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[film clicks through projector]

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[timpani roll and cymbal crash]

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[hawk screeches]

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[loud engine noise]

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[extremely loud crash]

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[metal grinding]

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[muffled voices]

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[music playing]

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[pencil scratches paper]

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[gasps]

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[quiet knocking]

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William...

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...it's awfully late.

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[music playing]

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[light clicks off]

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[knobs click]

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[tapping]

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[electricity crackling]

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[tapping]

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[click]

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[nervous voices]

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CREW: Women and children first.

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At this time, we require only women and children.

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[panicked voices]

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[tapping]

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[SOS in Morse code]

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[dramatic music]

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[crying]

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MAN: Secure your lifebelts. We're boarding now.

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[tapping and Morse code]

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[panicked voices]

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[water splashing]

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WOMAN: Come on. You can do it.

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Keep going.

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Take my hand. Come on.

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[grunting]

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MAN: Tell Titanic, we're making toward her.

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WOMAN: So cold.

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[woman exhales]

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MAN: You'll be okay, miss.

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[loud creaking]

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[eerie metal grinding]

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[music gets softer]

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[sniffling, crying]

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[deep inhale]

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[door opens]

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Good morning, sir.

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Miss Malloy.

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[Miss Malloy sniffles]

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How bad is it?

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[gasping breaths]

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It says here they're towing her to Halifax.

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[crying]

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Uh, Naval intelligence reports of a private transmission

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from the White Star Line.

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She hit an ice field in the North Atlantic

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and sank within hours.

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[sniffles]

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Survivors?

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It's believed to be less than a third.

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[sharp inhale]

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There were over 2,000 on board.

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[short breaths]

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[emotive music]

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Cancel your trip to New York, sir?

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No.

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We'll prepare a resolution authorizing an investigation,

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and I will recommend myself as the chairman of the subcommittee.

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I'll accompany you to New York.

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You'll require my assistance.

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[door closes]

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Are you traveling with anybody else?

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Miss Malloy is bringing the paperwork.

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Are you sure that's appropriate

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for the future president?

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[he laughs softly]

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Does it bother you?

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Of course, not.

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People will talk.

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Let them.

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[soft laugh]

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[lyrical music]

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When can I expect you to return?

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I have no idea, my dear.

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The only thing I know for sure is that people

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need to know what happened.

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The ship hit an iceberg.

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Oh, I shudder to think what those poor souls went through.

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But, surely, it was an act of God.

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In my experience, there are very few acts of God.

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This is the man I wish to speak to.

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[sobbing]

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[sharp inhale]

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[ship horn blares]

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[soft music]

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[sighs]

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Sheriff?

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Miss Malloy, meet Joe Bayliss, Sheriff of Chippewa County.

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Would that be upstate?

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No, ma'am.

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Oh.

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[vehicle engine idling]

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[linotype printing]

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[gears chugging]

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[banging on door]

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ALAINE RICARD: [muffled] Edith.

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Edith.

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EDITH BELL: It's been almost a week

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since I gave you that story.

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And you come in here, smelling like a chamber pot, expecting payment.

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I have it.

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I have the story.

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It's stale.

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It's worthless.

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[muffled linotype grinding]

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What do you want from me, Alaine?

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You said $1 and a quarter.

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I'll give you 90-cents for the hooker story, but that's it.

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I can't even use it.

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[coins jingling]

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What's this?

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This is the ship that sank with a bunch of rich people that died?

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Most of them were poor immigrants.

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What's the angle?

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I don't know, Alaine. Why don't you find it?

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[pencil scratching]

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And write it in my name?

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This isn't the time.

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[linotype chugging in the distance]

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[ship horn blares]

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[indistinct voices]

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[heavy footsteps]

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[police whistle]

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MAGGIE MALLOY: No, no, no, no, no, officer.

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That's Senator Smith in this motor vehicle,

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so you're the one who's going to have to back off.

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We have to park here. Off you go. Thank you.

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Now, please, tell me we have the President's blessing.

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MAGGIE MALLOY: Of course, we do.

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Mr. Taft even sent gunboats to escort the rescue ship.

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Titanic's Chairman Mr. Ismay sent messages asking for a ship

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to return the officers and crew to Europe.

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I don't think they had plans of even stepping ashore

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in America, not even the docks.

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You, sir, sir, sir, I'm looking for a list. A list.

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[indistinct] Mister Moss [indistinct]..

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Samuel Moss. Can you help me?

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Excuse me, excuse me.

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[melancholy music]

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WOMAN: ...have to come through Ellis Island.

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[camera flash bulb pops]

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[indistinct conversations]

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No, sir.

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I need to pass through.

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No, no, not till everyone's ashore.

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Ah! Oh!

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ALAINE RICARD: Watch your step.

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Let me get that for you.

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So sorry!

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Musn't fall behind, ma'am.

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Thank you.

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[breathing heavy]

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OK.

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[knocking]

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Mr. Bruce Ismay?

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For business with the White Star Line,

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speak to my agent, Mr. Franklin.

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[envelope drops]

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]What's this all about?

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WILLIAM SMITH: Mr. Ismay, you've just been served with a subpoena.

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You're required to appear before a special subcommittee

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of the United States Senate.

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BRUCE ISMAY: No, sir, I'm not. I'm a British citizen.

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WILLIAM SMITH: And I am William Alden Smith, a United States

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senator, chairman of the committee

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investigating the cause of one of the greatest

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maritime disasters in history.

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[music playing]

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The Titanic. Your ship, sir.

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I must say, you move very fast, senator.

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Very well, you have my cooperation.

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I'll speak with you at my very first opportunity.

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10:00 tomorrow morning, the East Room at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel.

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I'm sorry, Senator. That's really not possible.

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WILLIAM SMITH: Mr. Ismay, I have in my possession

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copies of your wireless telegrams

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sent from this very ship.

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It seems you were in a rush to return your crew to Europe.

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Excuse me?

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(READING) "Titanic crew aboard Carpathia

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should be returned home earliest moment possible. Stop."

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"Suggest holding Cedric.

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Sailing daylight Friday. Returning in...

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I've done nothing illegal.

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...Stop". I think it most unwise to keep Titanic crew until Saturday

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strongly urge sailing-"

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I have every right to leave this country.

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"-very important to hold Cedric for Titanic."

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Enough!

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Mr. Ismay, you and your crew will remain here until my inquiry is complete.

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And you will give the American people an accounting of your actions.

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I shall be contacting the British ambassador.

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You are welcome to contact anyone you wish,

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once you have stepped ashore and placed yourself and your crew at my disposal.

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I will not be treated like a child.

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Perhaps if you were, your seat on the lifeboat

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would have been more appropriate.

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I find that remark deeply offensive.

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What is offensive is that 1,500 of your passengers

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are dead.

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[melancholic music]

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[chair creaks]

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[speaking German]

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I have no idea what he's saying.

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-[speaking German] -Get back.

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No, no, get back.

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We're not finished with you yet.

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I don't understand. What have they done?

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They have no papers.

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Perhaps, they don't have any. They're just lucky to be alive.

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They could be steerage.

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We can't let them through with nothing.

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You are correct. They should be given food, clothing, and a warm bed.

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This is Senator Smith, Chairman of the Senate Investigative Committee.

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We have our orders, Senator.

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Yes, and they'll be changing any minute now.

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Find the Immigration Commissioner

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and have him get this process moving.

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Let these people in.

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[music playing]

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[exhales loudly]

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[pencil scratches paper]

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[scraping]

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Good morning, gentlemen.

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I'm Ambassador James Bryce with the British embassy.

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Lightoller, 2nd Officer.

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A pleasure to meet you, gentlemen.

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I'm very sorry it is under these circumstances.

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Are we going home?

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I'm afraid not at this time.

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Mr. Lowe, is it?

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Mm.

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Gentlemen, please know, this is not a trial.

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This is merely an inquiry.

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Yes, but it's being held by the US government.

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True, a senator from the state of Michigan, to be exact.

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Could it lead to a trial?

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HAROLD LOWE: Trial for what?

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We hit a bloody iceberg.

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We are not Americans.

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Explain how this is even legal.

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To be honest, I'm not exactly certain that they

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have the right to detain you.

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But Mr. JP Morgan is concerned for his ships,

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and the US Senate holds control over all the American ports.

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There is a frenzy of interest out there,

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and this man Smith is only going to make it worse.

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He's a political creature with something to prove.

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I understand. But what exactly does he want from us?

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Accountability and compensation for the victims.

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Is that all?

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Give them their compensation.

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That's what I say.

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Some of these poor devils have lost everything,

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and they had precious little to begin with.

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[clears his throat]

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They'll only be compensated if White Star and its employees are found negligent.

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Are you willing to admit to negligence, gentlemen?

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I'm sure you wish to protect your own reputations.

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Now the newspapers have not been shy of touting your heroism.

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As far as they're concerned, your behavior

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was all that could be asked of men in your position.

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In order to deem compensation appropriate,

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White Star would have to be proven criminally liable

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or at the very least reckless.

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Is that not correct, Ambassador?

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JAMES BRYCE: Indeed.

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[ominous music]

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Yeah, indeed.

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Therefore, we cannot simply ignore our collective interests, gentlemen.

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[pensive music]

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I believe all we have to state are the facts, of which we have few.

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Nothing more should be expected of us.

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WILLIAM SMITH: I believe everyone called for is present for today's proceedings.

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It is a formality that any inquiry called on by the United

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States Senate commence with the reading of a resolution

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particular to the case before it.

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Senator Newlands of the great state of Nevada, will you kindly do the honors?

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FRANCIS NEWLANDS: (READING) "In the Senate of the United

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States, April 17, 1912, that the Committee on Commerce

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or a Subcommittee thereof is hereby

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authorized and directed to investigate

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the causes leading to the wreck of the White Star liner,

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the RMS Titanic"--

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[door opens]

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--"with a view to such legislation

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as may be necessary to prevent any

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repetition of such a disaster."

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[keys jangling]

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"Resolved further that in the report of said Committee,

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it shall recommend such action as it shall deem expedient."

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Thank you, Senator Newlands.

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Mr. Ismay, for the interest of simplifying this hearing,

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I'll ask you a few preliminary questions.

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First, state your full name, please.

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Joseph Bruce Ismay.

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And your place of residence.

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Liverpool, England.

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And your age.

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BRUCE ISMAY: I shall be 50 on the 12th of December.

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49.

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Are you an executive of the White Star Line?

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I am the managing director.

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And as such executive, were you

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officially designated to make the trial trip of Titanic?

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No.

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Were you a voluntary passenger?

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BRUCE ISMAY: Yes.

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[dramatic music]

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[sniffs]

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[gasp]

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Will you kindly tell the committee the circumstances

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surrounding your voyage as succinctly as possible,

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beginning with your boarding of the vessel at Liverpool,

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together with any circumstances you feel would be

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beneficial to this committee?

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In the first place, I would like

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to express my sincere grief at this deplorable catastrophe.

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I understand you gentlemen have been

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appointed to inquire as to the circumstances

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so far as we are concerned.

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We welcome it.

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We court the fullest inquiry.

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We have nothing to conceal, nothing to hide.

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Please continue.

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[clears throat]

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(READING) The ship was built in Belfast

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by the Harland and Wolff Company.

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Absolutely no expense was spared in her construction.

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[crowd mumbling]

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You were saying.

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[crowd's mumbling softens]

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[clears throat]

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I understand it has been stated the ship was traveling at full speed.

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Titanic had never been at full speed.

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So far as I'm aware, she never exceeded 75 revolutions.

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She had not all her boilers on.

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It was our intention if we had fine weather

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on Monday afternoon and Tuesday, to drive the ship at full speed. That...

