Episode Ten

Name: Episode Ten
Genre: Reality, Suspense, Documentary
Released: September 10, 2007

History Detectives: Season 5: Episode 510

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History Detectives: Special Investigations

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PBS | Air Date: September 10, 2007

Summary: USS Thresher - A Chicopee, Massachusetts, contributor has a stack of technical drawnings and engineering documents that bear the numbers and letters SSN-593, an appellation that belonged to the nuclear submarine USS Thresher, an attack class vessel that had been the pride of the U.S. Navy during the Cold War. On April 10, 1963, the ThresherUSS Thresher - A Chicopee, Massachusetts, contributor has a stack of technical drawnings and engineering documents that bear the numbers and letters SSN-593, an appellation that belonged to the nuclear submarine USS Thresher, an attack class vessel that had been the pride of the U.S. Navy during the Cold War. On April 10, 1963, the Thresher was undergoing deep-sea trials when, along with its nuclear reactor, the vessel and all hands sank 220 miles off the coast of Massachusetts. Pete Gray Cqrtoon - A comic book collector in Brooklyn, New York, owns several storyboards from a cartoon comic strip dating to the immediate post-World War II period. The strip relates the story of Pete Gray, the first one-armed major league baseball player, who later became an icon for disabled WWII veterans. The contributor is curious to learn the identity of the mystery cartoonist. Because many artists from the golden age of cartoons - the late 1930s through the 50s - often moonlighted in advertising or more "respectable" trades, their identities were often undisclosed. Manhattan Project Letter - A contributor in New York City has a scrapbook of typed and handwritten documents connected with the top-secret Manhattan Project, which developed the United States' first nuclear bombs during World War II. The most intriguing item, a letter dated just after the war, is a plea for reduced secrecy regarding nuclear affairs in the scientific community once hostilities ended. Did the scientists' letter help persuade President Harry S. Truman to change policy in the post-war era?… Expand

Genre(s): Reality, Suspense, Documentary

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S5:E510. Episode Ten
Air Date: September 10, 2007
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