Titanic: A survivors tale part 1

[7jayma]

@mikejackson4ever u think a few did but it would be difficult to relive that because the titanic was NOT a love story and during the sinking I don't think any surviors could watch that again. Of course I absolutly loved the movie what can I say I'm a titaniac

[ilaasstfubabn]

why would someone want to re-live that experiance

[hyacinth423]

She's one my favorite titanic survivors, so brave and outspoken!!

[51m0n77]

useless old fart. id rather read about her tale instead of listening to her drivel.....

[andrew8833]

Canada has a wonderfully good education system, probably much to do with you having to pay for it though, no state funded system there.

[irishknightt]

she seemed to really love her father.

[DJTrickiMusic]

Tell me the interviewer is not Russell Brand?!

[ap1Orian1ap]

@DJTrickiMusic

Russell Brand?

More like Nick Frost :D

[TheEpicTechnology]

this man is a teacher from my school

[TheEpicTechnology]

this man is a teacher from my schhool

[68BarbP]

for her age she is very sharp.

[smo555]

@68BarbP if you survived an event such as that, youd probably remember it well as well :P

[ickiepoo]

When these people passed away we lost an invaluable connection to the past. I mourned Gertrud Asplund and Millvina Dean as if they were relatives.

[12jordyboy07]

I found out today I'm related to Eva Hart. She is my Grandmothers cousin. God rest her soul and also all who died aboard the titanic.

[HELLSTORM27]

@12jordyboy07 eva hart is my great aunty, met her years ago here in australia when she flew out for inteview on midday tv...she was a lovely lady who had incredible memories of the titanic..sadly missed

[12jordyboy07]

@HELLSTORM27 really? so we are kind of related a bit lol :)

[HELLSTORM27]

@12jordyboy07 i guess we are mate lol ive still alot of relos in uk..

[Mike1614b]

information like this is invaluable.

[halyie]

thanxs for puting this up is there a part 2?

[Titan752]

I had three opportunities to chat with Eva Hart during the Titanic Historical Society's conventions in Philadelphia,Pa. (1982), again in Wilmington, Delaware five years later, and a last time in Boston, Massachusetts, I believe, in 1993... she always told this same recollection with emotion! It was her story and the tales told by survivors, Ruth Becker Blanchard and Edwina Celia Troutt McKenzie that led to my affliction of 'Titanic fever'... it still is strong as ever!

[Chrliesangelsman]

@Titan752L You are so blessed to have been able to meet them and speak w/ them. What an awesome thing to be able to look back upon.

[Chrliesangelsman]

@Titan752: Ps: Did you ever get a chance to meet Edith Brown Haisman?

[NeilFraudstrong]

Also, my god. How awful must it have been to continually discuss your father's death and the death of thousands of other people. But thank GOD she did. This is history. This needed to be told, even though it must have been painful.

I've always thought that surviving the ordeal would be bad enough, but then to hear the screams. But that's not even the worst part. The worst part is how, minute by minute, the screams got softer and softer and softer until they finally stopped. How terrible.

[NeilFraudstrong]

Also, I think Eva later received her father's own pocketwatch. I know that Edith Brown Haisman received her father's watch, but please correct me if I am wrong. The watch was stopped at 2:31.

[NeilFraudstrong]

Eva always gave such deep (no pun intended) interviews. When I got into the whole Titanic thing (I am not a fanatic, a casual student of its history, Eva was always the survivor that stuck out to me due to her frankness, honesty, and complete openness.

[Resimaster]

She is so informtive and enthusiastic. RIP Eva.

[yolannasaysso]

my fave too, her voice makes me want some earl grey tea

[uiscegorm]

This is such a short but wonderful interview with Eva Hart.

Thanks for sharing :-)

[123ishmael123]

Too bad they were only children when it happend and could not remember much :/ But I'm glad they survived.

[OCBspain]

Fantastic . Thank you for posting this video

[mikejackson4ever]

I wonder if any of the survivors got to see the James Cameron movie?

[fishdified]

I wonder if they wanted to.

[Kiyoko504]

@fishdified I wonder why they would 

[Chrliesangelsman]

@mikejackson4ever: I think that the last survivor Milvina Dean had already passed away at the time that the movie came out. I could be mistaken on that, but I am pretty sure she had passed by then. She was the last survivor to pass away.

[wimbletone]

@Chrliesangelsman the last survivor is indeed milvina dean! she was 2 months old when she boarded the titanic so she barely had any memories. however, she passed away may 31, 2009 which was last year, the same day titanic first boarded on may 31 1911. strange she died on the same died.

[Chrliesangelsman]

@wimbletone: Thanks for the info wimbletone. Now looking back, it seems like that would be right..... SO THAT LEAVES ME WONDERING if she saw the movie "Titanic." I wonder if she ever commented about that. I guess I may have to google that subject one day. No doubt it would be difficult for her to see, even though at 2 mths old, it seems like there could be no way, she could remember. In fact, I wonder if it is even POSSIBLE for her to have remembered anything at only 2 mths old?

[wimbletone]

@Chrliesangelsman she got her story from her mother who was with her during the tragedy, mate.

[Chrliesangelsman]

@wimbletone: Makes sense...... Thanks again wimbletone..... :-)

[Amispro]

@mikejackson4ever my friends relative was in titanic and she have see other titanic movie and she cried and said "if they was there filming movie and taking pictures, why they dont help us?

[TheaterRaven]

@mikejackson4ever I know that a few did, but others were very opposed to seeing it and didn't want to. They didn't want to see something that was making money off the tragic, horrible deaths of their loved ones. Those who DID see it, however, thought it was very well done, for lack of a better term, but a few who saw it had to leave during the part that showed the sinking--they couldn't bear to watch it.

[zurichstudios]

@TheaterRaven oh can you imagine how heartbreaking. Being there and helpless to do anything, like running

[brittyk22]

@TheaterRaven really? thats crazy. i did not know that!

[miketennis19ny]

@mikejackson4ever from what I understand only two survivors are known to have watched the movie: Michael Navratil and Eleanor Schuman. Both were very moved by it. Ms. Hart never got to watch it as she died just as the movie was beginning production in 1996, and many of the other survivors, such as Millvina Dean, opted not to watch the film, as many had lost family members in the sinking and did not want to relive the disaster.

[loyalqueen]

@mikejackson4ever they didn't want to, so they never did.

[andrewthomas1912]

She is my favorite Titanic Survivor!

[audgeyp]

Mine, too. Of all of them she's the one that sticks with me the most. Wish she were still here so I could ask her things about her experiences on the Titanic.

[abranic]

Very nice!