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owing to the unfortunate catastrophe, never eventuated.

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Can you describe what you did immediately

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following the impact?

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I (READING) put my coat on, made my way to the bridge,

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where I found Captain Smith.

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He said, "We have struck ice."

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I asked him if he thought the ship was seriously damaged.

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He said, "I'm afraid she is."

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I then went down below, where I met

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Mr. Bell, the chief engineer.

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He was quite satisfied the pumps would keep her afloat.

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I went up to the top deck, where I heard the orders

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given to get the lifeboats out.

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CREW: Ready the lifeboats.

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[ominous music]

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Man your stations.

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[music intensifies]

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[muffled sounds of crew readying the lifeboats]

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[muted]

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Ready the lifeboats, young man.

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Yes, sir.

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BRUCE ISMAY: I stood upon that deck practically until I left the ship

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in the starboard collapsible, which

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was the last boat to leave the ship, so far as I know.

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You stated that it was a voluntary trip on your part?

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BRUCE ISMAY: Yes, sir.

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For the purpose of viewing this ship in action

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or did you have some business in New York?

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I had no business.

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I simply came in the natural course of events, as one is apt to.

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"As one is apt to"?

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In the case of a new ship, to see how she works

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and with an idea of seeing how we could improve on her.

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Were there any other executive officers of the company on board?

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BRUCE ISMAY: No.

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Was the inspector or the builder on board?

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There was a representative of the builders,

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a Mr. Thomas Andrews.

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Was he among the survivors?

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Unfortunately, no.

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Mr. Ismay, as the only executive aboard representing

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your company, did you have the occasion

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to consult with the Captain about the movements of the ship?

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Never!

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Are you quite certain of that, Mr. Ismay?

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I-- I do not know that is quite a matter of consulting

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him or if he's consulting me, but we agreed there was nothing

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to be gained by arriving in New York

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earlier than Wednesday morning.

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But this was all arranged before we even left Queenstown.

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You spoke of the revolutions on the early part of the voyage.

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BRUCE ISMAY: Yes, sir.

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These were increased as the distance increased.

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Bring out a new ship like Titanic,

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you naturally do not start running at full speed.

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Mr. Ismay, during the voyage,

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did you have any knowledge as to your proximity to icebergs?

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Did I know that we were near icebergs?

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That was the question, yes.

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No, sir, I did not.

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I know ice had been reported.

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Ice had been reported.

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Yes.

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Did you personally see any icebergs

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or any large volume of ice?

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No, not until after the accident.

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Not until after the wreck.

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I had never seen an iceberg in my life.

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It was absolutely out of my province.

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I am not a navigator. I was simply a passenger.

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Are you aware of a wireless message

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received by Titanic from a troop transport named the SS Amerika?

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No, sir.

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Saying that she had encountered ice

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in that exact same latitude?

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No, sir.

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Were you aware of icebergs on Sunday?

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BRUCE ISMAY: On Sunday?

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No, I did not know on Sunday.

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I knew we would be in the ice region that night some time.

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That you would be or that you were?

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That we would be in the ice region on Sunday night.

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Did you consult with the Captain about this matter?

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Absolutely not.

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Mr. Ismay, will you describe in detail

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the circumstances of your departure from the ship?

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[soft music]

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(READING) The officer called out,

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asking if there were any more women,

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and there was no response.

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And none were left on deck.

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As the boat was in the act of being lowered away, I boarded.

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As the Titanic was sinking?

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(QUIETLY) Sinking, yes.

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WILLIAM SMITH: I'm sorry. We're having trouble hearing.

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(LOUDER) She was sinking.

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I must ask, were are all the women and children saved?

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I'm afraid not, sir.

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WILLIAM SMITH: What proportion were saved?

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I have no idea. I have not asked.

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After a short recess, we will be calling our next witness,

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the Captain of the Carpathia, to whom all the survivors

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of the Titanic owe their lives.

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[music intensifies]

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[muted]

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[muted]

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Senator, I do hope my testimony proved serviceable.

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If I can be of assistance in the future,

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please do not hesitate to contact my office.

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Mr. Ismay, I wouldn't advise making any plans for the immediate future.

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Mr. Smith, if you are determined

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to continue with this farce, I suppose there's little I can do about it.

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However, I shall be leaving now.

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I'm not discounting the gravity of this situation,

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but I can assure you my conscience is clear.

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[soft music]

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[women whispering]

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Do you know who that is?

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Countess of Rothes, first-class passenger.

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This man is a hero by all accounts.

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I recommend this be handled delicately.

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He's a ship captain with relevant experience,

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and he was the first one on the scene.

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Please state your name and title.

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Arthur H. Rostron, Captain of the RMS Carpathia.

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I will start at the heart of the matter.

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I suppose you were looking forward to sailing to your original destination.

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Thank you, Senator.

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I hope I can be of assistance.

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Will you walk us through the events

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leading up to receiving word that Titanic was in trouble?

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Of course.

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It was Sunday around midnight.

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We had fine, clear weather.

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Everything was going on without trouble of any kind.

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Then at 12:35 AM, I was informed of an urgent distress signal

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from the Titanic, requiring immediate assistance.

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Informed by whom?

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By a wireless operator and the First Officer.

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I'd only just turned in.

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Please continue.

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I asked the operator if he was absolutely

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sure it was a distress signal.

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I asked him twice.

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He assured me he was certain of the message, and I immediately set course.

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I told the chief engineer to call another watch of stokers

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and make all possible speed to the Titanic, as she was in trouble.

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I then sent for the head of each department

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and had them brought to my cabin.

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I ordered the rockets be fired at 2:45 and every quarter

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of an hour after to reassure Titanic.

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We would like you to leave a copy of that order

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with the committee, if you will.

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00:30:56,921 --> 00:30:58,423
Yes, sir, I shall do it with pleasure.

504
00:30:59,891 --> 00:31:01,426
Thank you, Captain.

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You may go on.

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At about that time, I saw a flare off the port bow,

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a half-point off the port bow.

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00:31:15,440 --> 00:31:17,976
I assumed correctly it was Titanic herself.

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I remarked that she must still be afloat.

510
00:31:23,381 --> 00:31:27,185
Between 2:45 and 4 o'clock when I stopped my engines,

511
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we were passing icebergs on every side.

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At 4 o'clock, I stopped.

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00:31:33,358 --> 00:31:36,261
And by 4:10, we had the first lifeboat alongside.

514
00:31:37,428 --> 00:31:39,964
You are picking up these people now?

515
00:31:41,332 --> 00:31:42,233
Yes.

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[pencil scratching paper]

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WILLIAM SMITH: Will you describe that for us, please?

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By the time we had the first lifeboat,

519
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it was breaking day.

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00:31:52,744 --> 00:31:53,745
And I could--

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I could see the remaining boats all around within an area

522
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of about four miles.

523
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I saw also that I was surrounded by icebergs.

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00:32:05,390 --> 00:32:06,991
They were anywhere from...

525
00:32:07,125 --> 00:32:12,463
[clears throat] 150 to 200-feet high and numerous smaller bergs.

526
00:32:14,399 --> 00:32:15,967
I maneuvered the ship and gradually

527
00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:19,604
got all boats alongside and all the people aboard by 8:30.

528
00:32:22,507 --> 00:32:24,309
I was then very close to where Titanic

529
00:32:24,442 --> 00:32:31,983
must have gone down, as there was a lot of hardly wreckage.

530
00:32:33,751 --> 00:32:36,821
Then the Leyland Line steamer Californian hove up.

531
00:32:37,221 --> 00:32:39,057
We exchanged messages.

532
00:32:39,757 --> 00:32:41,893
I told them the Titanic had gone down,

533
00:32:42,026 --> 00:32:43,761
that I had her passengers.

534
00:32:45,897 --> 00:32:47,966
They asked if they should search around,

535
00:32:48,099 --> 00:32:51,536
and I said, yes, as we weren't certain we could account for all the boats.

536
00:32:52,737 --> 00:32:54,372
It was then 10:50.

537
00:32:55,873 --> 00:32:57,041
I'd like to go back again...

538
00:32:57,175 --> 00:32:58,776
[clears throat] a little bit.

539
00:32:59,344 --> 00:33:01,779
At 8:30, all the people were on board.

540
00:33:02,280 --> 00:33:06,517
I asked the purser to hold a service, a short prayer

541
00:33:06,651 --> 00:33:10,421
of thankfulness for those who were saved, a short burial

542
00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:12,290
service for those who lost.

543
00:33:12,423 --> 00:33:13,691
[indistinct echoes]

544
00:33:13,825 --> 00:33:15,827
MAN: (MUFFLED) Hallowed be Thy name.

545
00:33:15,960 --> 00:33:17,462
Thy Kingdom come.

546
00:33:17,595 --> 00:33:21,065
Thy will be done in Earth as it is in heaven.

547
00:33:21,733 --> 00:33:23,034
Floating, sir.

548
00:33:23,167 --> 00:33:24,769
It was the only body we saw.

549
00:33:26,838 --> 00:33:29,040
Was it male or female?

550
00:33:30,341 --> 00:33:32,510
Male, member of the crew, I believe.

551
00:33:33,945 --> 00:33:35,980
Titanic's passengers were still knocking about on deck,

552
00:33:36,114 --> 00:33:39,350
and I didn't want to cause any unnecessary excitement

553
00:33:39,484 --> 00:33:44,055
or hysteria, so I steamed past.

554
00:33:45,456 --> 00:33:48,960
Captain, can you tell us how many lifeboats

555
00:33:49,093 --> 00:33:50,728
you came across in total?

556
00:33:50,862 --> 00:33:54,032
We had 15 lifeboats alongside with passengers.

557
00:33:54,832 --> 00:33:58,302
There was also a Berthon Boat, which is collapsible.

558
00:33:58,436 --> 00:33:59,904
It had been abandoned. It was...

559
00:34:00,038 --> 00:34:02,874
badly damaged. It was in a sinking condition.

560
00:34:03,374 --> 00:34:05,276
There was-- there was nobody in it.

561
00:34:05,410 --> 00:34:06,744
It was empty.

562
00:34:07,712 --> 00:34:10,214
How many people could that have held?

563
00:34:10,982 --> 00:34:12,784
60 to 75 comfortably.

564
00:34:17,655 --> 00:34:19,290
Captain, have you concluded that you did not

565
00:34:19,424 --> 00:34:21,526
see the ill-fated ship at all?

566
00:34:22,794 --> 00:34:25,530
We arrived an hour and a half after she went down.

567
00:34:27,165 --> 00:34:28,566
[loud exhale]

568
00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:32,503
In your company, who was the master of a ship at sea?

569
00:34:33,871 --> 00:34:35,039
The Captain.

570
00:34:35,173 --> 00:34:36,841
WILLIAM SMITH: In absolute control?

571
00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:39,844
Absolute control, legal and otherwise. No one can interfere.

572
00:34:40,711 --> 00:34:42,847
And if that had not been so, you

573
00:34:42,980 --> 00:34:45,817
would not have felt it proper to have gone off your course quite so far.

574
00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:47,885
Correct.

575
00:34:48,453 --> 00:34:50,521
Do you regard the route the Titanic was

576
00:34:50,655 --> 00:34:53,191
taking as entirely practical and appropriate

577
00:34:53,324 --> 00:34:54,625
at this time of year?

578
00:34:54,859 --> 00:34:55,827
Quite so.

579
00:34:56,427 --> 00:34:58,429
Even having the warning

580
00:34:58,563 --> 00:35:00,765
that icebergs were in the vicinity,

581
00:35:01,532 --> 00:35:02,934
could he not under the circumstances

582
00:35:03,067 --> 00:35:05,903
have altered his course somewhat to avoid them?

