This anthology series presented episodes in the lives of true-life historical personages who each faced a terrible crisis in their life.
Aired: Nov 8, 1964 A finely study of a relatively obscure figure, Oscar W. Underwood, and a prob...
Aired: Nov 15, 1964 Mary S. McDowell is a Brooklyn school teacher at the outbreak of WWI. As a Qu...
Aired: Nov 29, 1964 In 1850 Senator Thomas Hart Benton of Missouri hopes for California statehood...
Aired: Dec 6, 1964 In 1894, Richard T. Ely is a professor at the University of Wisconsin. When t...
Aired: Dec 13, 1964 Gov. Sam Houston's losing battle to keep Texas in the Union during the secess...
Aired: Dec 20, 1964 The story of Gov. John Slaton of Georgia, who in the early 1900s pardoned Leo...
Aired: Dec 27, 1964 As a young lawyer and politician, John Adams takes on the unpopular task of d...
Aired: Jan 3, 1965 In 1946 many Nazis are sentenced to death at the Nuremberg trials. Senator Ro...
Aired: Jan 10, 1965 In early Boston, midwife Anne Hutchinson is put on trial for preaching her un...
10. General Alexander William Doniphan
Aired: Jan 17, 1965In 1838 tensions are rising between the Mormons and the other settlers of Mis...
Aired: Jan 24, 1965 Illinois Governor, John Peter Altgeld, reviews the cases of the men convicted...
Aired: Jan 31, 1965 The story of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who fled to the North in th...
Aired: Feb 7, 1965 In 1850 Daniel Webster is a US Senator from Massachusetts and an outspoken ab...
Aired: Feb 14, 1965 In 1916 Woodrow Wilson nominates Judge Louis D. Brandeis to the US Supreme Co...
Aired: Feb 21, 1965 In 1833, Prudence Crandall runs a girls boarding school in Canterbury CT. Tro...
Aired: Feb 28, 1965 In 1860 Andrew Johnson is a US Senator from Tennessee. He desperately tries t...
Aired: Mar 7, 1965 In 1869 Cuba is struggling for its independence from Spain. Secretary of Stat...
Aired: Mar 14, 1965 In 1920 the New York Legislature threatens to expel 5 members who are in the ...
Aired: Mar 21, 1965 In 1868 President Andrew Johnson appoints General Thomas to replace Edwin Sta...
Aired: Mar 28, 1965 In 1917 a lame duck US House of Representatives passes the Armed Ships Bill. ...
Aired: Apr 4, 1965 In 1887 President Grover Cleveland goes up against the GAR when he threatens ...
Aired: Apr 11, 1965 In 1807 British warships are raiding US vessels and conscripting US sailors. ...
Aired: Apr 18, 1965 In 1807 Aaron Burr is on trial for treason. President Jefferson and the major...
24. Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey
Aired: Apr 25, 1965The true story of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, a judge in Denver, Colorado, who led ...
Aired: May 2, 1965 In 1787 George Mason refused to sign the US Constitution because it did not c...
Aired: May 9, 1965 The story of U.S. Senator Thomas Corwin, a rising star in the Whig party in t...
Main Cast
