Season 1 |
| 1 :01x01 - Fire Station; Face Artifact; Pop Lloyd's Baseball Field (Jul/14/2003) | | Debut: Academics and appraisers ferret out facts behind objects, legends and historical curiosities in this 10-part series. The opener considers whether President U.S. Grant really visited a Morristown, N.J., firehouse on July 4, 1876; what the facelike figure is a Mantoloking, N.J., woman found on the beach; and why a baseball stadium in Atlantic City that opened in 1949 was named after Negro League great John Henry “Pop” Lloyd. The “detectives” include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, architecture professor Gwendolyn Wright and sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 2 :01x02 - Bonnie & Clyde; Al Ringling Theatre; Sears Home (Jul/15/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Were five spent bullets owned by a Wisconsin woman taken from the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde? Did an Akron, Ohio, house come from a Sears catalog kit? And is the Al Ringling Theatre in Baraboo, Wis., the nation's first movie palace? The bullet owner's question stems from the fact that her grandfather-in-law, a Dallas “ballistician,” investigated Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, the year they died. The Akron house, built in 1916, has many similarities to the Sears houses, which detective Gwendolyn Wright calls “the American Dream in kit form.” And the 800-seat Ringling Theatre, built in 1915, is certainly ornate. But, asks detective Elyse Luray: “How do you define a movie palace?” | |
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| 3 :01x03 - Morgan Whaling Ship; Witch's House; 1909 Jigsaw Puzzle (Jul/16/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Did a whaling ship now berthed in Mystic, Conn., provide a haven for escaped slaves? Was an old house in Essex County, Mass., once owned by a woman accused of witchcraft? And did women play rough contact sports such as football in the late 19th century? The ship, the Charles W. Morgan, was owned by abolitionists, detectives Tukufu Zuberi and Wes Cowan discover. The house does sit on land once owned by a woman hanged for witchcraft in 1692. But is it that old? As for women and football, it's suggested in an 1894 picture found on an early-20th-century jigsaw puzzle. But, wonders Cowan: “Is it fact or fantasy?” | |
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| 4 :01x04 - Portrait of George Washington; Patty Cannon; Trumpet (Jul/17/2003) | | Questions for the detectives include: Did Gilbert Stuart draw a Maryland family's portrait of George Washington? Did a slave trader known in her time as “the most wicked woman in America” once live in another Maryland family's home? And was a Pennsylvania man's trumpet used in the Revolutionary War? Detectives include appraisers Wes Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architecture professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 5 :01x05 - Lee's Last Orders; Natchez House; Napoleonic Sword (Jul/21/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Is a South Carolina social club's copy of Robert E. Lee's farewell address the original? How was a one-time slave able to build a lavish home for himself in Natchez, Miss., in 1851? And was a sword that has been in a Lousiana family for generations once owned by Napoleon? Detectives include appraisers Wes Cowan and Elyse Luray; Columbia University architecture professor Gwendolyn Wright; and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 6 :01x06 - John Brown's Letters; Japanese Tea House; Poems (Jul/28/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Is a Sacramento woman a descendant of abolitionist John Brown? Were a San Francisco Chinese-American woman's ancestors interned in the Angel Island detention center? (And did her great-grandfather die there?) And what's the story about a Japanese house that was on display in San Francisco before World War II? The detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Takufu Zuberi. | |
