Uploaded May 2015 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Forty year ago “Jaws” became Hollywood’s first “summer blockbuster” and director Steven Spielberg’s first hit movie. “Jaws” made a lot of people afraid to go into the water and started a national obsession with everything connected to sharks



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