Collection search - Pickersgill, Jack - Interview
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Record information – Brief Pickersgill, Jack - Interview
Series title:Close UpHierarchical level:Item (Accession level)Date:1959 ?Item number (ISN):243992Type of material:Moving imagesFound in:Archives / Film, Video and Sound -
Record information – Details Fonds/collection:CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: CBOT FILM LIBRARYAccession:1996-0035Media:FilmPart:1 of 1Production date:1959 ?Production company:Canadian Broadcasting CorporationProduction credit:interviewer, Douglas LeitermanDescription:Jack Pickersgill describes how he came to work for William Lyon Mackenzie King in 1938. He talks about King's political conduct in international politics in view of King's formative years during the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth. He points out that while King may have been quoted as saying Hitler was just a simple peasant, his diaries show that King considered good and bad aspects of his personality.~Pickersgill says that he has no knowledge of King's private life between 1937 and 1950. He thought that Dr. O.D. Skelton had the greatest influence on King. Pickersgill pointed out that King was way ahead of political opinion when he first introduced unemployment insurance in his 1919 election platform.Language:EnglishNotes:Detailed holdings information: -
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