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43 Episodes 1954 - 1955
Episode 1
Sun, Aug 29, 195430 mins
Aaron Burr, former Vice President of the United States, is accused of trying to set himself up as an Emperor of the Spanish colony of Mexico.
Episode 2
Sun, Sep 5, 1954
Walter Cronkite and the CBS newsmen trace the evolution of the American jazz form as it found a home in the dance palaces of California and the bistros of Paris after the Storyville section of New Orleans was closed.
Episode 3
Sun, Sep 12, 1954
At the stroke of noon on April 22, 1889, 20,000 land-hungry citizens began the wild race for the choicest claims in this former Indian territory. The position of the Indians is expressed by the chief of the Cherokee Tribe.
Episode 4
Sun, Sep 19, 1954
Episode 5
Sun, Sep 26, 195430 mins
The newsmen cover the triumphant return of Ulysses in 1164 B.C. His wife Penelope and the people of Ithaca had waited 20 years for his arrival. Now Penelope is about to choose a new husband from among her suitors.
Episode 6
Sun, Oct 3, 1954
In California in 1848, John Augustus Sutter discovers that there is gold on his land. He dreams of creating an 18th century paradise on his property, but he neglects the coming age of industrialization.
Episode 7
Sun, Oct 10, 1954
Episode 8
Sun, Oct 17, 1954
The date is October 21, 1879. Walter Cronkite and the news staff report from Menlo Park, where Thomas Edison has made a small spark dance upon a carbon filament inside a vacuum tube and brought forth the miracle of the electric light.
Episode 9
Sun, Oct 24, 195430 mins
We witness the blaze and circumstances surrounding it through the eyes of CBS newsmen. As Nero plays the lute for his admirers on a hill outside of Rome, he is not quite so indifferent to it as legend would have it.
Episode 10
Sun, Oct 31, 195430 mins
May 16, 1861. The convention in Chicago of the new party which nominated Abraham Lincoln for the presidency is happening. Newsmen interview Mrs. Lincoln and her family, William H. Seward, and Lincoln himself.
Episode 11
Sun, Nov 7, 1954
Episode 12
Sun, Nov 14, 195430 mins
October 21, 1805. Lord Horatio Nelson, in command of the English fleet with his own ship, "The Victory," leading the line, met and destroyed the combined French and Spanish fleets of Cape Trafalgar, but Nelson was killed in the action.
Episode 13
Sun, Nov 21, 195430 mins
On February 15, 1883, in a crowded courtroom in Fort Smith, Arkansas, Isaac Parker, known as "The Hanging Judge," presides over the trial of Belle Starr, who is the first woman to ever be tried for horse stealing.
Episode 14
Sun, Nov 28, 1954
Political adversaries plot to use the custody trial of two Israeli women, Deborah from the north and Judith from the south, who both claim to be the mother of a newborn infant, to tear Solomon's Israel apart.
Episode 15
Sun, Dec 5, 1954
Episode 16
Sun, Dec 12, 1954
The wives of President Andrew Jackson's Cabinet, led by the wife of Vice President John Calhoun, refuse to accept Peggy Eaton, the wife of Jackson's Secretary of War, Henry Eaton.
Episode 17
Sun, Dec 19, 1954
December 17, 1814. The only hope Andrew Jackson has of defeating the overwhelming forces of the British lies in a possible alliance with the French pirate of New Orleans, Jean Lafitte.
Episode 18
Sun, Dec 26, 1954
After momentous debate, in a Joint Resolution of the House of Representatives and the Senate, the Bill of Rights is passed on September 25, 1789, and submitted to the states for ratification.
Episode 19
Sun, Jan 2, 195530 mins
Ludwig van Beethoven realizes that he will soon be completely deaf.
Episode 20
Sun, Jan 9, 195530 mins
On May 10, 1863_during the heat of battle General Stonewalling Jackson is fatally wounded by his own soldiers. Concern grows as his fellow officers work to keep up morale after the grievous loss.
Episode 21
Sun, Jan 16, 1955
The first successful flight of Wilbur and Orville Wright.
Episode 22
Sun, Jan 23, 1955
At Canadaigua NY. on Jun 18, 1873, Miss Anthony and a number of other suffragettes were tried for the crime of voting in an election.
Episode 23
Sun, Jan 30, 1955
When King Charles II ascends the throne of England, the famous poet John Milton flees into hiding, as his works are ordered to be destroyed.
