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Ken Burns | AP
The huge Black Sunday storm - the worst storm of the decade-long Dust Bowl in the southern Plains - as it approaches Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935. Daylight turned to total blackness in mid-afternoon.
Ken Burns’ new documentary “The Dust Bowl” opens ominously, with black-and-white footage of a massive dirt cloud sweeping the Great Plains. A mother runs outside, grabbing her child and shepherding him to safety. “Let me tell you how it was,” says Oklahoma native Don Wells, …