583
00:35:06,337 --> 00:35:08,573
That's impossible for me to tell. Uh,

584
00:35:08,906 --> 00:35:11,209
all I can say is that he was on the track

585
00:35:11,342 --> 00:35:13,911
for the western-bound steamer, his proper track

586
00:35:14,045 --> 00:35:15,313
where he ought to have been.

587
00:35:15,446 --> 00:35:17,014
At this time of year.

588
00:35:17,248 --> 00:35:18,416
At this time of year.

589
00:35:18,883 --> 00:35:20,718
So what would be a safe reasonable speed

590
00:35:20,852 --> 00:35:23,621
for a vessel of that size on such a route

591
00:35:23,754 --> 00:35:26,357
in the proximity of icebergs?

592
00:35:27,658 --> 00:35:29,494
Well, of course, I do not know the ship.

593
00:35:29,627 --> 00:35:31,362
I know absolutely nothing about her.

594
00:35:31,829 --> 00:35:34,298
WILLIAM SMITH: But how would you have felt yourself about it?

595
00:35:34,432 --> 00:35:37,869
Suppose you were taking your ship on that route.

596
00:35:39,437 --> 00:35:41,906
How fast would you have thought it prudent to go

597
00:35:42,039 --> 00:35:43,508
in such a situation?

598
00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:45,877
All I can tell you is this, gentlemen.

599
00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:47,545
I knew there was ice about.

600
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:50,915
How did you know that?

601
00:35:51,949 --> 00:35:55,353
From Titanic's message, that she'd struck ice.

602
00:35:59,323 --> 00:36:03,461
And, yet, you still went full speed.

603
00:36:04,729 --> 00:36:05,696
I did.

604
00:36:08,933 --> 00:36:10,635
Captain Rostron, how many lifeboats

605
00:36:10,768 --> 00:36:12,837
do you carry on the Carpathia?

606
00:36:12,970 --> 00:36:14,272
We carry 20.

607
00:36:15,072 --> 00:36:18,676
In obedience to certain regulations of the British Board of Trade.

608
00:36:20,077 --> 00:36:22,346
I think it's 20, yes.

609
00:36:22,480 --> 00:36:24,615
The fact that, under these regulations,

610
00:36:24,749 --> 00:36:26,651
you are obliged to carry 20 lifeboats

611
00:36:26,784 --> 00:36:30,188
and the Titanic is only obliged to carry 20

612
00:36:30,321 --> 00:36:35,092
with three times the tonnage suggests that these regulations

613
00:36:35,226 --> 00:36:36,527
were prescribed long ago.

614
00:36:36,661 --> 00:36:38,896
No, sir, it's to do with the ship itself.

615
00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:44,902
Uh, they're built nowadays to be practically unsinkable,

616
00:36:45,036 --> 00:36:49,140
and so each ship is supposed to be a lifeboat in itself.

617
00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:52,577
The lifeboats are put on merely as a standby.

618
00:36:54,445 --> 00:36:56,747
[whispering] The ship is a lifeboat?

619
00:36:59,917 --> 00:37:01,886
[rattling]

620
00:37:05,122 --> 00:37:06,824
[doorknob turns]

621
00:37:17,868 --> 00:37:21,372
[dramatic music]

622
00:37:57,008 --> 00:37:59,877
You say, Captain, that you ran under a full head of steam

623
00:38:00,011 --> 00:38:01,545
toward Titanic.

624
00:38:02,480 --> 00:38:04,749
I-- I can confess only this.

625
00:38:05,216 --> 00:38:09,420
If I'd known at the time there was so much ice about,

626
00:38:09,553 --> 00:38:10,755
I should not.

627
00:38:11,689 --> 00:38:13,124
But I was right in it then.

628
00:38:14,258 --> 00:38:16,761
I also had to consider what I was going for.

629
00:38:19,196 --> 00:38:22,500
[water dripping]

630
00:38:42,219 --> 00:38:43,788
[loud crash]

631
00:38:58,135 --> 00:38:59,770
ARTHUR ROSTRON: I'll tell you this.

632
00:39:00,771 --> 00:39:04,075
Our wireless operator was in his cabin,

633
00:39:04,942 --> 00:39:06,877
not on official business at all.

634
00:39:07,011 --> 00:39:09,547
He was simply listening as he was undressing.

635
00:39:10,281 --> 00:39:13,751
Another 10 minutes maybe, he would have been in bed.

636
00:39:13,884 --> 00:39:15,619
We would have missed the message.

637
00:39:17,888 --> 00:39:19,857
Remarkable coincidence.

638
00:39:23,961 --> 00:39:27,765
Captain, if you take the case of the Titanic, whose tonnage

639
00:39:27,898 --> 00:39:32,002
was far more than that of your ship, which had,

640
00:39:32,136 --> 00:39:36,240
I believe, the same number of lifeboats, in your opinion,

641
00:39:36,374 --> 00:39:40,010
how many additional boats could that vessel accommodate

642
00:39:40,144 --> 00:39:41,912
without inconvenience?

643
00:39:43,547 --> 00:39:46,951
I have not the faintest idea, sir, what the Titanic was like.

644
00:39:47,451 --> 00:39:50,488
I believe she's the sister ship of the Olympic, which I once

645
00:39:50,621 --> 00:39:51,722
saw at the end of our dock.

646
00:39:51,856 --> 00:39:53,257
You think she could accommodate

647
00:39:53,391 --> 00:39:55,559
considerably more, do you not?

648
00:39:56,694 --> 00:39:59,697
If she could not accommodate them, she could be made to accommodate them.

649
00:40:00,698 --> 00:40:03,067
How do you account for the fact that the Board of Trade of England,

650
00:40:03,200 --> 00:40:04,969
as the size of these ships has increased,

651
00:40:05,102 --> 00:40:08,973
has not compelled an increase in the number of lifeboats?

652
00:40:09,840 --> 00:40:14,345
The maximum, I believe, is 20 boats, is it not?

653
00:40:14,478 --> 00:40:18,449
Uh, yes, I believe it is. But they have compelled a different design of the ship.

654
00:40:19,483 --> 00:40:21,585
Captain Rostron, please confirm.

655
00:40:22,153 --> 00:40:25,956
They consider the ship itself as a lifeboat?

656
00:40:28,993 --> 00:40:30,194
Yes, sir.

657
00:40:31,996 --> 00:40:36,233
That expectation was certainly not realized with Titanic.

658
00:40:42,573 --> 00:40:44,508
I believe that is all, Captain.

659
00:40:45,075 --> 00:40:46,977
I want to thank you for your courtesy

660
00:40:47,111 --> 00:40:48,946
in appearing before this committee.

661
00:40:50,281 --> 00:40:54,185
You're, you're welcome, sir. If there's anything further I can do, I shall be very glad.

662
00:40:57,555 --> 00:41:00,558
[soft music]

663
00:41:04,161 --> 00:41:06,230
That's a good first day, wasn't it?

664
00:41:09,366 --> 00:41:10,601
Can I get you anything?

665
00:41:11,035 --> 00:41:15,206
A drink, if you don't mind.

666
00:41:21,879 --> 00:41:25,549
[music intensifies]

667
00:41:32,156 --> 00:41:33,524
ARTHUR PEUCHEN: Outrageous!

668
00:41:33,657 --> 00:41:35,993
That lifeboat was full of women.

669
00:41:36,126 --> 00:41:39,864
I slid down that rope to help them row to safety.

670
00:41:39,997 --> 00:41:41,599
I felt it was my duty.

671
00:41:42,299 --> 00:41:44,201
[screaming]

672
00:41:48,873 --> 00:41:50,508
MAN: Major Peuchen, can you comment

673
00:41:50,641 --> 00:41:53,978
on as to the recent activities of Standard Chemical in Europe?

674
00:41:54,111 --> 00:41:58,349
Oh, by the way, gentlemen, anybody see my wallet?

675
00:41:58,482 --> 00:41:59,917
Excuse me, excuse me.

676
00:42:00,351 --> 00:42:01,185
MAN: Major!

677
00:42:01,552 --> 00:42:03,187
Major! Major !

678
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:13,931
Whiskey, please, Bushmills.

679
00:42:14,431 --> 00:42:15,633
I'm sorry, ma'am.

680
00:42:15,766 --> 00:42:17,735
This area is reserved for gentlemen.

681
00:42:18,135 --> 00:42:19,770
If you take a seat at one of those tables,

682
00:42:19,904 --> 00:42:22,540
I'd be happy to send someone over to take care of you.

683
00:42:23,407 --> 00:42:25,676
Would you prefer the Senator come over so you could explain

684
00:42:25,809 --> 00:42:27,811
why he's waiting for his drink?

685
00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:46,697
[thump of empty glass] [coughs]

686
00:42:47,197 --> 00:42:47,831
Thank you.

687
00:42:47,965 --> 00:42:49,633
Now one for the Senator.

688
00:42:57,808 --> 00:43:02,913
[ominous music]

689
00:43:11,822 --> 00:43:14,325
Dear Senator,

690
00:43:14,458 --> 00:43:17,861
I wish to applaud your effort.

691
00:43:19,229 --> 00:43:20,264
Thank you.

692
00:43:21,198 --> 00:43:24,068
However, if you want my opinion,

693
00:43:24,201 --> 00:43:27,738
there are areas of greater concern.

694
00:43:28,172 --> 00:43:29,206
I'm sorry.

695
00:43:29,974 --> 00:43:31,675
Have we been introduced?

696
00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:38,349
Oh, forgive me, I am Duchess Asconti Arese.

697
00:43:44,254 --> 00:43:45,990
Mr. Senator,

698
00:43:46,824 --> 00:43:50,928
my concern is with all those women being

699
00:43:51,061 --> 00:43:54,098
let in without their husbands.

700
00:43:54,231 --> 00:43:57,568
What is this law of the sea?

701
00:43:58,235 --> 00:44:01,472
There were notable men on that ship, worth more than a 100

702
00:44:01,605 --> 00:44:03,240
of those immigrant women.

703
00:44:03,607 --> 00:44:07,411
Why, Mr. Astor, for example, are we not enjoying

704
00:44:07,544 --> 00:44:10,047
his illustrious accommodations?

705
00:44:10,781 --> 00:44:11,749
Hmm?

706
00:44:14,084 --> 00:44:15,285
Senator,

707
00:44:17,287 --> 00:44:21,258
we all know these people, how they arrive here

708
00:44:21,392 --> 00:44:24,728
in America, unable to speak the language,

709
00:44:24,862 --> 00:44:26,697
illiterate as they are.

710
00:44:27,364 --> 00:44:29,199
To ask some of the fine men on that boat

711
00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:32,302
to stand back while those people are saved,

712
00:44:32,436 --> 00:44:33,871
I think it's criminal.

713
00:44:34,171 --> 00:44:38,742
What good will they be, a burden to the state is all.

714
00:44:40,611 --> 00:44:41,412
[laughs]

715
00:44:41,545 --> 00:44:43,113
But who am I to say?

716
00:44:43,247 --> 00:44:44,214
[laughing]

717
00:44:44,848 --> 00:44:46,216
Who, indeed.

718
00:44:48,719 --> 00:44:49,953
[sharp inhale]

719
00:44:50,888 --> 00:44:52,923
Good day, ladies.

720
00:45:12,176 --> 00:45:14,445
Thank you. I've had enough opinions for the day.

721
00:45:14,578 --> 00:45:16,246
Sir, it's about your meeting with Mr. Ismay.

722
00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:18,315
WILLIAM SMITH: Media coverage is to be expected.

723
00:45:18,449 --> 00:45:20,117
Aboard the Carpathia.

