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- One of Television's earliest religious series providing inspirational drama and readings. Aired usually on Sunday mornings.
- An annual year end news roundup, scheduled for late December or early January, moderated for most of its run by Edward R. Murrow. The program featured discussions of world events with CBS reporters.
- Walter Cronkite hosted the reenactments of historical events. Shows included "The Landing of the Hindenburg", "The Salem Witchcraft Trials", "The Gettysburg Address", "The Fall of Troy", and "The Scuttling of the Graf Spee".
- 1953–1972TV EpisodeThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- The Sons of Liberty destroy a shipment of tea sent by the East India Company in defiance of the Tea Act, setting the stage for the American Revolutionary War.
- On April 3, 1882, Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford, a member of his own gang.
- 1953–197230m8.0 (11)TV EpisodeThis episode takes place on April 26, 1865 on the day that John Wilkes Booth was captured, hiding in by a barn in Virginia, after assassinating President Lincoln.
- After Socrates is found guilty of corrupting his students, he is forced to commit suicide by ingesting the poison hemlock.
- Joan of Arc prepares for her imminent execution.
- Andrei Vishinsky's brilliant prosecution of 16 conspirators catapults him to a powerful position under Stalin.
- Adolf Hitler consolidates his power in Germany.
- 1953–197230mTV EpisodeThe task of drafting a declaration of independence that will express the prevailing sentiment of a politically diversified population faces the Continental Congress.
- 1953–197230mTV EpisodePublic Enemy Number One John Dillinger is captured by the Indiana state police after a bank robbery in Chicago.
- Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors land in Mexico.
- The Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton publicly demonstrates the use of anesthesia for the first time.
- Alexander Hamilton is killed in a duel with US Vice President Aaron Burr.
- 1953–19726.0 (9)TV EpisodeThe German airship LZ 129 Hindenburg catches fire while attempting to dock in Lakehurst, New Jersey, killing 36 people in the process.
- On March 6, 1836, Mexican troops attack and burn the Alamo Mission at San Antonio, Texas.
- Dr. Walter Reed's research indicates that mosquitoes are carriers of yellow fever.
- On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Army surprised the Texians and Tejanos and as the defenders saw it, the Alamo was the key to the defense of Texas.
- The French artillery officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, initiating a political scandal that rocks the Third Republic.
- Rudolf Hess escapes from Germany on May 10, 1941 and parachuted to safety in Scotland. He is convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and imprisoned in Spandau Prison in West Berlin.
- In 1780, Benedict Arnold was accused of the treasonous act of giving the plans of West Point, one of America's strongest forts to the British.
- On February 24, 1868, US President Andrew Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives for removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office.
- Galileo Galilei is tried by the Inquisition and forced to recant his assertion that the Earth orbits the sun.
- A non-denominational Sunday morning religious show that covered issues from multiple perspectives.
- 1953–197230mTV Episode
- Sent by Dr. Warren across the Charles River in Charlestown, silversmith Paul Revere races to warn the colonists of the movements of the British troops in the Revolutionary war.