FDR and the Dust Bowl

Learn how President Franklin Roosevelt responded to one of the worst man-made environmental disasters in American history–the Dust Bowl. Produced by the Pare Lorentz Film Center at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, it was created by FDR's great-granddaughter Perrin Ireland, with the narration provided by CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker. Funding provided by the New York Community Trust.