724
00:45:24,988 --> 00:45:28,258
Why would Ismay want this in the paper?

725
00:45:29,493 --> 00:45:30,794
I can't imagine.

726
00:45:32,029 --> 00:45:34,798
This man, find him.

727
00:45:44,441 --> 00:45:45,409
WOMAN: Excuse me.

728
00:45:45,542 --> 00:45:46,543
ALAINE RICARD: Oh, watch your step.

729
00:45:46,677 --> 00:45:47,745
Let me get that for you.

730
00:45:47,878 --> 00:45:48,912
So sorry.

731
00:45:49,046 --> 00:45:50,914
Musn't fall behind ma'am.

732
00:45:52,049 --> 00:45:55,185
[dramatic music]

733
00:46:28,051 --> 00:46:31,121
[music intensifies]

734
00:46:52,543 --> 00:46:56,013
[footsteps quicken]

735
00:47:19,603 --> 00:47:20,871
[elevator bell dings]

736
00:47:24,575 --> 00:47:27,311
[music intensifies]

737
00:47:27,444 --> 00:47:28,512
[gasps]

738
00:47:29,813 --> 00:47:33,383
[punching and kicking]

739
00:47:40,557 --> 00:47:42,659
[soft cry]

740
00:47:49,466 --> 00:47:51,935
Give my regards to Mr. Morgan.

741
00:48:08,819 --> 00:48:11,855
[dramatic music]

742
00:48:11,989 --> 00:48:14,124
[muted]

743
00:48:20,797 --> 00:48:24,067
[tapping]

744
00:48:27,504 --> 00:48:29,439
[muted]

745
00:48:30,974 --> 00:48:33,443
[electricity crackling]

746
00:48:39,016 --> 00:48:40,317
[sniffs]

747
00:49:00,137 --> 00:49:02,439
[indistinct chatter]

748
00:49:02,572 --> 00:49:03,907
Harold S. Bride.

749
00:49:04,041 --> 00:49:07,210
Mr. Phillips, the chief radio operator, did not survive.

750
00:49:20,023 --> 00:49:21,591
[knocking]

751
00:49:24,027 --> 00:49:28,498
Mr. Bride, as the single surviving radio operator of the Titanic,

752
00:49:28,632 --> 00:49:32,002
were you aware of any White Star officers aboard the ship?

753
00:49:32,769 --> 00:49:35,372
The Titanic was commanded by White Star officers.

754
00:49:36,540 --> 00:49:38,875
I understand. But were you aware of any general officers?

755
00:49:39,009 --> 00:49:40,177
HAROLD BRIDE: Any what, sir?

756
00:49:40,677 --> 00:49:43,547
Any general officers of the White Star Line?

757
00:49:44,314 --> 00:49:48,251
We had heard Mr. Ismay was on board. But beyond that, I do not know anything.

758
00:49:48,819 --> 00:49:49,753
You knew of this man?

759
00:49:49,886 --> 00:49:51,088
HAROLD BRIDE: Yes, sir.

760
00:49:51,221 --> 00:49:52,789
Did you see him aboard the Titanic?

761
00:49:54,324 --> 00:49:55,993
I do not think I did, sir.

762
00:49:56,760 --> 00:50:00,630
Did he send or receive any messages through you during the voyage?

763
00:50:01,264 --> 00:50:07,070
I believe there were messages delivered from Mr. Ismay, sir.

764
00:50:07,671 --> 00:50:09,339
WILLIAM SMITH: Official messages?

765
00:50:09,473 --> 00:50:12,242
They would have ranked with us as official messages.

766
00:50:12,809 --> 00:50:16,146
Did they have to do with the direction or speed of the ship?

767
00:50:16,813 --> 00:50:18,982
HAROLD BRIDE: Uh, coming around from Belfast,

768
00:50:19,116 --> 00:50:21,618
there were messages delivered to Mr. Ismay regarding the speed of the ship.

769
00:50:21,752 --> 00:50:24,054
To whom were they sent, do you remember?

770
00:50:25,522 --> 00:50:29,059
Uh, the White Star offices at Liverpool and Southampton.

771
00:50:29,726 --> 00:50:31,094
WILLIAM SMITH: And do you know what they said?

772
00:50:32,029 --> 00:50:35,332
[stutters] That the trials of the speed of the ship

773
00:50:35,465 --> 00:50:37,000
were very favorable.

774
00:50:37,868 --> 00:50:41,605
Were there any other messages for Mr. Ismay during that time?

775
00:50:42,906 --> 00:50:45,442
I could not tell you. We had too many to remember them all.

776
00:50:45,809 --> 00:50:47,711
If you received a message for the managing

777
00:50:47,844 --> 00:50:51,615
director of the company, one might think you would remember it.

778
00:50:53,617 --> 00:50:56,186
Do you recall whether the captain of the ship

779
00:50:56,319 --> 00:50:59,222
received any messages on Saturday or Sunday

780
00:50:59,356 --> 00:51:00,824
from any White Star official,

781
00:51:00,957 --> 00:51:04,194
regarding the movement, direction, or speed of the ship?

782
00:51:04,327 --> 00:51:06,196
HAROLD BRIDE: No, sir, he did not.

783
00:51:07,297 --> 00:51:08,799
And how do you know he did not?

784
00:51:09,433 --> 00:51:10,867
Because I should have delivered it.

785
00:51:11,201 --> 00:51:13,637
I saw the Captain's messages. I was...

786
00:51:14,805 --> 00:51:17,507
Delivering them for my superior, the late Mr. Phillips.

787
00:51:17,974 --> 00:51:22,345
But you were not on duty the entire time during those two days, were you?

788
00:51:22,846 --> 00:51:24,815
HAROLD BRIDE: No, sir.

789
00:51:24,948 --> 00:51:27,384
So you cannot say with any certainty that such a message was not received.

790
00:51:30,020 --> 00:51:33,523
Mr. Bride, were you on duty when a message

791
00:51:33,657 --> 00:51:36,259
was received from the Amerika warning

792
00:51:36,393 --> 00:51:38,562
about the proximity of icebergs?

793
00:51:41,131 --> 00:51:42,332
No, sir.

794
00:51:43,133 --> 00:51:47,938
And did you talk to the Captain about any messages similar in nature?

795
00:51:48,805 --> 00:51:51,441
There was a message delivered to the Captain in the afternoon,

796
00:51:51,575 --> 00:51:53,543
sir, late in the afternoon.

797
00:51:56,246 --> 00:51:57,347
Sunday, April 14th?

798
00:51:57,481 --> 00:51:59,516
-Yes, sir. -Regarding an ice field?

799
00:52:00,150 --> 00:52:02,219
From whom, Mr. Bride?

800
00:52:02,352 --> 00:52:04,121
From the Californian, sir.

801
00:52:04,254 --> 00:52:06,256
WILLIAM SMITH: I would like to know just what that message said.

802
00:52:06,990 --> 00:52:09,693
The Californian called me with an ice report.

803
00:52:10,026 --> 00:52:12,662
I was rather busy, just for the minute, and I didn't take it.

804
00:52:12,796 --> 00:52:16,666
She then transmitted the ice report to the Baltic, and I took it down.

805
00:52:19,269 --> 00:52:21,571
So unable to reach your ship,

806
00:52:22,205 --> 00:52:23,874
they attempted the Baltic.

807
00:52:24,608 --> 00:52:26,943
HAROLD BRIDE: It was about half an hour after that.

808
00:52:27,744 --> 00:52:30,647
-They transmitted-- -Why were they unable to reach you?

809
00:52:31,815 --> 00:52:34,518
I was doing some writing at the time,

810
00:52:34,651 --> 00:52:37,120
sir, the accounts of the day.

811
00:52:37,654 --> 00:52:41,625
WILLIAM SMITH: And the earphones did not remain on your head at the time?

812
00:52:42,125 --> 00:52:43,126
No, sir.

813
00:52:44,394 --> 00:52:48,064
So you continue your work on the accounts, if I understand you correctly.

814
00:52:48,198 --> 00:52:49,533
HAROLD BRIDE: Yes, sir.

815
00:52:49,666 --> 00:52:51,301
And do not respond to the Californian's call

816
00:52:51,434 --> 00:52:54,137
for 30 minutes approximately.

817
00:52:54,804 --> 00:52:59,709
It would have been somewhere between 20 and 30 minutes. I cannot say definitely.

818
00:53:01,111 --> 00:53:04,814
WILLIAM SMITH: Please tell us the exact language of that message.

819
00:53:06,783 --> 00:53:09,586
It stated the Californian had passed three large icebergs

820
00:53:09,719 --> 00:53:11,321
and gave their latitude and longitude.

821
00:53:11,454 --> 00:53:15,025
They had passed three large icebergs.

822
00:53:15,859 --> 00:53:19,396
And did the Captain ultimately receive this message?

823
00:53:22,165 --> 00:53:23,500
Yes, sir.

824
00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:28,004
And at no time did the Captain go overboard

825
00:53:28,138 --> 00:53:29,940
before when the ship sank?

826
00:53:30,073 --> 00:53:31,341
HAROLD BRIDE: No, sir.

827
00:53:33,343 --> 00:53:34,744
He went down with the ship?

828
00:53:36,947 --> 00:53:38,815
Practically speaking, yes, sir.

829
00:53:38,949 --> 00:53:40,684
WILLIAM SMITH: Mr. Bride, let's discuss

830
00:53:40,817 --> 00:53:43,720
your communication with another ship, the SS Frankfurt.

831
00:53:44,521 --> 00:53:48,158
Do you know whether her radio operator spoke the English language?

832
00:53:49,226 --> 00:53:51,561
There was no necessity that he should understand

833
00:53:51,695 --> 00:53:53,230
the English language, sir.

834
00:53:53,363 --> 00:53:55,131
CQD is an international call.

835
00:53:55,665 --> 00:53:59,302
And CQD means the same in German and French and the English language?

836
00:53:59,436 --> 00:54:00,704
HAROLD BRIDE: Yes, sir.

837
00:54:00,837 --> 00:54:03,106
And is the international code signal of distress.

838
00:54:03,506 --> 00:54:04,507
HAROLD BRIDE: Yes, sir.

839
00:54:05,108 --> 00:54:08,211
It is recognizable by all ship operators.

840
00:54:08,345 --> 00:54:10,213
Mr. Bride, I want this report

841
00:54:10,347 --> 00:54:14,784
to be as complete as possible. So I need to know why, having received

842
00:54:14,918 --> 00:54:17,854
a message from the Frankfurt, saying, "What is the matter?"

843
00:54:17,988 --> 00:54:20,323
You did not respond, "We are sinking."

844
00:54:20,957 --> 00:54:24,661
-You see-- -"And our passengers and our crew are in danger."

845
00:54:27,564 --> 00:54:28,932
You see, it takes a certain amount of time

846
00:54:29,065 --> 00:54:32,102
to transmit all that information, sir.

847
00:54:32,902 --> 00:54:35,472
If he had understood properly, as he ought to have,

848
00:54:35,605 --> 00:54:38,441
CQD would have been sufficient, sir.

849
00:54:40,610 --> 00:54:43,380
That does not seem to have moved him.

850
00:54:46,850 --> 00:54:48,952
Well, he did not know his business.

851
00:54:52,022 --> 00:54:55,625
That is a rather hollow point considering how things turned out.

852
00:55:00,764 --> 00:55:02,599
2nd Officer Lightoller,

853
00:55:03,333 --> 00:55:04,934
during the voyage of the Titanic,

854
00:55:05,068 --> 00:55:08,138
were there any tests taken of the temperature of the water?

