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It was the twelve-hour day the old man put in at the turpentine fields.

7 seconds sound clip from the Destination Freedom - The Trumpet Talks (The early life of Louis Armstrong) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:07:21 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- Will! Will... don't hit the boy.

- You're right. I don't know what's gotten into me lately. I'm all nerves, and I'm biting and snapping and fighting at every word the boy throws at me. I don't know.

- Sorry, son.

- All right, pa.

- I don't know what's wrong with me. I'm sorry I take it out on the boy.

- His father didn't know... but the 'kid' knew.

- It was the twelve-hour day the old man put in at the turpentine fields.

- It was the invisible walls that penned him in the Negro ghettos around Rampart Street...

- It was the endless search for a way out of the blind alleys he'd walked for forty years.

- And he hadn't been stirred by the sound of a brass trumpet, like me, as the kid was.

- And at night, when the moon hung over New Orleans like a silver penny you couldn't spend, the kid's mother would say...

- Louis... you going out again tonight?

- Yes, ma.

[...]

Destination Freedom Sound Clip

Destination Freedom Radio ShowQuotes with audio clips from Richard Durham's Destination Freedom old-time radio program, Radio's Black Legacy, 1948-1950.

Actors: Oscar Brown Jr., Studs Terkel, Janice Kingslow, Wezlyn Tilden

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