Titanic Survivor Ruth Becker (Blanchard) - Interview

Ruth Becker (Blanchard), a second-class passenger on the Titanic, tells of how she escaped the sinking Titanic along with her mother and younger brother and sister, the scene on the rescue ship, Carpathia, and their reception upon arrival in New York.

This video is pieced together from clips of the same interview source used in the documentaries, Titanic: Death of a Dream and Titanic: The Legend Lives On (1994, A&E Networks), and Titanic: The Survivors Story (1997, Channel 7 Australia). The original date of the interview is unknown.

Read the full annotated transcript of this interview: https://titanicarchive.org/collection...

Film Sources:
A Night to Remember (1958), dir. Roy Ward Baker / The Rank Organisation
S.O.S. Titanic (1979), dir. William Hale / EMI Films
Titanic (1996), dir. Robert Lieberman / Konigsberg / Sanitsky Company
Titanic (1997), dir. James Cameron / Paramount
Titanic (2012), dir. Jon Jones / ITV

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