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From the archives: Long trek to a cemetery

In the 1940s residents in Swain County, North Carolina were uprooted by the federal government, when their land was taken for a dam project. More than three decades later, they were allowed to make the arduous trek to the Bone Valley Cemetery, where their loved ones were buried. Correspondent Bruce Hall reports. Originally broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on August 26, 1978.
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