Despite being hard on his only son Edsel, Henry Ford doted upon his grandchildren.
Watch the opening scene of Henry Ford.
For many years, Henry Ford took annual camping trips with his close friends Thomas Edison, Harvey Firestone, and John Burroughs.
The biography of a farm boy who rose from obscurity to become the most influential American innovator of the 20th century.
Actors, antique radios, and the greatest prank of all times. Behind the scenes with the producers of War of the Worlds.
After the infamous 1938 radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds, thousands of listeners wrote letters. American Experience film producers used the letters as inspiration for dramatized on-camera interviews. Watch the outtakes.Â
Watch the opening scene of War of the Worlds.
Martians! In New Jersey! It was the most famous invasion that never happened.Â
In 1972, Nixon took a risk and responded to North Vietnamese aggression by bombing Hanoi.
Protests against the Vietnam War turned personal for President Johnson.
In 1964, American bombers in Vietnam demonstrated that LBJ was a committed anti-Communist.
President Nixon garnered approval with his "Silent Majority" speech in November 1969.
