American Experience Season 17

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17x01 RFK aired Oct 04, 2004

Robert Kennedy's career in public service, his work in his brother's administration, and his presidential aspirations at the time of his assassination.

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17x02 The Fight aired Oct 18, 2004

The 1938 fight between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling and the political and social ideologies the world thought were represented by the boxers.

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17x03 Fidel Castro aired Jan 31, 2005

The rise of communist rule in Cuba and Castro's long era of leadership.

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17x04 Building the Alaska Highway aired Feb 07, 2005

Worries over a possible Japanese invasion of Alaska prompt the construction of a road to connect the territory to the 48 states.

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17x05 Kinsey aired Feb 14, 2005

The startling and controversial findings of a biologist who sought to understand the range of human sexual relations.

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17x06 Mary Pickford aired Apr 04, 2005

The life and career of one of the first "superstars" of the American screen.

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17x07 The Great Transatlantic Cable aired Apr 11, 2005

America lays a telegraph cable across the Atlantic and enables almost-instant communication with Europe for the first time in history.

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17x08 The Massie Affair aired Apr 18, 2005

Racial anger erupts in Hawaii after five non-White men are wrongly accused of raping a Navy wife in the early 1930s.

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17x09 Victory in the Pacific aired May 02, 2005

How the end of World War II in the Pacific Theater affected Americans and Japanese.

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17x10 The Carter Family: Will the Circle Be Unbroken aired May 09, 2005

The genesis of one of America's most influential performing families and the struggles to keep the group together in the face of personal problems.

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17x11 Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst aired May 23, 2005

The kidnapping of the heiress and her later sympathies to the cause of her captors.

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17x12 Guerilla: The Taking of Patty Hearst aired May 23, 2005

The kidnapping of the heiress and her later sympathies to the cause of her captors.

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17x13 The Massie Affair aired Jul 04, 2005

Racial anger erupts in Hawaii after five non-White men are wrongly accused of raping a Navy wife in the early 1930s.

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17x99 The Fall of Saigon aired Apr 25, 2005

Events surrounding the loss of the South Vietnamese city and the struggle of those who lived there.

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