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| 7 :01x07 - The Depot That Made Dallas; Mexico Peso; Pirate Spyglass (Aug/04/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Is an old Dallas railroad station the oldest in Texas? Are a San Antonio man's old Mexican coins tied to Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata? And did a spyglass in a Texas City, Texas, library once belong to privateer Jean Lafitte? Detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 8 :01x08 - Ventriloquist Dummy; Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot; 34 Star Flag (Aug/25/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: How did a black ventriloquist affect early-20th-century race relations? Was the Lincoln assassination hatched in a Greenwich Village woman's house? And what's the story behind the Staten Island Historical Society's Civil War-era 34-star flag? Detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 9 :01x09 - Sheridan's House; Mark Twain Watch; Prisoner Poem (Sep/01/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Was an Oregon house once occupied by Civil War general Phil Sheridan? Was an Oregonian's watch given to his grandfather by Mark Twain? And how did a poem written in England by an American POW during the Revolutionary War end up in Salem, Ore.? Detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 10 :01x10 - The Love Dish; Rebel Gun; Prison Plaque (Sep/08/2003) | | Questions for the detectives: Was a china set given to a prominent Philadelphia family by Marquis de Lafayette? Did an 18th-century flintlock rifle once belong to the Tory bandit Moses Doan? And did prisoners from Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary fight for the U.S. in World War I? Detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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Season 2 |
| 11 :02x01 - Civil War-Era Submarine; Red Cloud's Pipe; The Edison House (Jun/21/2004) | | Questions for the detectives: Did a Louisiana man's great grandfather help build a Civil War sub? Did a California woman's ancestor befriend the Oglala chief Red Cloud? And did Thomas Edison build a New Jersey concrete house? Detectives include appraiser Elyse Luray, appraiser-auctioneer Wes Cowan and architectural historian Gwendolyn Wright. | |
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| 12 :02x02 - Monopoly; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork; The Lewis and Clark Cane (Jun/28/2004) | | Investigations include similarities between a Delaware man's 100-year-old board game and Monopoly; 10 postcard-sized watercolors of a World War II-era internment camp for Japanese-Americans; and ties between a Minnesota man's cane and Lewis and Clark. The board game predates Monopoly by some 30 years (and was devised, its owner says, by the anticapitalist economist Henry George). The watercolors were painted on the back of an internment evacuation notice. And an expert says that the cane is too elegant to have been taken on the Lewis and Clark expedition, but maybe the detectives can find other ties between Lewis and Clark and the Minnesota man's family. | |
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| 13 :02x03 - LCT103/WW2 Land Craft; The Abolitionist Flag; Mail Order Brides (Jul/05/2004) | | Questions for the detectives involve a Lake Superior barge that might have seen duty on D-Day and an abolitionist banner belonging to two Michigan brothers. Then there's a series of 19th-century photos of young women. Were they advertisements for mail-order brides? The photos list the name of an “agency” in Chicago, where sociologist Tukufu Zuberi finds evidence that they could be. He also finds evidence that things might not have been on the up and up. | |
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| 14 :02x04 - The First Movie Studio; UFA Light; King Kong Camera (Jul/12/2004) | | Movie-related questions for the detectives. Among them: Was a collector's movie camera used to film “King Kong”? Was the L.A. area's first movie studio located in the unglamorous Lincoln Heights neighborhood? And was there a tie between mogul Harry Warner and a German studio that made Nazi-propaganda films? That would be surprising because Warner, a Jew, was “an outspoken antifascist,” says detective Elyse Luray. | |
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| 15 :02x05 - Dueling Pistols; Evelyn Nesbit Portrait; Little Big Horn Bayonet (Jul/19/2004) | | Questions for the detectives involve an 1859 duel over slavery, a portrait of a young woman by a renowned early-20th-century illustrator and a bayonet that might have been at Custer's Last Stand. The duel was fought between two prominent Californians and its outcome (the antislavery proponent lost) could have figured in the Golden State's decision to remain in the Union. The portrait's owner suspects that the woman depicted is Evelyn Nesbitt, “the first supermodel of the 20th century.” And the bayonet belonged to Gen. Edward Godfrey, who was a private in the Civil War and volunteered for duty in World War I, when he was in his 70s. | |