855
00:55:08,838 --> 00:55:10,373
Tests are taken every two hours,

856
00:55:10,507 --> 00:55:13,543
from the time the ship leaves until she returns to port.

857
00:55:13,677 --> 00:55:15,712
And do you know whether these tests were made?

858
00:55:16,346 --> 00:55:17,480
They were.

859
00:55:17,614 --> 00:55:18,281
WILLIAM SMITH: Did you make them?

860
00:55:18,415 --> 00:55:19,482
Oh, no, sir.

861
00:55:20,183 --> 00:55:21,751
Were they made under your direction?

862
00:55:21,885 --> 00:55:23,286
CHARLES LIGHTOLLER: No, sir.

863
00:55:23,420 --> 00:55:24,721
Then how do you know they were made?

864
00:55:25,622 --> 00:55:27,257
It's the routine of the ship, sir.

865
00:55:27,757 --> 00:55:29,626
So you assumed they were made.

866
00:55:29,759 --> 00:55:33,997
-Yes, sir. -But you cannot, of your own knowledge, say that they were.

867
00:55:34,731 --> 00:55:36,900
Not of my own actual seeing, no, sir.

868
00:55:37,033 --> 00:55:40,970
And these tests are taken to ascertain the proximity of icebergs?

869
00:55:42,205 --> 00:55:43,506
No, sir.

870
00:55:45,075 --> 00:55:47,777
So for what purpose were the tests made?

871
00:55:48,311 --> 00:55:49,913
It's the routine of the ship.

872
00:55:51,081 --> 00:55:54,284
It's customary in the White Star Line to do so every two hours.

873
00:55:54,851 --> 00:55:58,955
And the information was not communicated to you directly after each test?

874
00:55:59,289 --> 00:56:00,924
Not unless I ask for it.

875
00:56:01,057 --> 00:56:03,393
And you didn't think it necessary to ask for it that night?

876
00:56:03,526 --> 00:56:05,128
CHARLES LIGHTOLLER: No, sir.

877
00:56:05,261 --> 00:56:07,864
You knew you were in the vicinity of icebergs, did you not?

878
00:56:09,165 --> 00:56:12,035
Well, a temperature is absolutely no guide to icebergs, sir.

879
00:56:12,168 --> 00:56:14,104
WILLIAM SMITH: I did not ask you that, Mr. Lightoller.

880
00:56:14,237 --> 00:56:17,240
Did you know you were in the vicinity of icebergs?

881
00:56:17,374 --> 00:56:18,875
CHARLES LIGHTOLLER: No, sir.

882
00:56:19,008 --> 00:56:20,944
Did you know of a wireless message from the SS America

883
00:56:21,077 --> 00:56:24,614
to Titanic warning you that you were in the vicinity of icebergs?

884
00:56:25,448 --> 00:56:29,085
Whether I knew it or not, I was in no position to alter our course, sir.

885
00:56:30,754 --> 00:56:32,689
Mr. Lightoller, you must have been painfully aware

886
00:56:32,822 --> 00:56:34,290
of the fact that there were not enough

887
00:56:34,424 --> 00:56:36,993
lifeboats to care for that large of a passenger list,

888
00:56:37,127 --> 00:56:38,194
were you not?

889
00:56:40,930 --> 00:56:42,065
Yes, sir.

890
00:56:43,800 --> 00:56:47,504
And from what you've said, you discriminated entirely

891
00:56:47,637 --> 00:56:50,039
in the interest of the passengers,

892
00:56:50,473 --> 00:56:53,343
first the women and children, in filling those lifeboats.

893
00:56:53,476 --> 00:56:54,644
CHARLES LIGHTOLLER: Yes, sir.

894
00:56:55,311 --> 00:56:57,080
Why did you do that?

895
00:56:58,148 --> 00:57:01,918
Captain's orders or the rule of the sea?

896
00:57:04,287 --> 00:57:06,055
Rule of human nature.

897
00:57:10,293 --> 00:57:13,563
And there was no studied purpose, as far you know,

898
00:57:14,197 --> 00:57:15,632
to save the crew?

899
00:57:17,534 --> 00:57:18,701
Absolutely not.

900
00:57:20,603 --> 00:57:23,406
And did you witness the attempt to get women to enter

901
00:57:23,540 --> 00:57:25,241
the lifeboats who would not go?

902
00:57:29,913 --> 00:57:30,613
Yes, sir.

903
00:57:31,581 --> 00:57:34,117
WILLIAM SMITH: They were asking their husbands to join them.

904
00:57:39,823 --> 00:57:41,157
They all did.

905
00:57:45,094 --> 00:57:47,530
[screaming]

906
00:57:47,664 --> 00:57:49,199
[water splashing]

907
00:57:50,233 --> 00:57:51,334
MAN: No! Help!

908
00:57:51,468 --> 00:57:52,302
WOMAN: Stop it!

909
00:57:52,435 --> 00:57:53,703
There's no room!

910
00:57:54,337 --> 00:57:55,238
MAN: We can't.

911
00:57:55,705 --> 00:57:57,240
MAN: It'll overturn the boat.

912
00:57:58,708 --> 00:58:00,677
[screaming]

913
00:58:02,178 --> 00:58:04,681
WOMAN: Why are you leaving us?

914
00:58:16,659 --> 00:58:18,228
Looked like that when I found her.

915
00:58:21,130 --> 00:58:22,165
Who is this?

916
00:58:23,800 --> 00:58:25,268
Richard Allen.

917
00:58:27,971 --> 00:58:30,006
Alaine Ricard, Senator.

918
00:58:30,306 --> 00:58:31,307
Pleased to meet you.

919
00:58:31,875 --> 00:58:33,243
Would you see to it that the witnesses

920
00:58:33,376 --> 00:58:36,312
are made aware the inquiry is moving to Washington?

921
00:58:38,114 --> 00:58:39,582
No one goes home.

922
00:58:50,894 --> 00:58:54,030
So, Alaine Ricard, Richard Allen, whoever you are,

923
00:58:55,431 --> 00:58:58,234
I believe you know my assistant, Miss Malloy.

924
00:59:00,270 --> 00:59:02,805
I don't think we've been formally introduced.

925
00:59:03,640 --> 00:59:05,909
WILLIAM SMITH: My question is, what do you hope to accomplish

926
00:59:06,042 --> 00:59:08,011
with this type of journalism.

927
00:59:11,614 --> 00:59:12,916
I don't follow.

928
00:59:13,750 --> 00:59:16,286
Does selling newspapers outweigh morality?

929
00:59:19,155 --> 00:59:21,891
Based on your appearance, it is clear there

930
00:59:22,025 --> 00:59:24,694
are others who take exception.

931
00:59:27,830 --> 00:59:29,499
Were those not your words, sir?

932
00:59:29,632 --> 00:59:31,568
That was a private conversation.

933
00:59:31,701 --> 00:59:35,705
When you were reciting Mr. Ismay's private telegrams?

934
00:59:36,306 --> 00:59:38,841
[dramatic music]

935
00:59:43,346 --> 00:59:44,681
[exhales loudly]

936
00:59:44,814 --> 00:59:46,382
Listen carefully.

937
00:59:56,192 --> 00:59:58,795
Everything that I did was perfectly legal. I stand--

938
00:59:58,928 --> 01:00:00,797
Good evening, Senator Smith.

939
01:00:06,069 --> 01:00:07,370
Do you mind if I sit?

940
01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:13,509
Allow me to introduce myself.

941
01:00:13,643 --> 01:00:17,180
I'm Lucille, the Countess of Rothes.

942
01:00:18,047 --> 01:00:19,649
Good evening, Countess.

943
01:00:20,617 --> 01:00:23,386
It's a pleasure to see you again, Miss Malloy.

944
01:00:24,954 --> 01:00:27,890
And who is this rather battered young woman?

945
01:00:28,825 --> 01:00:30,927
I'm Alaine Ricard, journalist.

946
01:00:31,060 --> 01:00:32,595
Nice to meet you, ma'am.

947
01:00:33,296 --> 01:00:35,198
THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES: It's nice to meet you, Miss Ricard.

948
01:00:35,331 --> 01:00:38,201
Senator Smith, I understand you received

949
01:00:38,334 --> 01:00:41,004
a visit from the Duchess of Delitta.

950
01:00:41,738 --> 01:00:44,540
What an awful woman.

951
01:00:45,375 --> 01:00:47,377
We had trouble enough without her ideas

952
01:00:47,510 --> 01:00:49,612
as to the value of immigrants.

953
01:00:49,779 --> 01:00:50,680
Indeed.

954
01:00:52,115 --> 01:00:56,919
From what I hear, the emigres aren't the only ones being given a hard time.

955
01:00:57,787 --> 01:01:00,256
Madame, we're just searching for the truth.

956
01:01:02,091 --> 01:01:04,560
If this had been an act of God,

957
01:01:05,662 --> 01:01:08,197
then it would simply have been a great tragedy.

958
01:01:09,298 --> 01:01:11,901
But it was not an act of God.

959
01:01:12,535 --> 01:01:14,904
I do understand, Senator.

960
01:01:15,438 --> 01:01:20,810
But for those of us aboard the ship, there is only one truth.

961
01:01:21,577 --> 01:01:24,313
We had 10 minutes, sir...

962
01:01:26,015 --> 01:01:27,483
10 minutes.

963
01:01:30,453 --> 01:01:32,221
Women and children first.

964
01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:37,493
At this time, we require only women and children.

965
01:01:38,061 --> 01:01:40,263
CREW: Man your stations.

966
01:01:40,663 --> 01:01:41,764
Where will we go?

967
01:01:42,231 --> 01:01:44,233
Why are we being separated?

968
01:01:45,968 --> 01:01:47,804
[babies crying]

969
01:01:47,937 --> 01:01:49,839
[muffled voices]

970
01:01:50,406 --> 01:01:52,442
WOMAN: I won't leave without my family.

971
01:01:56,112 --> 01:01:58,314
[non-english speech]

972
01:02:02,085 --> 01:02:04,287
Ma'am, please remain calm.

973
01:02:04,654 --> 01:02:07,990
If you're to stay on the boat, you must behave in an orderly manner.

974
01:02:08,124 --> 01:02:09,459
[non-english speech]

975
01:02:09,726 --> 01:02:11,527
[non-english speech]

976
01:02:12,261 --> 01:02:14,564
This boat is for the women.

977
01:02:15,298 --> 01:02:17,834
The men have their own boat.

978
01:02:21,537 --> 01:02:23,840
To your lifeboat. We're boarding now.

979
01:02:24,006 --> 01:02:26,275
[soft orchestra music playing]

980
01:02:32,782 --> 01:02:34,050
CHILD: Mummy, why are we leaving?

981
01:02:34,183 --> 01:02:36,219
Why is father not coming with us?

982
01:02:43,993 --> 01:02:45,428
CREW: Remain calm.

983
01:02:51,567 --> 01:02:54,170
I'm not going to need this anymore, my dear.

984
01:02:56,105 --> 01:02:59,475
I've spent my whole life with that man.

985
01:03:00,243 --> 01:03:03,446
I am not going to change now.

986
01:03:05,915 --> 01:03:07,717
Mrs. Straus, please, remain seated.

987
01:03:07,850 --> 01:03:09,519
We'll be lowering shortly.

988
01:03:09,719 --> 01:03:13,890
[orchestra music continues]

989
01:03:17,059 --> 01:03:19,195
CREW: Lowering away.

990
01:03:23,699 --> 01:03:26,569
Where you go, I go.

991
01:03:34,977 --> 01:03:37,914
The older couple, do you know their names?

992
01:03:40,283 --> 01:03:45,354
Straus, Ida and Isidor Straus.

993
01:03:46,622 --> 01:03:50,359
I believe they have a department store here in New York.

