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Ben Franklin's Bones

Secrets of the Dead
Air Date: 01/28/15 | Expires: 01/27/25 | Rating: NR

When skeletal remains of at least 10 people turned up in the basement of Benjamin Franklin’s British residence, people wondered if the Founding Father might have had a much darker side. Franklin was aware of the bodies in his basement, but they weren’t the victims of violent acts. Rather, they were used for the purposes of an illegal anatomy school that helped shaped modern medicine.

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Ben Franklin’s Bones
S14 Ep1 | 54m 40s
Air Date: 01/28/15 | Expires: 01/27/25 | Rating: NR

Learn why Franklin held human skeletal remains in the basement of his British residence.

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JFK & LBJ: A Time for Greatness
S14 Ep2 | 55m 10s
Air Date: 08/04/15 | Expires: 08/03/25 | Rating: NR

In many ways, President Lyndon B. Johnson was the most unlikely champion of Civil Rights.

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The Real Trojan Horse
S14 Ep3 | 54m 40s
Air Date: 10/13/15 | Expires: 10/12/25 | Rating: NR

Uncover evidence that could explain how ancient Greeks got inside the walls of Troy

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Jamestown’s Dark Winter
S14 Ep4 | 54m 41s
Air Date: 11/24/15 | Expires: 01/30/27 | Rating: TV-14

Discover the truth about the first permanent English colony in the New World

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