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Through original archival material, expert testimony and dramatic re-creations using CGI technology to place Theo E.J. Wilson in the scene, each episode challenges ideas of what really happened during some of the most pivotal moments in history.This season explores Abraham Lincoln's assassination; the Hindenburg disaster; the Salem witch trials; the death of Jesse James; the Oklahoma City bombing; the battle of Stalingrad; H.H. Holmes' murder spree during the 1893 Chicago World's Fair; the Chernobyl accident; the 1965 Bloody Sunday march from Selma to Montgomery; the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster; the 1889 catastrophic Johnstown flood in eastern Pennsylvania and the St. Valentine's Day massacre.
Theo Wilson time travels to the tension-filled 60s to see how inspirational Civil Rights hero, John Lewis, came to lead a historic march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday. Wilson charts Lewis' career from his first childhood protest, to risking his body and life as a civil rights icon, and the Bloody Sunday march, and how a decision to air it on national TV helped lead to change.
It's 1929 and inside a garage in downtown Chicago, host Theo Wilson witnesses the bloodiest execution in gangland history--the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. But how did Al Capone and a Northside/Southside battle triggered by Americans' thirst for booze get us here?
Theo Wilson travels back in time to April 19, 1995, when Oklahoma City is rocked by a two-ton fertilizer bomb shortly after 9 AM. The catastrophic result of years of planning by domestic terrorist, Timothy McVeigh. Theo investigates the layers of this complicated story, taking us beyond the Ryder box truck carrying the explosives and into the mind of the man who perpetrated one of the most evil acts in American history.
Theo Wilson time-travels to the Battle of Stalingrad in 1942 where the underdog Russian Army is about to pull off a victory that will turn the tide of the war in favor of Allied forces. Bombs explode, concrete rains down and soldiers' limbs freeze in subzero temperatures as the bloodiest battle in history wages on--and Wilson wants to know, how did the rag tag Russians emerge with a decisive win?
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