:46:10,435 Today I am thankful for many things. 633 00:46:10,501 --> 00:46:13,371 My father and mother... 634 00:46:13,438 --> 00:46:17,442 for bringing me up through these troubled times to manhood. 635 00:46:19,077 --> 00:46:22,747 We came here to escape hatred and violence... 636 00:46:22,814 --> 00:46:25,016 and have found love and friendship. 637 00:46:36,427 --> 00:46:39,998 I think the rest my father would like to say. 638 00:46:48,206 --> 00:46:51,910 This is a very proud day... 639 00:46:52,911 --> 00:46:55,546 for me and my wife. 640 00:46:58,216 --> 00:47:01,887 And I wish to thank all of you... 641 00:47:03,188 --> 00:47:05,123 for helping to make it so. 642 00:47:07,725 --> 00:47:12,330 It has restored my faith in people. 643 00:47:15,066 --> 00:47:17,035 But most of all, I wish to thank Grandfather Walton... 644 00:47:17,102 --> 00:47:20,939 for reminding me of who I am... 645 00:47:22,507 --> 00:47:24,375 and what I am. 646 00:47:25,510 --> 00:47:28,013 I promise him... 647 00:47:30,715 --> 00:47:33,351 and I promise my son... 648 00:47:34,552 --> 00:47:37,022 I shall never forget. 649 00:47:38,723 --> 00:47:41,859 [CHANTING IN JEWISH] 650 00:48:00,211 --> 00:48:01,479 By the end of that summer... 651 00:48:01,546 --> 00:48:03,281 Professor Mann had found a position... 652 00:48:03,348 --> 00:48:04,649 in the History department... 653 00:48:04,715 --> 00:48:07,752 of a university in a nearby town. 654 00:48:07,818 --> 00:48:10,488 That was nearly 40 years ago. 655 00:48:10,555 --> 00:48:13,324 But the house in which we grew up is still there... 656 00:48:13,391 --> 00:48:15,893 and my mother lives in it today. 657 00:48:15,961 --> 00:48:17,762 Often I go there in memory 658 00:48:17,828 --> 00:48:21,599 and hear again those voices from long ago. 659 00:48:21,666 --> 00:48:23,868 -Mama? -Yes, Ben. 660 00:48:23,935 --> 00:48:27,605 How did Jews get to be Jews and Baptists get to be Baptists? 661 00:48:27,672 --> 00:48:30,341 By following in their father's footsteps. 662 00:48:30,408 --> 00:48:34,045 If we follow in Daddy's footsteps, what will we be? 663 00:48:34,112 --> 00:48:36,982 You'll be a fine man. 664 00:48:37,048 --> 00:48:39,217 -John. -Huh? 665 00:48:39,284 --> 00:48:42,387 When are you going to get yourself baptized? 666 00:48:42,453 --> 00:48:46,157 Livie, this is no time of night to start that. 667 00:48:47,458 --> 00:48:49,727 Goodnight. 668 00:48:49,794 --> 00:48:51,696 Goodnight, honey. 669 00:49:01,406 --> 00:49:03,874 In a moment, some scenes from the next episode of 670 00:49:03,941 --> 00:49:05,143 The Waltons.