How Would ABC Fictionalize Other Historical Periods?

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How Would ABC Fictionalize Other Historical Periods?

From YouTube

A satire of ABC’s “The Path to 9/11” has popped up on YouTube. It envisions how ABC would dramatize Vietnam, the San Francisco Earthquake and the Revolutionary War. Not gut-bustingly hilarious, but significant in terms of how quickly these kinds of things appear nowadays.

Watch it: