The Lede (of the PBS WWII show)

I thought that lede of this story was the director didn't want historians or experts to be telling the story or getting information from them, with the story being told from the bottom up. The people that where wanted were people that lived during that time, where in the war, or anything along the lines of that. Those people would tell what the war was meant to them from a small town perspective, with the film being a "vast archive...from everywhere."