Cavalcade of America — 1952
44 episodes broadcast in 1952.
A poor Black family, one generation out of slavery, pulls together.
Reformer Tom Osborne goes undercover as a convict to change the prisons.
Janet Roper, Mother of the Seas, and her mission to lost sailors.
The young Marquis de Lafayette wins his commission in Washington's army.
The tense night Theodore Roosevelt secretly became president.
Congressman Matthew Lyon defies the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Lincoln's fateful peace meeting with Confederate Alexander Stephens.
Washington's Christmas gamble at Trenton: victory or death.
General Crawford Sams's secret medical mission behind enemy lines in Korea.
The tragic first marriage of young Lieutenant Jefferson Davis.
Cincinnatus Shryock, a resourceful ferryman on the Kentucky River.
The legend of Lou Diamond, the immortal fighting Marine.
Nancy Hart, the frontier woman who captured a band of Tories.
Herman Frasch and the process that unlocked America's sulfur.
Elisha Otis and the safety elevator that raised the modern city.
Eleuthere Irenee du Pont, the French immigrant who founded DuPont.
Spencer Kellogg Brown, a young Union spy imprisoned in the Confederacy.
An inventive tank commander devises a bold WWII breakthrough.
The early Swedish settlers of the Delaware valley.
Duty, Honor, Country: three great leaders of West Point.
Harriet Quimby, America's first licensed woman pilot.
David Bushnell and his Revolutionary War submarine, the Turtle.
The sorrow and controversy of Mary Todd Lincoln.
Finn Magnus, the Danish immigrant who invented the plastic harmonica.
Dr. Edward Squibb and the founding of his pharmaceutical company.
September 16, 1952
Man of Great Importance
Catherine Fay, who founded one of Ohio's first orphanages.
Five shipwrecked sailors fight to survive in an open boat.
A true Korean War combat rescue against the odds.
Jeremiah O'Brien and the first naval skirmish of the Revolution.
Alexander Hamilton's push for a battlefield command under Washington.
A young girl turns the tide when the rebels' plans are betrayed.
Horace Greeley's controversial fight to free Jefferson Davis after the war.
A daring WWII attempt to board and capture a Nazi submarine.
The history of the American Thanksgiving holiday.
December 2, 1952
A Thousand to One
Paul Revere, and all he did beyond his famous midnight ride.
American POWs find Christmas hope behind German barbed wire.
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