994
01:03:51,260 --> 01:03:54,597
ALAINE RICARD: Macy's, 34th and Broadway.

995
01:03:58,668 --> 01:04:01,971
THE COUNTESS OF ROTHES: Those are only a few of the stories, Senator.

996
01:04:03,339 --> 01:04:07,310
It matters less as to who or what was at fault.

997
01:04:09,312 --> 01:04:11,447
The crew was valiant.

998
01:04:11,981 --> 01:04:13,316
Many more would have been lost if it

999
01:04:13,449 --> 01:04:15,918
weren't for their selflessness.

1000
01:04:17,119 --> 01:04:19,488
I do hope that is being considered.

1001
01:04:21,090 --> 01:04:22,391
[sharp inhale]

1002
01:04:22,525 --> 01:04:24,460
I would like to hear more of these stories.

1003
01:04:25,728 --> 01:04:27,763
I only know my own.

1004
01:04:28,831 --> 01:04:32,301
However, I imagine anyone who survived that night would

1005
01:04:32,435 --> 01:04:35,137
have quite a story to tell.

1006
01:04:39,475 --> 01:04:42,311
ALAINE RICARD: I know where they are.

1007
01:04:44,213 --> 01:04:45,481
I could take you.

1008
01:04:47,149 --> 01:04:50,186
[contemplative music]

1009
01:04:58,761 --> 01:05:02,064
[indistinct voices]

1010
01:05:02,732 --> 01:05:05,234
[babies crying]

1011
01:05:05,835 --> 01:05:08,004
I said this was not to happen.

1012
01:05:08,571 --> 01:05:11,540
They are here on their own free will.

1013
01:05:14,410 --> 01:05:16,612
This is where the aid remains,

1014
01:05:17,146 --> 01:05:19,849
immigrant women who lost their husbands,

1015
01:05:20,783 --> 01:05:25,054
in most cases, the sole breadwinner of the family.

1016
01:05:25,554 --> 01:05:28,057
[water splashing]

1017
01:05:36,198 --> 01:05:39,268
[grunting]

1018
01:05:47,076 --> 01:05:48,344
[shrieking]

1019
01:05:49,211 --> 01:05:52,581
Lilly! Lilly!

1020
01:06:11,667 --> 01:06:12,535
You've been here.

1021
01:06:12,935 --> 01:06:16,339
Aboard Carpathia, we had nothing but time.

1022
01:06:16,906 --> 01:06:21,010
As it turns out, I'm not entirely hopeless with needle and yarn.

1023
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:26,482
I didn't know what became of you.

1024
01:06:34,657 --> 01:06:36,559
[gasping for air]

1025
01:06:46,769 --> 01:06:48,337
[whimpering]

1026
01:06:51,841 --> 01:06:53,676
[straining]

1027
01:06:54,710 --> 01:06:58,114
[grunting]

1028
01:07:00,016 --> 01:07:01,517
[yelling and glass breaking]

1029
01:07:11,494 --> 01:07:13,329
[moaning]

1030
01:07:24,940 --> 01:07:27,376
[gasping]

1031
01:07:32,181 --> 01:07:34,717
[breathing heavily]

1032
01:07:47,763 --> 01:07:49,131
Anyway...

1033
01:07:50,366 --> 01:07:52,668
the other rescue ship should be here soon.

1034
01:07:55,638 --> 01:07:59,208
Her husband, she's waiting.

1035
01:08:10,719 --> 01:08:12,655
[baby crying]

1036
01:08:23,566 --> 01:08:25,568
We will return to Washington and inform

1037
01:08:25,701 --> 01:08:29,839
Mr. Bayliss that his services are no longer needed.

1038
01:08:30,840 --> 01:08:33,642
[music playing]

1039
01:08:41,383 --> 01:08:42,551
NANCY SMITH: Oh!

1040
01:08:42,685 --> 01:08:43,853
[laughing]

1041
01:08:43,986 --> 01:08:45,020
WILLIAM SMITH: Mm.

1042
01:08:45,154 --> 01:08:46,388
NANCY SMITH: Oh!

1043
01:08:47,323 --> 01:08:49,158
I've kept up with all of the papers.

1044
01:08:49,291 --> 01:08:50,659
It's going well?

1045
01:08:52,461 --> 01:08:54,296
Not as I'd hoped.

1046
01:08:54,930 --> 01:08:55,898
Come with me.

1047
01:09:04,306 --> 01:09:06,709
From an admiring public.

1048
01:09:18,020 --> 01:09:22,091
WOMAN: We were told not even God can sink that ship.

1049
01:09:22,525 --> 01:09:24,059
Quartermaster Fleet,

1050
01:09:24,727 --> 01:09:30,232
stationed in the crow's nest, was there anyone at a higher point aboard Titanic?

1051
01:09:31,300 --> 01:09:32,401
No, sir.

1052
01:09:33,135 --> 01:09:36,605
You were the lookout, the eyes of the ship?

1053
01:09:37,940 --> 01:09:39,441
Yes, sir.

1054
01:09:41,377 --> 01:09:43,546
And did you keep a sharp lookout?

1055
01:09:52,788 --> 01:09:55,958
Mr. Fleet, with your former employer the Oceanic,

1056
01:09:57,693 --> 01:09:59,128
you were supplied with binoculars

1057
01:09:59,261 --> 01:10:02,498
or field glasses, were you not?

1058
01:10:03,265 --> 01:10:04,466
Yes, sir.

1059
01:10:07,636 --> 01:10:10,706
And did you request such from Titanic?

1060
01:10:12,174 --> 01:10:13,776
FREDERICK FLEET: In Southampton...

1061
01:10:14,643 --> 01:10:17,446
they said there was none intended for us.

1062
01:10:24,220 --> 01:10:26,522
We could have seen it a bit sooner.

1063
01:10:29,024 --> 01:10:30,459
How much sooner?

1064
01:10:33,095 --> 01:10:36,799
Well, I have had experience with all manner of ships

1065
01:10:36,932 --> 01:10:43,005
afloat, sir, from the schooner to the square-rigged

1066
01:10:43,138 --> 01:10:49,411
sailing vessel to the steamship, all manner of ships afloat, sir.

1067
01:10:53,882 --> 01:10:55,618
WILLIAM SMITH: Major Peuchen, I fail

1068
01:10:55,751 --> 01:10:57,820
to see why you were so expansive when you talked to the press

1069
01:10:57,953 --> 01:11:01,824
and so reluctant when you appear before this committee.

1070
01:11:02,258 --> 01:11:07,863
Senator Smith, I have told you everything I can.

1071
01:11:08,897 --> 01:11:11,900
If you care, you can see my records. They're complete.

1072
01:11:12,601 --> 01:11:14,303
Captain Lord, what was the location of your ship,

1073
01:11:14,436 --> 01:11:16,705
the Californian, on the 14th of April last,

1074
01:11:16,839 --> 01:11:19,375
the date of the Titanic sinking?

1075
01:11:20,442 --> 01:11:21,777
At what time?

1076
01:11:22,111 --> 01:11:24,313
WILLIAM SMITH: At 6 o'clock in the morning of that day.

1077
01:11:26,949 --> 01:11:29,118
We have not got it down here, sir.

1078
01:11:30,019 --> 01:11:33,989
I can give it to you at 9:40 and at noon.

1079
01:11:34,123 --> 01:11:36,158
WILLIAM SMITH: Give it to me at 9:40.

1080
01:11:36,525 --> 01:11:38,027
42.47.

1081
01:11:38,827 --> 01:11:40,996
A little more specifically, please.

1082
01:11:42,564 --> 01:11:45,467
42 North and 47 West.

1083
01:11:46,669 --> 01:11:48,871
Are you reading from the log of the Californian?

1084
01:11:49,138 --> 01:11:50,973
STANLEY LORD: The ship's log, yes.

1085
01:11:51,573 --> 01:11:53,509
What other entries do you have in that log

1086
01:11:53,642 --> 01:11:55,944
as to your position on that date?

1087
01:12:00,282 --> 01:12:01,717
At 6:30.

1088
01:12:01,850 --> 01:12:03,585
6:30 PM?

1089
01:12:05,020 --> 01:12:05,921
Yes, sir.

1090
01:12:06,955 --> 01:12:10,392
We had 42 degrees 5 and 49.10,

1091
01:12:10,526 --> 01:12:13,429
as having passed two large icebergs.

1092
01:12:13,562 --> 01:12:15,831
WILLIAM SMITH: And what is the next entry?

1093
01:12:18,033 --> 01:12:20,602
There is no position given here, sir.

1094
01:12:21,170 --> 01:12:25,074
The next entry is 7:15 PM.

1095
01:12:25,474 --> 01:12:30,412
"Passed one large iceberg and two more in sight to the southward."

1096
01:12:30,779 --> 01:12:32,715
And where were you at that time?

1097
01:12:36,385 --> 01:12:38,220
There is no position given here, sir.

1098
01:12:38,687 --> 01:12:44,126
Captain Lord, did you attempt to communicate with the vessel Titanic that Sunday?

1099
01:12:44,927 --> 01:12:45,694
Yes, sir.

1100
01:12:46,028 --> 01:12:47,463
WILLIAM SMITH: At what time of day?

1101
01:12:47,596 --> 01:12:49,565
10 minutes to 11:00...

1102
01:12:49,832 --> 01:12:50,899
PM.

1103
01:12:52,801 --> 01:12:54,703
And what was that communication?

1104
01:12:54,937 --> 01:12:57,773
We told them we were stopped and surrounded by ice.

1105
01:12:57,906 --> 01:13:00,008
WILLIAM SMITH: And did the Titanic respond to that message?

1106
01:13:00,142 --> 01:13:01,543
Yes, sir.

1107
01:13:01,677 --> 01:13:04,913
I believe Titanic told our operator they had read it

1108
01:13:05,114 --> 01:13:09,385
and to "shut up" or "stand by" or something, that they were busy.

1109
01:13:09,518 --> 01:13:11,253
That was Titanic's reply.

1110
01:13:11,787 --> 01:13:13,689
[audience muttering]

1111
01:13:14,456 --> 01:13:17,860
First-class were paying them to send messages back home.

1112
01:13:18,227 --> 01:13:20,796
Instead of heeding an ice warning?

1113
01:13:27,636 --> 01:13:31,073
[metal grinding]

1114
01:13:36,011 --> 01:13:38,480
In the lifeboats, 4th Officer Boxhall

1115
01:13:38,614 --> 01:13:41,283
and Quartermaster Hitchins both said they

1116
01:13:41,417 --> 01:13:43,152
were rowing towards a light.

1117
01:13:43,819 --> 01:13:46,688
"On those living in the land of the shadow of death,

1118
01:13:46,822 --> 01:13:48,957
a light has dawned."

1119
01:13:49,591 --> 01:13:50,926
Matthew 4:16.

1120
01:13:51,059 --> 01:13:55,030
Sir, I've read articles where passengers

1121
01:13:55,164 --> 01:13:59,201
also spoke of a light, an actual light, off the horizon.

1122
01:13:59,334 --> 01:14:01,236
ALAINE RICARD: It was the Californian.

1123
01:14:03,972 --> 01:14:06,141
The ice warnings from Captain Stanley Lord

1124
01:14:06,275 --> 01:14:09,311
stated that they, too, were surrounded by ice,

1125
01:14:10,045 --> 01:14:12,714
those very same ice fields.

1126
01:14:15,884 --> 01:14:20,823
There was a light within 15 miles of those people.

1127
01:14:21,990 --> 01:14:25,027
I understand that's the type of story your readers would love to hear.

