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The Leonard Lopate Show

Down in the Mines

Tuesday, May 23, 2006

Coal miner Jerry Johnson remembers the violent 1973 strike against the Brookside Mine of the Eastover Mining Company in Harlan County, Kentucky, and the landmark 1976 documentary about the struggle: "Harlan County, U.S.A."


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