Season 7 |
| Special Edition: Slave Songbook; Josh White Guitar; Birthplace of Hip Hop (Feb/23/2009) | | Items include the possible first published collection of black spirituals, known as the "Slave Songs of the United States" from 1867; a possible prototype of a Josh White guitar signature guitar which had been created by the Guild Company in the 1940s; and a visit to 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx, the birthplace of Hip-Hop music. | |
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| 61 :07x01 - PsychoPhone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob (Jun/22/2009) | | Season 7 begins with a closer look at the "Psycho-Phone," a device presumed to have been built by Thomas Edison and was designed to communicate with the dead. Then, a WWII letter between two soldiers which talks about a third man's qualifications to become a dog trainer. Lastly, a watch fob which commemorates Pancho Villa's infamous raid on Columbus, New Mexico in 1916. | |
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| 63 :07x03 - St. Valentine's Day Massacre/Booth Letter/Cemetery Alarm (Jul/06/2009) | | Items include a shotgun believed to have been used by a member of Al Capone's gang during the St. Valentine's Day Massacre; a threatening letter to President Andrew Jackson believed to have been written by John Wilkes Boothe's father; and an alarm which is thought to have been an alarm against grave robbers in a cemetery. | |
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| 64 :07x04 - Sideshow Babies/Lubin Photos/Navajo Rug (Jul/13/2009) | | A woman wonders whether her mother was used as an infant as part of the incubator expedition at the 1933 World's Fair in Chicago. Also, a look at the Siegmund Lubin Studios, which made silent films in Philadelphia. And lastly, a closer look at a Navajo rug which may have a taboo symbol on it of a man in a feathered headdress holding lightening bolts. | |
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| 65 :07x05 - Tokyo Rose Recording; Crazy Horse Photo; WWII Diary (Jul/20/2009) | | Items explored include a recording believed to be from the trial of Iva Toguri, better known Tokyo Rose, the Japanese American woman who made propaganda broadcasts for the Japanese during WWII; a possible photograph of the legendary Crazy Horse, the Lakota warrior. Also, a diary written by a pilot during WWII who perished in action is returned to his family. | |
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| 66 :07x06 - Amelia Earhart Plane/Fillmore Pardon/Boxcar Home (Jul/27/2009) | | A Honolulu flight mechanic's grandson believes he possesses a piece of Amelia Earhart's airplane but needs help identifying it. Next, the 1851 presidential commutation of a death sentence to life in prison in the case of See See Sah Mah, a Native American who was charged with murdering a a St. Louis trader. Lastly, a home in Colorado which is believed to have been built solely from railroad boxcars. | |
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| 67 :07x07 - Hindenburg Artifact/John Adams Book/Birthplace of Hip-Hop (Aug/10/2009) | | A man from New Jersey claims to have the instrument panel from the Hindenburg in his possession, in which his family lore claims it came from the blimps 1937 crash site. Then, an 18th-century book titled "Trials of Patriots," may contain John Adams signature and an inscription to his son, Charles. And a search is on at 1520 Sedgwick Avenue in the Bronx to see, as legend has it, the origins of hip-hop music. | |
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| 68 :07x08 - Mussolini Dagger/Liberia Letter/N.E.A.R. Device (Aug/17/2009) | | A man from Nevada believes he holds a dagger which was owned by Italian dictator Benito Mussolini, including a letter which indicates it was retrieved from Mussolini's apartment following his death. Also, a stack of letters from post-Civil War from a freed slave emigrating from the US to Liberia; and a Cold War era, hand size device that has "National Emergency Alarm Repeater, Civilian Warning Device" printed across them. | |
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| 69 :07x09 - WPA Mural Studies/George Washington Miniature/Japanese Balloon Bomb (Aug/24/2009) | | Items look at include six paintings by Thelma Johnson Streat, which may have been mural studies commissioned by the WPA in the 1930s or '40s; a 1790 miniature color portrait of a "G. Washington" which was found stored above a Manhattan tavern in a box of documents; and a scrap of material believed to have come from a Japanese balloon bomb used during WWII. | |
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| 70 :07x10 - Stalag 17 Portrait/Seadrome/Black Tom Shell (Aug/31/2009) | | A woman from Arizona wants to find out the fate of the man who sketched a picture of her father while in a WWII P.O.W. camp in Krems, Austria. Next, the Seadrome was a floating airport which would enable transatlantic flights was proposed in the 1920s, is investigated for a man in New York who inherited photos of Seadrome from his grandfather. Also, a woman in New Jersey has possession o an unusual artifact: a live artillery shell believed to date to the 1916 sabotage attack of Black TomIsland , N.Y., munitions depot by a German spy ring. | |
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| 71 :07x11 - Civil War Bridge; Scottsboro Boys Stamp; Duke Ellington Plates (Sep/07/2009) | | A look at the possible location where Confederate forces burned a bridge to prevent Gen. William T. Sherman and his men from crossing the Broad River in Columbia, S.C., and continue burning down the territories they pass through. Also, the role of a black-and-white stamp in the case of the Scottsboro Boys, a group of nine black youths who were falsely convicted of rape in 1931; and the printing plates which were possibly used in printing the sheet music for the Duke Ellington classic "Take the A Train." | |
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