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Season 7 – History Detectives

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Digging deeper into the complexities of historical mysteries, this popular PBS program uses traditional investigative techniques, modern technologies and old-fashioned legwork to provide new insights into our national history, and oftentimes presents a human story associated with age-old artifacts. The hosts include appraiser Wes Cowan, art historian Elyse Luray, and authors and professors Gwen Wright and Tukufu Zuberi.
History Detectives — Season 7

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Episode 1 Aired Jun 22, 2009 PsychoPhone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob Thomas Edison created the PsychoPhone to record messages from the afterlife; a World War II soldier's letter; watch fob commemorates murderous raid. Details Episode 2 Aired Jun 29, 2009 Manhattan Project; Galleon Shipwreck; Creole Poems Invention may have been used to build the atomic bomb; a 23-pound block of beeswax; French manuscript could be love poems. Details Episode 3 Aired Jul 6, 2009 St. Valentine's Day Massacre; Booth Letter; Cemetery Alarm Shotgun may have belonged to one of Al Capone's men; letter indicates that John Wilkes Booth's father threatened to kill President Andrew Jackson. Details Episode 4 Aired Jul 13, 2009 Sideshow Babies; Lubin Photos; Navajo Rug Baby may have been exhibited in an incubator at the 1933 Chicago World's Fair; early movie mogul Siegmund Lubin; Navajo rug. Details Episode 5 Aired Jul 20, 2009 Tokyo Rose Recording; Crazy Horse Photo; WWII Diary Recording may hold evidence used in the World War II treason trial of Iva Tugori; possible photo of Lakota warrior Crazy Horse. Details Episode 6 Aired Jul 27, 2009 Amelia Earhart Plane; Fillmore Pardon; Boxcar Home Plane fragment may be a piece of Amelia Earhart's plane; presidential pardon signed by Millard Fillmore; home may have been constructed from a railroad boxcar. Details Episode 7 Aired Aug 10, 2009 Hindenburg Artifact; John Adams Book; Birthplace of Hip Hop A metal box that may have been recovered from the Hindenburg crash site; a book that may have belonged to President John Adams. Details Episode 8 Aired Aug 17, 2009 Mussolini Dagger; Liberia Letter; N.E.A.R. Device Dagger may have belonged to Benito Mussolini; letter may indicate a family's participation in post-slavery exodus to Liberia. Details Episode 9 Aired Aug 24, 2009 WPA Mural Studies; George Washington Miniature; Japanese Balloon Bomb Mural studies that may have been commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or 1940s; miniature painting may depict George Washington. Details Episode 10 Aired Aug 31, 2009 Stalag 17 Portrait; Seadrome; Black Tom Shell A sketch of a man while he was a prisoner in a German war camp; the Seadrome, a floating airport anchored to the ocean floor. Details Episode 11 Aired Sep 7, 2009 Civil War Bridge; Scottsboro Boys Stamp; Duke Ellington Plates Site where a bridge may have been burned during the Civil War; stamp may be connected to a landmark civil rights case. Details
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Season Info

Network
PBS
Rating
TV-G
Genre
History, Special Interest
Original Language
English
Release Date
Jun 22, 2009