Byron Gross and Sam Weber: The Full Interview

Watch the full interview of Byron (born in 1914) and Sam (born in 1913) talking about President Roosevelt’s fireside chats, how the crisis affected them and their fellow St. Louisans, and the lessons they learned from the Great Depression.

Watch in Segments: Byron Gross and Sam Weber


The Great Depression Interview series, recorded in 2008, is made up of conversations with St. Louis-area residents who lived through the Great Depression. The interviews provide students with first-person accounts of life between 1929 and 1940. Teachers can get students talking about the videos with discussion questions (PDF) based on the interviews.

For additional Great Depression-related multimedia resources, from newsreels to oral histories, visit our audio and video collections.