Season 4
32 episodes · Sep 11, 1955
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- S4E1
The Triumph of Louis Braille (May 25, 1847)
Sep 11, 1955Louis Braille develops a system for the blind to read and write, bringing them out of the shadows of society.
- S4E6
The Secret Message That Plunged America Into World War I (March 1, 1917)
Oct 23, 1955A dramatization of America's entry into World War I.
- S4E9
The Hoax of Cardiff Giant (February 2, 1870)
Nov 13, 1955Reporters are stationed at the home of poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes; the Cardiff N.Y. farm of William Newell, where the alleged human fossil was discovered; and at the library of Cornell University's president, Andrew D. White. Holmes and a reporter named Bud Wilson sense that the Cardiff giant is not authentic.
- S4E15
Washington Crosses the Delaware (December 25, 1776)
Dec 25, 1955As snow and sleet threaten to freeze the Delaware River, General Washington attempts a crossing to surprise Hessian troops at Trenton, N.J.
- S4E17
The Heroism of Clara Barton
Jan 8, 1956At the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, later labeled as "the bloodiest day of the Civil War," we witness the heroism of Clara Barton, who defies the danger of battle to administer first aid to the men.
- S4E20
The Great Comstock Silver Strike (October 29, 1873)
Feb 26, 1956Walter Cronkite hosts a TV recreation of the Great Comstock Silver Strike using many well known western TV character actors.
- S4E31
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