Ken Burns Condemns Republican Plan to Defund PBS: ‘I Couldn’t Do Any of My Films Without Them’

With the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, Ken Burns is set to release a six-part series on the American Revolution this November. But it could be premiering on a PBS deprived of federal funding by Donald Trump and Republicans.

In an interview with “CBS Sunday Morning” set to air this weekend and taped at Thomas Jefferson’s home Monticello, Burns praised PBS as essential to both his filmmaking career and America as a whole after the GOP-controlled House of Representatives...