Helen Keller - Documentary Feature

This clip - from Legends, Icons and Superstars of the 20th Century - features Helen Keller.  Compiling newsreel footage, scenes from Helen Keller:  In Her Story, Deliverance and other sources, the documentary introduces us to the real Helen Keller.  Move the cursor forward to see the following scenes:

5:13 - Helen wanted to learn how to speak, although she could not hear herself.  In this segment, Anne Sullivan explains how she taught Helen a way to achieve her goal - and -  Helen recreates the first words she ever spoke.

7:20 - Dwight Eisenhower (a five-star general and then sitting-president) tears-up when he meets Helen Keller.

Credits

Clip from Legends, Icons and Superstars of the 20th Century.