"Cavalcade of America" documented historical events using stories of individual courage, initiative and achievement, often with feel-good dramatizations of the human spirit's triumph against all odds.
Aired: Sep 30, 1952 A dramatization of how Benjamin Franklin delayed a conference between Lord Ho...
Aired: Oct 14, 1952 The Revolutionary War story of Lydia Darragh, American patriot and Philadelph...
Aired: Oct 28, 1952 The story cotton gin inventor Eli Whitney and the beginning of interchangeabl...
Aired: Nov 11, 1952 Young Nathaniel Hawthorne is prodded to greater literary efforts by an ambiti...
Aired: Nov 25, 1952 The story of how Samuel Morse, after many hardships, gained recognition for t...
Aired: Dec 9, 1952 Nurse Clara Louis Maas volunteers to be bitten by a dreaded mosquito so that ...
Aired: Dec 23, 1952 John Honeyman, American patriot, pretends to be a Tory in order to gain infor...
Aired: Jan 6, 1953 The career of Andrew Johnson, who, starting as a tailor, became the 17th Pres...
Aired: Jan 20, 1953 The story of Jefferson Davis, future president of the Confederacy, and Sarah ...
Aired: Feb 3, 1953 Story of Abe Lincoln and his love for Ann Rutledge.
Aired: Feb 17, 1953 A historical drama portraying the misunderstanding between Sam Houston and hi...
Aired: Mar 3, 1953 Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, uses himself as a guinea pi...
Aired: Mar 17, 1953 A pre-Revolutionary War drama. The freedom of the press is upheld through the...
14. The Indomitable Blacksmith
Aired: Mar 31, 1953A story about Thomas Davenport, a blacksmith, and his long struggle to invent...
Aired: Apr 14, 1953 A comedy-drama about an elderly German baker who persuades 123 Hessian soldie...
Aired: Apr 29, 1953 John Paul Jones undertakes the first hostile invasion of England since 1066 a...
Aired: May 13, 1953 English law in 1790 forbade taking written information on the cotton spinning...
Aired: May 27, 1953 Dramatizes the events which led to the decision of the pirate Jean Lafitte to...
Aired: Jun 10, 1953 Dramatizes John Adams' difficult and unpopular decision to defend eight Engli...
Aired: Jun 24, 1953 In 1866, Teddy Roosevelt goes west to begin anew after great personal tragedi...
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