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2006

"From 7:30 PM until 11:30 P.M. I was cross-examined by those three men who, at halftime were joined by apparently an inspector of that county. I will describe to you this cross-examination which was the most humiliating experience I had so far."

-Robert Frank, midway through the creation of "The Americans," sends word to his friend Walker Evans of bad goings-on in Mississippi.