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Clip: Season 29 | 48s
At age 23, Amelia Earhart took her first ride in an airplane and knew she had to fly.
Aired: 07/05/17
Corporate sponsorship for American Experience is provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance and Consumer Cellular. Major funding by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.
Klansville: Former North Carolina Klansman C.P. Ellis
Former North Carolina Klansman C.P. Ellis recalls his initiation.
Klansville: The film Birth of a Nation glorified the KKK
The film Birth of a Nation glorified the KKK
Personalizing the Past: Vegas Mushroom Cloud
A mushroom cloud seen from Las Vegas in 1958.
Personalizing the Past: Jerome
Japanese Americans are released from the Jerome War Relocation Center in Arkansas.
Personalizing the Past: Spring of Youth
A family sips from a “spring of youth” ca. 1947.
President Franklin Roosevelt walks down a ramp from his private railroad car ca. 1938.
Personalizing the Past: Celilo Falls
Native fishermen at Celilo Falls on the Columbia River.
Personalizing the Past: Baltimore
Workers at the Baltimore Luggage Company making suitcases in 1957.
1967, a tour bus on Haight Street claimed to be the only foreign tour in the domestic U.S.
As the war ends, America is forever transformed by the violent and bloody conflict.
As patriotism sweeps the nation, the country assembles its first mass conscripted army.
American neutrality erodes as Wilson declares “the world must be made safe for democracy.”
Command and Control, Full Film
A chilling nightmare at a Titan II missile complex in Arkansas in September, 1980.