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| 16 :02x06 - Preston Brook's Riding Crop; Home of Lincoln Assassination Plot; Revolutionary War Cannon (Aug/02/2004) | | Questions involve a Revolutionary War-era cannon that might have sparked the war, a Greenwich village townhouse where the plot to kill Lincoln might have been hatched, and a riding crop given to the southern congressman who caned antislavery senator Charles Sumner in 1856. The cannon is said to have been stolen by the rebels from the British---who went to Concord to retrieve it on April 19, 1775. An actor known to have had contact with John Wilkes Booth lived in the Federal townhouse, which had become a boarding house by the 1860s. And the family of the southern congressman (Preston Brooks) believes the riding crop had been given to him by Jefferson Davis. | |
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| 17 :02x07 - Ventriloquist Dummy; Witch's House; Poems (Aug/16/2004) | | How did a black ventriloquist affect early-20th-century race relations? Were a San Francisco Chinese-American woman's ancestors interned in the Angel Island detention center? (And did her great-grandfather die there?) And was an old house in Essex County, Mass., once owned by a woman accused of witchcraft? The house does sit on land once owned by a woman hanged for witchcraft in 1692. But is it that old? Detectives include appraisers Wesley Cowan and Elyse Luray, Columbia University architectural-history professor Gwendolyn Wright and University of Pennsylvania sociologist Tukufu Zuberi. | |
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| 18 :02x08 - Bonnie & Clyde; Revolutionary War Poem; Portrait of George Washington (Aug/23/2004) | | Were five spent bullets owned by a Wisconsin woman taken from the bodies of Bonnie and Clyde? Was a poem owned by an Oregon man written by a Revolutionary War POW? And did Gilbert Stuart draw a Maryland family's portrait of George Washington? The bullet owner's question stems from the fact that her grandfather-in-law, a Dallas “ballistician,” investigated Bonnie and Clyde in 1934, the year they died. The poem was signed by a Daniel Goodhue. Can he be traced? As for the Washington portrait, the fact that Stuart seldom made drawings is only one problem with it. | |
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| 19 :02x09 - Lost Gold Ship; John Hunt Morgan Saddle; Cesar Chavez Banner (Sep/06/2004) | | Questions for the detectives concern the 1897 Klondike gold rush, a Civil War-era saddle and California farmworkers-union leader Cesar Chavez. Is a shipwreck that an Alaska environmentalist finds in a secluded delta the ship that “launched” the gold rush? (Actually, it carried the first men who struck gold back to Seattle.) It sank 13 years later. As for the saddle, its owner thinks it belonged to John Hunt Morgan, “the south's most notorious guerrilla general,” says detective Wes Cowan, a descendant of one of Morgan's “raiders.” And the Chavez segment concerns a banner in the labor archive at San Francisco State University. Was it carried on Chavez' 1966 march from Delano, Cal., to Sacramento in support of efforts of organize grape pickers? | |
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| 20 :02x10 - Pretty Boy Floyd Handgun; Paul Cuffee Muster Roll; Pop Lloyd Baseball Field (Sep/13/2004) | | Questions involve “Pretty Boy” Floyd, Negro League baseball great John Henry “Pop” Lloyd and a Revolutionary War muster roll. A California man owns a handgun that was given to him by his uncle, who said that Floyd had given it to him in Missouri in 1934 for acting as lookout for the notorious bank robber. As for Lloyd, why was a baseball stadium in Atlantic City that opened in 1949 named after him? And the muster, from Falmouth, Mass., in 1780, lists Paul Cuffee as one of its soldiers. Is it authentic? And is the Paul Cuffee listed the man who was a noted black businessman and patriot? | |
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| 21 :02x11 - Charlie Parker Saxophone; Prison Plaque; Koranic School Book (Sep/20/2004) | | Questions involve bebop legend Charlie Parker, a World War I plaque in a Philadelphia prison and a 200-year-old American schoolbook that contains verses from the Koran. Or does it? Most of the wording doesn't match translations available at the time. But there's no doubting the intellectual prowess of the young women who copied them. The plaque leads to a warm story about a longtime prison warden seeking ways to rehabilitate his “boys.” As for Parker, a California woman's father, a jazz musician, owned an alto saxophone that, he told her, had belonged to “Bird.” Did it? It's not a top-of-the-line instrument, but that doesn't bother appraiser Dan Matzger. “The saxophone isn't as important as the saxophone player,” he tells detective Wes Cowan. | |
