Season episodes list 8

S08E01

S08E01 : Murder of the Century (aired on 10/16/1995)

The nation is fascinated by the high-profile murder of a famous architect, apparently because of…
S08E02

S08E02 : Edison's Miracle of Light (aired on 10/23/1995)

Inventor Thomas A. Edison experiments with electricity, long-burning filaments, and glass bulbs to…
S08E03

S08E03 : Chicago 1968 (aired on 11/13/1995)

The nation watches a political convention that in many ways is a symbol of the turbulent times in…
S08E04

S08E04 : The Orphan Trains (aired on 11/27/1995)

The story of orphaned inner-city children shipped to rural locations and new lives as part of a…
S08E05

S08E05 : Freedom on My Mind (aired on 01/15/1996)

An account of the struggle to register African Americans to vote in the state of Mississippi in the…
S08E06

S08E06 : Daley: The Last Boss (aired on 01/22/1996)

Biography of Chicago mayor Richard Daley, considered one of the last major heads of big city…
S08E07

S08E07 : The Battle Over Citizen Kane (aired on 01/29/1996)

Orson Welles' movie stirs the ire of publisher William Randolph Hearst, the man who the film was…
S08E08

S08E08 : The Wright Stuff (aired on 02/12/1996)

The story of Wilbur and Orville Wright and the earliest days of aviation.
S08E09

S08E09 : Spy in the Sky (aired on 02/26/1996)

The Cold War forces the United States to build very high altitude U2 planes to record photographs…