Video: 'When 5 million people held hands for 15 minutes | Hands Across America (1986)'

(Sunday, May 25, 1986, 3:00 p.m. EDT) — Approximately 6.5 million people held hands in a human chain for fifteen minutes along a path across the continental United States today, participating in Hands Across America to raise money for the nation’s hungry and homeless.

Video: 'HANDS ACROSS AMERICA - ABCNEWS - Sam Donaldson - May 25, 1986'