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Season 10
105 :10x01 - Truman (Part 1) (Oct/05/1997)
Part 1 of the life and times of Harry S. Truman deals with his pre-Washingto years in business and Missiouri politics and culminates with his being named FDRs running mate in the 1944 presidential election and subsequent elevation to the highest office in the land.
Guest Stars: Jason Robards as Narrator
Director: David Grubin
Writer: David Grubin
 
106 :10x02 - Truman (Part 2) (Oct/06/1997)
Details the presidential administration of Harry Truman from the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan to the Korean War.
Guest Stars: Jason Robards as Narrator
Director: David Grubin
Writer: David Grubin
 
107 :10x03 - Vietnam (Parts 1 & 2): Roots of War, America's Mandarin (Oct/13/1997)
Re-broadcast of the 1983 PBS series Vietnam: a Television History. The opener deals with French withdrawal from Indochina in the years after World War II and the division of Vietnam into the Communist North and the pro-western South.
Guest Stars: Will Lyman as Narrator
Writers: Elizabeth Deane, Judy Veccione
 
108 :10x04 - Vietnam (Parts 3 & 4): LBJ Goes to War, America Takes Charge (Oct/20/1997)
In this episode, American combat troops are sent to Vietnam and the fighting begins in earnest.
Guest Stars: Will Lyman as Narrator
Writers: Austin Hoyt, Andrew Pearson
 
109 :10x05 - Vietnam (Parts 5 & 6): America's Enemy, Tet 1968 (Oct/27/1997)
Profiles of the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong along with the Tet Offensive of 1968 which, although a tactical disaster for Communist forces, helped turn American public opinion against the war.
Guest Stars: Will Lyman as Narrator
Writers: Martin Smith (4), Austin Hoyt
 
110 :10x06 - Vietnam (Parts 7 & 8): Vietnamizing the War, Cambodia and Laos (Dec/02/1997)
After the Tet Offensive of 1968, the U.S. switches tactics to intensive bombing of North Vietnamese and Viet Cong supply lines. Also, the emergence and brutality of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, led by the infamous Pol Pot.
Guest Stars: Will Lyman as Narrator
Director: Bruce Palling
Writer: Martin Smith (4), Bruce Palling
 
111 :10x07 - Vietnam (Parts 9 & 10): Peace is at Hand, Homefront USA (Dec/09/1997)
The peace talks in Paris to end the war and the United States homefront are the subjects of the series' final installment.
Guest Stars: Will Lyman as Narrator
Writers: Bruce Palling, Marilyn Mellowes
 
112 :10x08 - A Midwife's Tale (Jan/19/1998)
The journals of a midwife named Martha Ballard are the sources for this episode about her life in Maine during the 18th century.
Guest Stars: Jennifer S. Rose as McMaster girl, Kaiulani Kimbrell as Sally Fletcher, Dawn McKelvie Cyr as unknown
Director: Richard P. Rogers
Writer: Laurel Ulrich, Laurie Kahn Leavitt
 
113 :10x09 - Mr. Miami Beach (Feb/02/1998)
The story of Carl Graham Fisher who helped develop Miami Beach into a tourist mecca.
Guest Stars: Liev Schreiber as Narrator
Director: Mark J. Davis
Writer: Mark J. Davis
 
114 :10x10 - Influenza 1918 (Feb/09/1998)
The story of the great influenza epidemic that broke out in 1918.
Guest Stars: Linda Hunt as Narrator
Director: Robert Kenner
Writer: Ken Chowder
 
115 :10x11 - Reagan (Part 1) (Feb/23/1998)
Part 1 deals with the acting career of Ronald Reagan and his growing interest in politics leading him to run for governor of California.
Guest Stars: David Ogden Stiers as Narrator
Directors: Austin Hoyt, Adriana Bosch
Writer: Adriana Bosch, Austin Hoyt
 
116 :10x12 - Reagan (Part 2) (Feb/24/1998)
The political career of Ronald Reagan from the governorship of California to the presidency of the United States.
Guest Stars: David Ogden Stiers as Narrator
Directors: Austin Hoyt, Adriana Bosch
Writer: Austin Hoyt, Adriana Bosch
 
117 :10x13 - Surviving the Dust Bowl (Mar/02/1998)
The story of the dust bowl which devastated the midwest during the 1930's.
Guest Stars: Liev Schreiber as Narrator
Director: Chana Gazit
Writer: Chana Gazit
 
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