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| 22 :02x12 - Body in the Basement; Newport U-Boat; Shippen Golf Club (Sep/27/2004) | | Questions involve a 17th-century skeleton found in Maryland, a pair of World War II-era propellers and an antique putter that might have belonged to early pro John Shippen. Archaelogists found the skeleton scrunched up---and buried beneath trash---in what was once a cellar near Annapolis. “There's a dark side to this,” suspects detective Gwen Wright. The propellers could very well be from a Nazi U-boat. Was it the one that sunk a U.S. Navy ship off Portland, Maine, in April 1945? The sons of a sailor who died on the ship want to know. And did Shippen, a black, use that putter when he played (at age 16) in the 1896 U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club on Long Island? | |
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Season 3 |
| 23 :03x01 - The Spirit of St. Louis; Suicide Pin; Image of Apache Warrior Geronimo (Jun/27/2005) | | Puzzles involving Charles Lindbergh, American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and Geronimo are investigated. Two New Jersey brothers suspect that their uncle built the Spirit of St. Louis's Wright Whirlwind J-5C engine. A used toolbox bought by a Kansas City man contains two pins that could be “poison pins” similar to the one Powers had with him when he was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960. And a Kentucky woman has a photo she thinks depicts the Apache warrior. | |
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| 24 :03x02 - Black Star Line Stock Certificates; Mickey Mouse's Origin; Pro-Nazi Newspaper in Texas (Jul/07/2005) | | Questions concern black leader Marcus Garvey, Mickey Mouse and a WWII POW camp in Texas. A North Carolina woman found two stock certificates for Garvey's Black Star Line steamship company that her great-grandfather purchased in 1919. A San Francisco antiques dealer owns a toy mouse named “Micky” with a patent date of 1926 on it (two years before Walt Disney invented Mickey). And a Texas woman has heard stories that the government expropriated her family's land in 1942 for a camp for German POWs. | |
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| 24 :03x04 - Cherokee Bible; Slave Banjo; United Empire Loyalists (Jul/25/2005) | | Genealogy figures into segments examining the 1838 “Trail of Tears” Cherokee relocation, a banjo's history and Revolutionary War British loyalists. In the first segment, a Texas woman is curious about a Cherokee-language bible that has been in her family for generations. Bluesman Taj Mahal discusses the history of a banjo that might have been owned by a slave in the second segment. And in the third, a California woman is intrigued by the notation “United Empire Loyalist” on her family tree. | |
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| 24 :03x05 - Portrait of George Washington; Revolutionary War Poem; Revolutionary War Cannon (Aug/01/2005) | | A Revolutionary War-themed program features segments on a poem, a cannon and a drawing of George Washington, presumed to be by painter Gilbert Stuart. The poem was signed by a POW named Daniel Goodhue in 1780. The cannon is said to have been stolen by the rebels from the British, who went to retrieve it---from Concord, Mass., on April 19, 1775. And as for the Washington sketch, the fact that Stuart seldom made drawings is only one problem with it. | |
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| 24 :03x06 - Secrets of the Tape; Mountain Mail Bag; Banned Birth Control Box (Aug/15/2005) | | Questions concern a vintage automobile tape player, a 19th-century California mailbag and birth control in the 1890s. The tape player, owned by an Alabama man, might be the first of its kind in the U.S., and the technology behind it might have been developed by the Nazis. The bag might have belonged to the legendary “Snowshoe” Thompson, who delivered mail in the Sierras from 1856 to 1876. And a Missouri woman owns a box dated 1894. Its inscription says it contained a birth-control device. | |
