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Season 21
246 :21x01 - The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (Jan/26/2009)
Nuclear physicist Robert Oppenheimer, considered by many to be the father of the atomic bomb, fell from grace in the Cold War when he lost his security clearance.
Guest Stars: Campbell Scott as Narrator
Director: David Grubin
Writer: David Grubin
 
247 :21x02 - The Polio Crusade (Feb/02/2009)
The story behind the efforts to find a vaccine that would eliminate polio. Included is a profile on "March of Dimes" developer, lawyer Basil O'Connor (1892 - 1972); a competition between researchers Jonas Salk and Albert Sabin to find a vaccine; and remarks from historians, scientists, polio survivors and Julius Younger, a member of Jonas Salk's research team.
Guest Stars: Linda Hunt as Narrator
Director: Sarah Colt
Writer: Sarah Colt
 
248 :21x03 - The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln (Feb/09/2009)
A look back at the events which lead up to and followed President Abraham Lincoln's assassination, just two months after being reelected for his second term. Included is the search for his killer, John Wilkes Booth, along with insights given by Lincoln scholars and historians.
Guest Stars: Chris Cooper as Narrator, Will Patton as voice of Lincoln
Director: Barak Goodman
Writer: Barak Goodman
 
249 :21x04 - A Class Apart (Feb/23/2009)
Story of a 1951 murder committed by a Chicano laborer, that brought into question the legal status of Hispanics in the United States. The case of Hernandez vs. the state of Texas was a landmark case in 1954, which through a unanimous ruling, declared that Mexican Americans were protected under the 14th Amendment.
Directors: Carlos Sandoval, Peter Miller (3)
Writer: Carlos Sandoval
 
250 :21x05 - We Shall Remain (Part 1): After the Mayflower (Apr/13/2009)
Five part series dealing with Native American contact with whites and its impact upon their culture. Part 1 deals with the relations in New England between the tribes and the Puritan settler.
Guest Stars: Benjamin Bratt as Narrator
Director: Chris Eyre
Writer: Anne Makepeace, Mark Zwonitzer, Sharon Grimberg
 
251 :21x06 - We Shall Remain (Part 2): Tecumseh's Vision (Apr/20/2009)
The great war chief Tecumseh puts together a Native American coalitiion to push back white expansion into Native American territories.
Guest Stars: Benjamin Bratt as Narrator
Directors: Ric Burns, Chris Eyre
Writer: Ric Burns
 
252 :21x07 - We Shall Remain (Part 3): Trail of Tears (Apr/27/2009)
Episode dealing with the forcible re-settlement of the Cherokee from their homelands in the southeast to the newly established Indian Territory in Oklahoma.
Guest Stars: Benjamin Bratt as Narrator
Director: Chris Eyre
Writer: Mark Zwonitzer
 
253 :21x08 - We Shall Remain (Part 4): Geronimo (May/04/2009)
The story of the Apache chief who was one of the last Native Americans to continue armed resistance against the United States government.
Guest Stars: Benjamin Bratt as Narrator
Directors: Sarah Colt, Dustinn Craig
Writer: Sarah Colt, Dustinn Craig
 
254 :21x09 - We Shall Remain (Part 5): Wounded Knee (May/11/2009)
The series jumps forward nearly a century with the story of the protests of 1973 by the Sioux over their living conditions and their subsequent occupation of Wounded Knee.
Guest Stars: Benjamin Bratt as Narrator
Director: Stanley Nelson
Writer: Marcia Smith
 
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