[Congressional Record Volume 143, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 26, 1997)]
[House]
[Pages H633-H634]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                  SCHINDLER'S LIST: SO WE NEVER FORGET

  (Mr. McGOVERN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. McGOVERN. Mr. Speaker, last Sunday night 65 million Americans 
watched the movie Schindler's List when it was shown without commercial 
interruption on NBC network television. At a time when there is heated 
debate over the lack of quality television programming, this movie is a 
shining example of what network television can do right.
  This award winning film depicts the horrors of the Holocaust in 
graphic and moving terms. More important, this is a true story. These 
were real events, real lives and deaths, real acts of human depravity 
and real demonstrations of human courage and dignity. These are the 
history lessons that all our children should learn, that human beings 
and their political ideology have often committed heinous crimes 
against humanity and that it must never ever happen again.
  Mr. Speaker, I am outraged by the words of one of my colleagues, who 
has said that showing this film uncut on

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television should offend ``decent-minded individuals everywhere.'' This 
is not a film where nudity and violence are gratuitous. This film is 
honest and direct, and that truth is often brutal and horrifying.
  Mr. Speaker, may we show our respect for those who survived the 
Holocaust and perished in its wake by teaching our children about the 
dark moments in our shared history and by vowing that this will never 
ever happen again.

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