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The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Aired February 9, 2009 | 52 min

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.

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George H.W. Bush

Aired December 4, 2018 | 3 hrs 10 min

The life and career of our 41st president, from his service in World War II to the Oval Office, and his role as the patriarch of a political family whose influence is unequaled in modern American life.

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Oswald's Ghost

Aired January 14, 2008

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy in Dallas on November 22, 1963 left a psychic wound on America that is with us still today.

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John and Abigail Adams

Aired January 23, 2006

A chronical of an inspiring political marriage, and the birth of a nation.

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The Murder of Emmett Till

Aired April 15, 2023 | 53 min

In August 1955, a 14-year-old Black boy named Emmett Till was murdered by two white men. His death helped mobilize the civil rights movement.

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Jimmy Carter

Aired November 11, 2002 | 3 hrs 39 min

One of the greatest dramas in American politics, President Jimmy Carter was overwhelmingly voted out of office in a humiliating defeat in 1980, only to become one of the most admired statesmen and humanitarians in America and the world.

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Ulysses S. Grant

Aired May 5, 2002

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transformation from union to nation.

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Mount Rushmore

Aired January 20, 2002

High on a granite cliff in South Dakota's Black Hills tower the huge carved faces of four American presidents: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore Roosevelt.

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Woodrow Wilson

Aired January 6, 2002

President Woodrow Wilson led America during World War I, created the Federal Reserve, and helped create the League of Nations. Part of the award-winning collection The Presidents.

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The Duel

Aired February 14, 2000

The most famous duel in American history climaxed a longstanding conflict between two of the most important men in the country. The conflict between Alexander Hamilton, an architect of the Constitution and designer of American capitalism, and Aaron Burr, vice president of the United States and the first modern politician.

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Nixon's China Game

Aired January 31, 2000

In February 1972, after a quarter-century of mutual antagonism between the United States and China, President Richard Nixon traveled to Beijing for an historic encounter with Chairman Mao Tse-tung.

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Eleanor Roosevelt

Aired January 10, 2000

Eleanor Roosevelt supported her husband's New Deal and advocated for civil rights, becoming one of the 20th century's most influential women.

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