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| 25 :03x07 - Doc Holliday’s Watch; Civil War Female Soldiers; Japanese Internment Camp Artwork (Aug/22/2005) | | Questions concern a watch that might have belonged to Old West figure Doc Holliday, female soldiers in the Civil War and watercolors of a World War II internment camp for Japanese-Americans. The watch might also have been given to Holliday (a dentist as well as a gunman) by Wyatt Earp. Triggering the segment on women in the Civil War is a photo of a member of the 2nd Louisiana Infantry. And the 10 postcard-sized watercolors were painted on the back of an internment evacuation notice. | |
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| 26 :03x08 - Hermann Goering's Shotgun; Calf Creek Arrow; the Edison House (Aug/29/2005) | | Questions concern Thomas A. Edison, Nazi Hermann Goering and an arrowhead found in a bison skull in Oklahoma. A New Jersey man believes that his concrete house was designed and built by Edison, and a New York State man believes he owns a shotgun that was taken from the Luftwaffe chief's home when he was arrested in 1945. As for the arrowhead, it might have been fashioned some 5000 years ago by the Calf Creek people. | |
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| 27 :03x09 - Coney Island Lion; Legacy of a Doll; Ballet Shoes (Sep/05/2005) | | “Junior detectives” help the adult sleuths sniff out the stories behind ornamental lion claws, a jazz-age Broadway shoemaker and a doll linked to Robert E. Lee. A New York man thinks the zinc claws he bought at an estate sale were part of a lion that guarded Coney Island's Steeplechase Park. A Maryland grandmother was told that her doll was given by the Lees to one of their slaves. And a Long Island teen has heard that her great-great-grandfather made dance shoes for Broadway stars. | |
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| 28 :03x10 - Leisureama Homes; Jim Thorpe Tickets; 1667 Land Grant (Sep/12/2005) | | Questions concern the legendary athlete Jim Thorpe, a 1667 Manhattan land grant and the “Leisureama” homes developed in the 1950s by the designer of the model kitchen in which Nixon and Khrushchev conducted their impromptu “kitchen debate” in 1959. Of Thorpe, the question is: Did he play basketball? The land grant was given to a black woman by the first British governor of New York. And the grandson of the Leisurama homes' designer is looking for examples of the houses in Florida. | |
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| 29 :03x11 - Home for Unwed Mothers; Long Expedition Encampment; Evelyn Nesbit Portrait (Sep/19/2005) | | Questions concern an adoptee searching for her birth parents, an 1819 expedition into the West and a portrait of a young woman by early-20th-century illustrator Howard Chandler Christy. The adoptee has a medallion that was attached to her diaper when she left a home for unwed mothers with her adoptive parents. A Nebraska man owns land on the Missouri River where the explorers camped. And the portrait owner believes the woman depicted is Evelyn Nesbitt, “the first supermodel of the 20th century.” | |
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Season 4 |
| 30 :04x01 - The Chisholm Trail; Harry Houdini Poster; McKinley Casket Flag (Jun/19/2006) | | Puzzles involving the Chisholm Trail, Houdini posters and a flag that may have draped the coffin of President William McKinley, assassinated in 1901. Included: determining how far south the Chisholm Trail extended; checking the authenticity of Harry Houdini posters for a Chicago magic show; learning if a flag handed down to the great-grandson of McKinley's bodyguard actually adorned the 25th president's casket. | |
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| 31 :04x02 - Wartime Baseball; Confederate Eyeglass; Howard Hughes' Invention (Jun/26/2006) | | Questions surrounding a baseball autographed by Dizzy Dean, a brass eyeglass containing an image of Jefferson Davis, and a question on credit for an oil-drilling device. Included: investigation of a 1944 baseball game in which the players supposedly included Dean, Satchel Paige and an Air Force staff sergeant; whether an eyeglass belonged to a Confederate supporter; whether a twin-cone roller-rock bit was invented by Howard Hughes or a San Jose resident's grandfather. | |
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| 32 :04x03 - Coca-Cola Trade Card; Vicksburg Map; Lawrence Strike (Jul/03/2006) | | Puzzles involve an 1886 Coca-Cola trade card, a map connected to a Civil War battle and a billy club from a 1912 textile-factory strike in Lawrence, Mass. Included: a trip to Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta to try to verify the trade card info; digging up details pertaining to the 1863 siege of Vicksburg, Miss.; a journey to Lawrence to investigate the Bread and Roses strike. | |
