American Experience

The Bombing of Wall Street: Chapter 1

Clip: Season 30 | 9m 52s

The story behind a mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead and remains unsolved today.

Aired: 02/06/18

Rating: NR

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Genetic Screening: Controlling Heredity

The ability to prevent suffering through genetic screenings sparks difficult questions.

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The Eugenics Crusade: Chapter 1

Watch Chapter 1 of The Eugenics Crusade.

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The shocking history of the early 20th-century campaign to breed a “better” American race.

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Besides inventing Corn Flakes, John Kellogg helped promote the American Eugenics movement.

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P.G. Lowery’s all-black band gained early twentieth century fame through the circus.

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Revisit the heyday of America’s traveling circus and meet the showmen who created it.

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The Eugenics Crusade

The Eugenics Crusade tells the story of the campaign to breed a “better” American race,

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The Eugenics Crusade

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The Circus, Part 2

Revisit the heyday of America’s traveling circus and meet the showmen who created it.

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The Circus, Part 2

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The Circus, Part 1

Explore the early days of this popular, influential and distinctly American entertainment.

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As RFK began to move beyond the shadow of his brother, he, too, was assassinated.

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The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act remained in force for more than 60 years.

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The fateful narrative of James Earl Ray who shot Dr. Martin Luther King on April 4, 1968.

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The Bombing of Wall Street

The mostly-forgotten 1920 bombing in the nation’s financial center that left 38 dead.

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Story of a Wall Street tycoon who helped alter course of history in World War II.

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