1128
01:14:25,160 --> 01:14:26,962
But the negligence aboard one ship

1129
01:14:27,095 --> 01:14:29,731
did not cause the sinking of another.

1130
01:14:33,469 --> 01:14:34,837
I brought you this.

1131
01:14:35,571 --> 01:14:38,173
[pensive music]

1132
01:14:53,455 --> 01:14:56,091
WILLIAM SMITH: Are you reading from the log of the Californian?

1133
01:14:58,193 --> 01:15:01,296
[muffled voices]

1134
01:15:14,309 --> 01:15:17,246
At the time you boarded what would be your lifeboat,

1135
01:15:18,113 --> 01:15:20,949
did you say anything to the Captain about entering it?

1136
01:15:21,884 --> 01:15:23,652
BRUCE ISMAY: I never saw the Captain.

1137
01:15:24,219 --> 01:15:28,023
WILLIAM SMITH: Then who, if anyone, told you to enter it?

1138
01:15:28,690 --> 01:15:30,225
No one.

1139
01:15:35,797 --> 01:15:36,999
Why did you?

1140
01:15:37,132 --> 01:15:38,800
BRUCE ISMAY: Because there was room.

1141
01:15:39,835 --> 01:15:44,206
She was being lowered away. I thought the ship was going down, and I got into the boat.

1142
01:15:59,488 --> 01:16:00,856
Sir Bruce...

1143
01:16:04,293 --> 01:16:07,829
I don't imagine history will be very kind to you.

1144
01:16:25,948 --> 01:16:28,250
(READING) "I, Harold Godfrey Lowe,

1145
01:16:28,383 --> 01:16:31,920
5th Officer of the late steamship, Titanic,

1146
01:16:32,554 --> 01:16:34,356
stated that I fired shots

1147
01:16:34,489 --> 01:16:40,062
to prevent Italian immigrants from jumping into my lifeboat.

1148
01:16:40,896 --> 01:16:43,865
I do thereby cancel the word "Italian"

1149
01:16:44,333 --> 01:16:47,402
and substitute the word immigrants

1150
01:16:47,536 --> 01:16:51,840
belonging to the Latin races."

1151
01:17:24,439 --> 01:17:27,976
Major Peuchen, I'm Alaine Ricard.

1152
01:17:28,810 --> 01:17:34,349
I'm curious, sir, as to why you had so little to say during your testimony.

1153
01:17:37,352 --> 01:17:39,821
Don't worry, sir. I'm with the press.

1154
01:17:41,423 --> 01:17:42,624
You said your name was?

1155
01:17:42,991 --> 01:17:45,227
Alaine Ricard, Chelsea Courier.

1156
01:17:45,861 --> 01:17:49,531
Ma'am, I think we all know the press

1157
01:17:49,665 --> 01:17:53,235
will well outlive this inquiry.

1158
01:17:54,836 --> 01:17:56,538
That's true, sir.

1159
01:17:57,539 --> 01:18:00,175
But you had quite a bit to say prior to your testimony

1160
01:18:00,308 --> 01:18:04,646
and then, well, sir, nothing.

1161
01:18:05,180 --> 01:18:10,952
Understand, it was simply formality.

1162
01:18:12,287 --> 01:18:15,824
It won't serve America to persecute its allies.

1163
01:18:17,459 --> 01:18:18,460
How do you mean?

1164
01:18:20,162 --> 01:18:21,797
ARTHUR PEUCHEN: Bankrupting the White Star

1165
01:18:21,930 --> 01:18:24,199
or the ship's builder, along with other fallout,

1166
01:18:24,332 --> 01:18:28,036
could cripple the economy of Great Britain.

1167
01:18:29,838 --> 01:18:30,906
Hmmm...

1168
01:18:31,173 --> 01:18:35,677
60,000 unemployed to start, plus...

1169
01:18:36,378 --> 01:18:39,548
JP Morgan has an agreement with the British military

1170
01:18:39,848 --> 01:18:43,051
that would be nullified if the bank were to seize his ships.

1171
01:18:43,452 --> 01:18:45,220
What agreement with the military?

1172
01:18:45,353 --> 01:18:46,388
War,

1173
01:18:48,690 --> 01:18:49,858
Miss Ricard,

1174
01:18:50,292 --> 01:18:51,359
war.

1175
01:18:57,132 --> 01:19:00,635
Let's just say, I don't believe America would

1176
01:19:00,769 --> 01:19:03,004
care to be stuck with the bill.

1177
01:19:07,943 --> 01:19:13,949
Or lose the political support of the richest man in the world.

1178
01:19:17,652 --> 01:19:21,156
WILLIAM SMITH: Mr. President, how are you, sir?

1179
01:19:22,090 --> 01:19:24,893
WILLIAM TAFT (ON PHONE): Oh, I can't complain.

1180
01:19:25,494 --> 01:19:29,131
But it seems Mr. Roosevelt is enjoying a bit of a surge.

1181
01:19:29,264 --> 01:19:32,100
Massachusetts and New York are still in your favor.

1182
01:19:32,434 --> 01:19:33,802
So far.

1183
01:19:33,935 --> 01:19:37,439
I understand you're continuing with your hearings.

1184
01:19:38,740 --> 01:19:39,841
I am, sir.

1185
01:19:39,975 --> 01:19:43,211
I think that's enough, Smith.

1186
01:19:43,345 --> 01:19:45,914
We have to move on from this Titanic circus.

1187
01:19:46,047 --> 01:19:50,285
You found all the truth you're going to find, and now you're doing more harm than good.

1188
01:19:51,086 --> 01:19:52,554
There's no one to blame.

1189
01:19:54,122 --> 01:19:56,091
The dead are not complaining.

1190
01:19:56,658 --> 01:19:58,360
That's a bit insensitive.

1191
01:19:58,593 --> 01:20:00,529
Don't you dare, Senator.

1192
01:20:00,662 --> 01:20:02,898
I had a close associate on that ship

1193
01:20:03,031 --> 01:20:04,866
whose body was never recovered.

1194
01:20:05,000 --> 01:20:08,003
The President's military strategist sightseeing in Europe.

1195
01:20:08,136 --> 01:20:10,238
Mr. Senator,

1196
01:20:10,372 --> 01:20:14,176
your words before the Senate will determine all the days that follow.

1197
01:20:14,743 --> 01:20:18,980
I recommend you choose very carefully.

1198
01:20:19,514 --> 01:20:20,549
[hangs up phone]

1199
01:20:29,257 --> 01:20:33,461
Ah, I was just trying to swim.

1200
01:20:33,995 --> 01:20:36,832
Um, there was a man.

1201
01:20:37,399 --> 01:20:39,668
There was a lot of them floating around.

1202
01:20:40,235 --> 01:20:44,272
Uh, he got me by the neck like that, and...

1203
01:20:44,806 --> 01:20:49,611
eh, pressed me under, eh,

1204
01:20:50,178 --> 01:20:52,113
trying to get on top of me.

1205
01:20:54,282 --> 01:20:56,117
I said to him, "Let go."

1206
01:20:56,418 --> 01:21:01,423
Of course, he was not paying any attention to that.

1207
01:21:01,723 --> 01:21:04,492
But I got away from him.

1208
01:21:05,060 --> 01:21:07,696
[water splashing]

1209
01:21:07,963 --> 01:21:10,232
God bless you. Oh, thank God!

1210
01:21:10,599 --> 01:21:11,533
Bless you!

1211
01:21:12,734 --> 01:21:13,768
Give me your hand.

1212
01:21:13,902 --> 01:21:15,036
Hello!

1213
01:21:17,305 --> 01:21:19,708
Someone, please, please, give me your hand.

1214
01:21:19,841 --> 01:21:21,343
I cannot swim.

1215
01:21:21,476 --> 01:21:23,044
-I can't. -I'm going to die if you do not take my hand!

1216
01:21:23,178 --> 01:21:24,012
MAN: Listen to me!

1217
01:21:24,145 --> 01:21:25,113
Please, I cannot live!

1218
01:21:25,247 --> 01:21:26,114
Please let me have your hand.

1219
01:21:26,248 --> 01:21:27,382
Listen to me!

1220
01:21:27,515 --> 01:21:29,484
-Listen to me! -I need your help.

1221
01:21:29,618 --> 01:21:31,953
If you pull on this boat, it will capsize,

1222
01:21:32,087 --> 01:21:33,255
and we will all die.

1223
01:21:33,388 --> 01:21:34,522
Calm down. Do you understand?

1224
01:21:34,656 --> 01:21:35,924
-Yes, yes! -Listen to my voice.

1225
01:21:36,057 --> 01:21:37,959
I need you-- look at me--

1226
01:21:38,159 --> 01:21:39,327
to stay calm.

1227
01:21:39,461 --> 01:21:40,962
-Do you understand? -I understand.

1228
01:21:41,096 --> 01:21:43,098
-We are overloaded. -All right, all right.

1229
01:21:43,231 --> 01:21:44,699
But, please, I cannot live long.

1230
01:21:44,833 --> 01:21:46,334
I will not live long.

1231
01:21:48,503 --> 01:21:51,539
Some of them were trying to get on their feet,

1232
01:21:51,673 --> 01:21:57,212
and some fall into the water again.

1233
01:21:57,712 --> 01:22:02,117
And some were frozen.

1234
01:22:05,787 --> 01:22:11,359
Two were dead and had to be sent overboard.

1235
01:22:18,633 --> 01:22:21,269
[water splashes]

1236
01:22:24,940 --> 01:22:28,877
Sir, sir, please, sir.

1237
01:22:29,377 --> 01:22:31,012
Give me your hand.

1238
01:22:35,183 --> 01:22:38,053
[fire crackling]

1239
01:22:43,058 --> 01:22:45,093
WILLIAM SMITH: (READING) "Mr. President, my associates and I

1240
01:22:45,226 --> 01:22:49,064
return the Commission handed to us on the 18th day of April last,

1241
01:22:49,564 --> 01:22:53,335
directing an immediate inquiry into the causes leading to the destruction

1242
01:22:53,468 --> 01:22:55,603
of the steamship Titanic."

1243
01:23:00,542 --> 01:23:03,378
I know what I have to say, but I hesitate to say it.

1244
01:23:07,949 --> 01:23:12,554
I never much liked the idea of living in the White House. [laughs softly]

1245
01:23:15,457 --> 01:23:17,392
Just tell the truth.

1246
01:23:18,426 --> 01:23:20,228
People don't want the truth.

1247
01:23:21,696 --> 01:23:25,200
They want someone to blame, preferably someone alive.

1248
01:23:27,969 --> 01:23:32,007
All I have on Ismay is that he wasn't gentleman enough to go down with the ship.

1249
01:23:32,841 --> 01:23:37,379
Unfortunately, being a coward is not a crime.

1250
01:23:39,781 --> 01:23:43,084
[pensive music]

1251
01:24:15,583 --> 01:24:18,119
[sighs]

1252
01:24:28,363 --> 01:24:31,499
[soft music]

1253
01:24:34,135 --> 01:24:36,771
[pencil scratches paper]

1254
01:24:43,711 --> 01:24:45,413
[loud exhale]

1255
01:24:52,220 --> 01:24:53,421
William.

1256
01:24:57,926 --> 01:25:02,797
The upper class were loaded into those lifeboats so carefully.

1257
01:25:03,031 --> 01:25:04,365
"Watch your step, ma'am.

1258
01:25:04,499 --> 01:25:06,568
Are you warm enough? Comfortable?"

1259
01:25:08,002 --> 01:25:10,438
The less privileged watched from the rail,

1260
01:25:10,572 --> 01:25:14,476
patiently waiting their turn, terrified, I'm sure.

1261
01:25:16,244 --> 01:25:19,514
until they were told that there would be no more boats.

