Truman: Part 2 Preview

American Experience
Air Date: 10/05/97 | Rating: NR

He was a farmer, a businessman gone bankrupt, an unknown politician from Missouri who suddenly found himself president. Facing some of the biggest crises of the century, Truman would end the war with Germany, use the atomic bomb against Japan, confront an expanding Soviet Union and wage war in Korea-all while his wife Bess refused to stay in the White House and play the role of First Lady.

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Surviving the Dust Bowl
S10 Ep8 | 51m 28s
Air Date: 11/15/09 | Expires: 08/30/25

The Dust Bowl brought drought, dust, disease and death to the Midwest for nearly a decade.

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