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Not My Fingerprint
Season 2 Episode 21
May 20, 2004. A lawyer named Brandon Mayfield walks out of a Portland, Oregon courtroom a free man. About two weeks earlier, Mayfield was arrested by…
4 years, 10 months ago
The Chinese Immigrants Who Built America
Season 2 Episode 20
May 10, 1869. On the dusty, barren plains of Promontory Summit, Utah, a crowd is gathered to celebrate an American milestone – the completion of the …
4 years, 11 months ago
Mother’s Day Mayhem
Season 2 Episode 19
May 9, 1905. After weeks of illness and visits from ten different doctors, Anna Jarvis’s mother dies. In the days that follow, Jarvis makes a promise…
4 years, 11 months ago
Fighting for 504
Season 2 Episode 18
April 30, 1977. Nearly a month after entering San Francisco’s Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, a group of 150 demonstrators is going hom…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Brink of World War III
Season 2 Episode 17
April 19, 1951. General Douglas MacArthur's plane touches down in DC just after midnight. He’s coming home from fighting the Korean War. Over twelve …
4 years, 11 months ago
Killing the Gold Standard
Season 2 Episode 16
April 18, 1933. It’s almost midnight in Washington, DC. Newly-elected President Franklin Delano Roosevelt has gathered his economic advisors for a la…
5 years ago
More Than a Home Run
Season 2 Episode 15
April 8, 1974. On a humid night in Atlanta, Hank Aaron is poised to make history. On the all-time home run leaderboard, Aaron is tied with the legend…
5 years ago
148 Tornadoes in 18 Hours
Season 2 Episode 14
April 3, 1974. Across America, many people wake up this morning thinking it will be a normal day. But in the next 24 hours, almost 150 tornadoes will…
5 years ago
Surrogacy on the Stand
Season 1 Episode 13
March 27, 1986. Mary Beth Whitehead is in labor. She’s giving birth to a baby girl today, and her husband Richard is by her side. But the Whiteheads …
5 years ago
Revenge of the Ronin
Season 2 Episode 212
March 20, 1703. Today, almost fifty men, scattered around the city of Edo, Japan, are waiting to die. They’re all former samurai who had served the s…
5 years ago