1262
01:25:22,450 --> 01:25:25,854
Imagine having to explain that to your child.

1263
01:25:28,156 --> 01:25:31,793
"You will die because we couldn't provide a better ticket."

1264
01:25:33,695 --> 01:25:35,530
There was never a general alarm sounded.

1265
01:25:35,663 --> 01:25:39,501
We know that there weren't enough lifeboats.

1266
01:25:41,035 --> 01:25:42,337
And even those there were,

1267
01:25:42,770 --> 01:25:45,406
some of them were sent away half-empty.

1268
01:25:46,975 --> 01:25:49,244
The lookout man wasn't provided with the proper equipment.

1269
01:25:49,377 --> 01:25:54,315
The ship was moving too fast. Luxury took precedence over safety in every instance.

1270
01:25:54,449 --> 01:25:56,551
Even the radio operators were too busy

1271
01:25:56,684 --> 01:25:59,487
sending messages for their rich, well-tipping customers

1272
01:25:59,621 --> 01:26:02,190
to receive the incoming warnings.

1273
01:26:03,725 --> 01:26:06,594
And when all was said and done, a nearby vessel

1274
01:26:06,728 --> 01:26:08,930
slept through the screams.

1275
01:26:13,501 --> 01:26:19,474
There was one man who received those warnings, Titanic Captain Edward John Smith.

1276
01:26:22,577 --> 01:26:27,282
As he rubbed shoulders with the rich and famous, ships all around him were stopped,

1277
01:26:27,916 --> 01:26:29,484
surrounded by ice,

1278
01:26:31,252 --> 01:26:33,054
And he didn't even slow down.

1279
01:26:34,322 --> 01:26:39,561
The White Star's society captain had been told that his ship was unsinkable

1280
01:26:40,395 --> 01:26:42,397
and he believed it.

1281
01:26:46,334 --> 01:26:50,805
And, of course, our archaic laws will do nothing more than protect the corporate interests

1282
01:26:51,139 --> 01:26:54,509
at the expense of those left in the water.

1283
01:26:57,445 --> 01:26:59,347
Is that what you'll tell the Senate?

1284
01:27:07,889 --> 01:27:10,992
[pensive music]

1285
01:27:13,161 --> 01:27:16,464
[camera flash pops]

1286
01:27:48,396 --> 01:27:51,699
[car engine idling]

1287
01:27:53,968 --> 01:27:56,471
[soft chattering]

1288
01:28:08,449 --> 01:28:10,118
[whispering] Very comfortable.

1289
01:28:10,318 --> 01:28:11,352
[whispering] It's a good thing.

1290
01:28:11,686 --> 01:28:13,588
I heard this is over an hour long.

1291
01:28:16,024 --> 01:28:16,958
Sorry.

1292
01:28:18,993 --> 01:28:20,461
[chuckles]

1293
01:28:22,497 --> 01:28:24,432
NEWS ANNOUNCER (ON FILM): Wilbur Wright of the famed Wright Brothers passed away

1294
01:28:24,565 --> 01:28:26,701
this week at the age of 45.

1295
01:28:27,035 --> 01:28:29,904
After tinkering with printing presses, bicycles, motors,

1296
01:28:30,038 --> 01:28:32,040
and other machinery, he and his brother Orville

1297
01:28:32,173 --> 01:28:35,009
successfully developed their patented flying machine,

1298
01:28:35,143 --> 01:28:37,011
the first controlled, sustained flight

1299
01:28:37,145 --> 01:28:39,113
of a powered heavier-than-air aircraft

1300
01:28:39,247 --> 01:28:41,849
on a dry windswept afternoon, four miles south

1301
01:28:41,983 --> 01:28:43,718
of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.

1302
01:28:43,851 --> 01:28:46,087
Wilbur will be laid to rest near his childhood home

1303
01:28:46,220 --> 01:28:47,989
in Montgomery County, Ohio.

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01:28:48,656 --> 01:28:50,158
The inquiry into the sinking of Titanic

1305
01:28:50,291 --> 01:28:52,660
ended last week, with lawmakers scrambling to overhaul

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01:28:52,794 --> 01:28:54,295
international maritime law.

1307
01:28:54,562 --> 01:28:56,931
"An attendant loss of life so shocking to the civilized

1308
01:28:57,065 --> 01:28:59,667
world," says Senator William Alden Smith, the chairman

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01:28:59,801 --> 01:29:01,235
of the investigation.

1310
01:29:02,003 --> 01:29:04,005
"The goal is that humanity may never

1311
01:29:04,138 --> 01:29:06,708
again have to experience a senseless tragedy of this level."

1312
01:29:06,941 --> 01:29:08,943
"Whether it be current or future areas of travel

1313
01:29:09,077 --> 01:29:11,746
by sea, rail, or perhaps even the skies,

1314
01:29:12,280 --> 01:29:14,415
the United States government has done its duty,"

1315
01:29:14,549 --> 01:29:16,384
writes famed journalist Alaine Ricard,

1316
01:29:16,517 --> 01:29:18,353
"and now lies in the hands of the free press."

1317
01:29:18,486 --> 01:29:21,689
She goes on to say, "The truth, no matter how difficult,

1318
01:29:21,823 --> 01:29:23,291
is how we move forward."

1319
01:29:23,658 --> 01:29:25,259
Through the work of Senator Smith

1320
01:29:25,393 --> 01:29:27,562
and the brave rescuers and survivors of the Titanic,

1321
01:29:27,695 --> 01:29:30,965
the event will now live on forever in the public consciousness.

1322
01:29:35,403 --> 01:29:38,172
Only a year and a half from the creation of the Boy Scouts of America--

1323
01:29:38,306 --> 01:29:39,807
I'm going to take a minute.

1324
01:29:40,141 --> 01:29:42,210
I'll be back.

1325
01:29:42,343 --> 01:29:43,244
NEWS ANNOUNCER (ON FILM): ...have announced the formation of the Girls Guide group.

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01:29:44,078 --> 01:29:46,013
Young girls from around the country--

1327
01:29:46,180 --> 01:29:49,083
[soft music]

1328
01:30:01,629 --> 01:30:05,133
I hope you don't mind. Miss Malloy told me where you might be.

1329
01:30:05,800 --> 01:30:09,003
"Famed journalist Alaine Ricard."

1330
01:30:10,204 --> 01:30:11,839
At your service, sir.

1331
01:30:14,475 --> 01:30:15,943
So what's next?

1332
01:30:16,978 --> 01:30:18,045
To Europe.

1333
01:30:19,013 --> 01:30:21,482
I believe that's where the story lies.

1334
01:30:23,117 --> 01:30:24,619
Not sure the British Board of Trade

1335
01:30:24,752 --> 01:30:28,055
is going to do much to indict themselves.

1336
01:30:30,358 --> 01:30:31,859
You can count on that.

1337
01:30:36,731 --> 01:30:38,733
War is on our doorstep.

1338
01:30:39,634 --> 01:30:41,736
We uncovered that most of all.

1339
01:30:45,473 --> 01:30:46,974
They'll need you.

1340
01:30:54,415 --> 01:30:56,050
Thank you, Senator.

1341
01:31:02,256 --> 01:31:05,159
I should, um, get back.

1342
01:31:15,369 --> 01:31:17,305
WILLIAM SMITH (VOICEOVER): As the ship was sinking,

1343
01:31:17,972 --> 01:31:20,575
strains of music wafted across her deck.

1344
01:31:20,708 --> 01:31:24,512
["Nearer My God to Thee" playing]

1345
01:31:27,982 --> 01:31:30,084
It was not the note of any martial anthem that had,

1346
01:31:30,218 --> 01:31:34,789
in days gone by, led embattled legions on to victory.

1347
01:31:36,157 --> 01:31:39,594
It was a more inspiring stanza than that,

1348
01:31:40,795 --> 01:31:43,998
a loftier and holier melody,

1349
01:31:44,131 --> 01:31:46,434
amid the anguish and sublime pathos

1350
01:31:46,567 --> 01:31:51,172
of that awful hour that swept through the compartments of the sinking ship.

1351
01:31:51,606 --> 01:31:54,876
It was a rallying cry for the living and the dying,

1352
01:31:55,776 --> 01:32:00,882
to rally them not for life but for their awaiting death.

1353
01:32:03,084 --> 01:32:05,219
While almost face to face with their Creator,

1354
01:32:05,353 --> 01:32:10,057
amid the chaos of that supreme and solemn moment,

1355
01:32:11,459 --> 01:32:15,963
with inspiring notes, the unison resounded through the ship.

1356
01:32:16,097 --> 01:32:18,065
It told the victims of the wreck that there

1357
01:32:18,199 --> 01:32:20,768
was another world beyond the seas,

1358
01:32:21,435 --> 01:32:23,337
free from the agony of pain.

1359
01:32:27,675 --> 01:32:32,346
And though with somber tones, it cheered them on to their untimely fate.

1360
01:32:33,147 --> 01:32:35,683
As the oceans closed over the heroic dead,

1361
01:32:35,816 --> 01:32:38,920
let us feel that the heavens opened

1362
01:32:39,854 --> 01:32:40,788
for the lives

1363
01:32:40,922 --> 01:32:42,790
that were prepared to enter.

1364
01:32:44,058 --> 01:32:48,029
Father of the universe, what an admonition to the nation.

1365
01:32:49,163 --> 01:32:52,199
The sounds of that awe-inspiring requiem

1366
01:32:52,333 --> 01:32:55,736
that vibrated over the ocean are drowned

1367
01:32:55,870 --> 01:32:59,640
in the waters of the deep. The instruments that gave them birth are silenced.

1368
01:32:59,774 --> 01:33:01,709
WOMAN: Why are you leaving us?

1369
01:33:02,243 --> 01:33:05,146
WILLIAM SMITH (VOICEOVER): As the harps were silenced on the willow tree,

1370
01:33:05,713 --> 01:33:09,850
if the melody that was rehearsed could only reverberate through this land,

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01:33:10,284 --> 01:33:12,286
"Nearer My God to Thee,"

1372
01:33:12,420 --> 01:33:14,355
[panicked crowd]

1373
01:33:15,122 --> 01:33:18,492
and its echoes heard in these halls of legislation

1374
01:33:19,226 --> 01:33:22,663
and at every home and fireside, from the mansions of the rich...

1375
01:33:22,797 --> 01:33:25,366
[panicked cries]

1376
01:33:25,499 --> 01:33:26,934
[grunting]

1377
01:33:27,068 --> 01:33:29,403
to the huts and hovels of the poor.

1378
01:33:34,308 --> 01:33:37,545
If we could be made to feel that there is a divine law

1379
01:33:38,179 --> 01:33:40,214
of obedience and of adjustment,

1380
01:33:40,348 --> 01:33:43,584
end of compensation, that demands our allegiance

1381
01:33:43,718 --> 01:33:46,220
far above the laws that we formulate in this presence.

1382
01:33:46,354 --> 01:33:48,856
[loud metal crashing]

1383
01:33:49,523 --> 01:33:53,461
Then from the gloom of these fearful hours, we shall pass...

1384
01:33:54,061 --> 01:33:55,896
into the dawn of a higher service

1385
01:33:56,030 --> 01:33:57,565
and of a better day.

1386
01:33:58,566 --> 01:34:02,470
And then, Mr. President, the lives that went down on this fated night

1387
01:34:03,204 --> 01:34:06,073
will not have gone down in vain.

1388
01:34:30,031 --> 01:34:34,702
[music playing]

1389
01:38:35,376 --> 01:38:38,445
["Nearer My God to Thee" plays]

1390
01:39:37,538 --> 01:39:39,440
[music ends]