KETC | Living St. Louis | Civilian Conservation Corps

From KETC, LIVING ST. LOUIS Producer Jim Kirchherr meets some of the remaining members of the Civilian Conservation Corps or CCC. In 1933, President Roosevelt created the CCC as a way to put unemployed men to work during the Depression. There were more than 3 million "CCC boys" that worked to create state parks, lodges, roads and plant trees throughout the U.S. Babler State Park was a CCC project and the site for the group's reunion in 1998. At age 87, Harry Dallas has been running the CCC Museum at Jefferson Barracks for more than 20 years, but a lack of funds is causing the museum to close its doors.

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[Cyallaire]

There's an effort to bring the CCC back to deal with the economic crisis brought on by the banksters. Canada had a similar program, and while both provided a means of survival, and made improvements that are still with us, one reason the camps were placed in remote areas was to ward off the threat of revolution that would stem from so many unemployed youth in urban settings. This was the primary reason governmental authorities instituted the CCC.