Season 4

1. The Triumph of Louis Braille (May 25, 1847)

1955-09-11

Louis Braille develops a system for the blind to read and write, bringing them out of the shadows of society.

2. The Last Day of an English Queen

1955-09-18

3. The Boston Massacre

1955-10-02

4. The Rescue of the American Prisoners from Santo Tomas

1955-10-09

5. Moscow Today

1955-10-16

6. The Secret Message That Plunged America Into World War I (March 1, 1917)

1955-10-23

A dramatization of America's entry into World War I.

7. Grant and Lee at Appomattox

1955-10-30

8. The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

1955-11-06

9. The Hoax of Cardiff Giant (February 2, 1870)

1955-11-13

Reporters 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.

10. Bannister Wins the Mile Run

1955-11-20

11. Eli Whitney Invents the Cotton Gin

1955-11-27

12. Spindletop: The First Great Texas Oil Strike

1955-12-04

13. The Chicago Fire

1955-12-11

14. Pierre and Marie Curie Discover Radium

1955-12-18

15. Washington Crosses the Delaware (December 25, 1776)

1955-12-25

As snow and sleet threaten to freeze the Delaware River, General Washington attempts a crossing to surprise Hessian troops at Trenton, N.J.

16. Benedict Arnold's Plot Against West Point

1956-01-01

17. The Heroism of Clara Barton

1956-01-08

At 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.

18. V-J Day

1956-01-15

19. Dr. Pinel Unchains the Insane

1956-02-12

20. The Great Comstock Silver Strike (October 29, 1873)

1956-02-26

Walter Cronkite hosts a TV recreation of the Great Comstock Silver Strike using many well known western TV character actors.

21. When Stanley Finds Livingstone

1956-03-11

22. Berlin Airlift

1956-03-25

23. The Lost Battalion of World War I

1956-04-01

24. The Recovery of the Mona Lisa

1956-04-08

25. WIlliam Jennings Bryan's Presidential Nomination

1956-04-15

26. The Return of Halley's Comet

1956-04-29

27. Benjamin Franklin's Kite Experiment

1956-05-13

28. The Doolittle Raiders Take Off for Tokyo

1956-05-20

29. The Vote That Defeated Andrew Jackson for President

1956-05-27

30. Cyprus Today

1956-06-01

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