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| 34 :04x05 - U.S.S. Indianapolis; Highlander Badge; Spirit of St. Louis (Jul/17/2006) | | Puzzles concerning items believed to have come from a WWII kamikaze attack; a badge that may have belonged to a British soldier in the Revolutionary War; and two New Jersey brothers who suspect that their uncle built the Spirit of St. Louis's Wright Whirlwind J-5C engine. | |
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Season 5 |
| 41 :05x01 - 3-D Cuban Missile Crisis; Amon `n' Andy Record; Women's Suffrage Painting (Jun/25/2007) | | The fifth season begins with a portable projection screen that may have been used by President Kennedy to view spy photos during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also: an aluminum record that might contain an original recording of the “Amos 'n' Andy” program; and a painting that may have been an original portrait used in the women's suffrage movement. | |
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| 42 :05x02 - Continental Currency; Short-Snorter; Liberty Bell Pin (Jul/02/2007) | | A possible Colonial-era $6 bill found by a Nebraska family; and a British 10-shilling note said to have been signed by FDR, Winston Churchill and George Patton. Also: A North Carolina woman has a pin she claims was made from metal taken from the Liberty Bell. | |
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| 43 :05x03 - GAR Photograph; Jefferson Pledge; Dempsey Fight Bell (Jul/09/2007) | | A fight bell that may have been used in a Jack Dempsey boxing match; a photo that may depict white Civil War soldiers standing with two black men, all of whom are thought to be members of the Grand Army of the Republic. Also: a document that may have Thomas Jefferson's signature on it, along with a pledge that would help finance a school. | |
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| 47 :05x07 - Red Cloud Letter; `32 Ford Roadster; Cast Iron Eagle (Aug/20/2007) | | A 1932 Ford Roadster that may have been used in dry-lake races; a letter that may have been written by Mount Rushmore sculptor Gutzon Borglum to James Red Cloud of the Lakota tribe; a cast-iron eagle that might have been a decoration for a New York post office | |
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| 48 :05x08 - Lincoln Letter; Quaker Map; USS Indianapolis (Aug/27/2007) | | A letter that may have been signed by Abraham Lincoln; a map that might have markings for the Underground Railroad in Ohio; and artifacts that may have been aboard the USS Indianapolis when the ship was sunk by a Japanese sub during WWII. | |
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| 50 :05x10 - USS Thresher; Pete Gray Cartoon; Manhattan Project Letter (Sep/10/2007) | | The fifth season ends with documents that may be related to the USS Thresher, a nuclear sub that sank in 1963; storyboards that may be for a comic strip about one-armed baseball player Pete Gray; and handwritten documents that may pertain to the Manhattan Project during World War II. | |
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Season 6 |
| 51 :06x01 - WWII Diary; 1856 Mormon Table; Annie Oakley Coin (Jun/30/2008) | | Among the items investigated are a pilot's WWII diary, an 1856 book that might be the memoirs of a New York woman married to a Mormon elder, and a Napoleon coin issued in 1853 which was believed to have been shot by Annie Oakley. | |
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| 52 :06x02 - Red Hand Flag; Seth Eastman Painting; Isleton Tong (Jul/07/2008) | | Items investigated include a painting believed to have been created by artist Seth Eastman; a building in which a Chinese tong may have occupy; and a red flag which may have been carried into battle during WWI by a black infantry regiment. | |
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| 55 :06x05 - GAR Photograph; Bill Pickett Saddle; Hitler Films (Aug/04/2008) | | A look at previously aired segments includes a saddle believed to have been owned by cowboy Bill Pickett, film cans which may contain movies of Nazi officials, and a picture of a white Civil War soldier between two black men, all believed to be members of the Grand Army of the Republic. | |
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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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