Episode 24
Sun, Feb 6, 1955
After many arguments are put aside, on July 4, 1776, the delegates to the Continental Congress sign the Declaration of Independence.
Episode 25
Sun, Feb 13, 1955
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis clashes with tradition-bound medical authorities in his fight to prevent childbed fever.
Episode 26
Sun, Feb 20, 1955
After the battle for the liberation of Paris during World War II on August 19-20, 1944, the German garrison surrender the French capital.
Episode 27
Sun, Feb 27, 1955
December 4, 1783. Walter Cronkite and his newsmen move among the crowd at Fraunces Tavern in New York City, trying to gauge their reaction, where General George Washington is thanking his Army officers and bidding them farewell,
Episode 28
Sun, Mar 6, 1955
Three soldiers who have never seen action beyond boot camp hear the words of General Eisenhower's order of the day as they prepare to strike at Omaha Beach.
Episode 29
Sun, Mar 20, 1955
The two families start feuding when a Hatfield is killed in a brawl.
Episode 30
Sun, Mar 27, 1955
The many demands made by Alexander upon his people, coupled with the suspicions aroused by the release of some of his oldest warriors, causes a mutiny by the troops that had commanded for over 11 years. Walter Cronkite and his newsmen travel from Alexander's tent at Opis to the law courts of Athens, where the orator Demosthenes is on trial.
Episode 31
Sun, Apr 3, 195530 mins
The first transcontinental railroad is completed with the driving of a golden spike at Promontory Point, Utah.
Episode 32
Sun, Apr 10, 195530 mins
It is a few moments before the curtain is to rise. Barnum has ballyhooed his imported "Swedish Nightingale" from coast to coast. But he is nervous as he waits with Cronkite and his newsmen. He has never heard Jenny Lind sing a single note.
Episode 33
Sun, Apr 17, 1955
Walter Cronkite and his news staff stand by as President Lincoln tries to decide whether or not he should sign the bill that will free all slaves in the southern territories. The fate of the Union cause may rest upon Lincoln's decision.
Episode 34
Sun, Apr 24, 195530 mins
Walter Cronkite and his newsman are placed about the city to interview members of the anxious crowd awaiting Hitler's arrival at the Congress Hall.
Episode 35
Sun, May 1, 1955
A capacity crowd gathers at Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939, to pay tribute to baseball's "Iron Man", Lou Gehrig. Walter Cronkite and his news staff interview Grantland Rice, Gehrig's family, trainer "Doc" Painter and others who help relive the fabulous Lou's career. Lou himself is seen in film clips made during his baseball career. A highlight is Gehrig's farewell to the crowd gathered that day at Yankee Stadium.
Episode 36
Sun, May 8, 195530 mins
Cronkite and staff report the dramatic behind the scenes happenings as the 76-year-old actress, her body racked with pain, prepares to go before a huge audience to perform in the play Daniel written by her grandson-in-law.
Episode 37
Sun, May 15, 1955
At the start of the Spanish-American War of 1898, US Adm. George Dewey gathers his fleet for an assault on the Spanish-controlled port of Mahila Bay in the Philippines.
Episode 38
Sun, May 22, 1955
You are there as the RMS Titanic set sail on a five-day journey across the North Atlantic and sank after colliding with an iceberg.
Episode 39
Sun, May 29, 1955
Episode 40
Sun, Jun 5, 1955
April 1, 1943. Walter Cronkite and his newsmen stand by at the Army's Bushnell General Hospital in Brigham, Utah, as over 200 men, burned in battles in the South Pacific, are injected with penicillin. They also conduct an interview in London with Sir Alexander Fleming, winner of the Nobel Prize for his discovery of the penicillin mold.
Episode 41
Sun, Jun 12, 1955
Nine thousand fight fans gather in the New Orleans Olympic Club to witness the battle between John Sullivan, "The Boston Strong Boy" and "Gentleman Jim" Corbett. Sullivan is favored.
Episode 42
Sun, Jun 19, 195530 mins
Napoleon returns to France from his exile on the Isle of Elba and tries to regain the throne.
Episode 43
Sun, Jun 26, 1955
December 16, 1773. There's tea, tea everywhere, but not a drop to drink as angry Bostonians dump the loads of tea into the harbor to protest the British taxes. Walter Cronkite and his news staff interview participants and bystanders at historic sites around Boston.