Special Features
- Biography: Leo Joseph Ryan
- General Article: The Congregation of Peoples Temple
- Biography: Jim Jones
- General Article: The Peoples Temple in California
- General Article: Race and the Peoples Temple
- General Article: November 18, 1978
In 1978 over 900 people led by Rev. Jim Jones died in the largest mass murder-suicide in history, at Jonestown, Guyana. The story is told by survivors, Temple defectors, relatives, and journalists.
Sister Aimee
The life story of Aimee Semple McPherson, religious evangelist instrumental in bringing conservative Protestantism into mainstream culture.
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Grand Central
A marvel of engineering, architecture, and vision, the story of the Beaux Arts structure on 42nd street that forever changed midtown Manhattan.
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The Quiz Show Scandal
Television game shows became an instant national phenomenon in 1955, but four years later contestant Charles van Doren admitted they were a scam.
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Riding the Rails
The evocative stories of teenage hoboes crisscrossing America on trains during the Great Depression.
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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men - Revisited
An updated look at the Alabama tenant farmer families that Walker Evans and James Agee documented in their 1936 Pulitzer Prize-winning book.
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Forever Baseball
A wry philosophical essay on what makes baseball the great American pastime.
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God in America
For the first time on television, God in America will explore the historical role of religion in the public life of the United States.
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Freedom Riders
A courageous band of civil rights activists called Freedom Riders who in 1961 challenged segregation in the American South.
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