You Are There

- Season 4

(1955)

Louis Braille develops a system for the blind to read and write, bringing them out of the shadows of society.

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Royal Governor Hutchison forbids the British troops by firing on the angry colonists despite the harassment they receive thereby changing the course of history.

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A dramatization of America's entry into World War I.

Surrounded by Union forces, General Lee surrenders to General Grant at a farmhouse in Appomattox, Virginia.

Back on this day in the stormy 1880's the Earp brothers, marshals of Tombstone, Arizona, clashed with a powerful cowboy group that came to town armed and intent on wiping out the forces of the law and order.

Reporters are stationed at the home of poet and physician Oliver Wendell Holmes; the Cardiff N.Y. farm of William Newell, where the alleged human fossil was discovered; and at the library of Cornell University's president, Andrew D. White. Holmes and a reporter named Bud Wilson sense that the Cardiff giant is not authentic.

The world waits to see whether Roger Bannister or Jake Landy will be the victor in the mile race run in Vancouver, British Columbia. Films of the actual event are shown in addition to commentary by Walter Cronkite and his news staff.

The events surrounding Eli Whitney's unveiling of a working model of his revolutionary gin. The story follows Whitney to Washington, where he had great difficulty patenting his machine.

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"You Are There" news rendition of the Great Chicago fire of 1871 with Walter Croncite as news anchorman and on the spot interviews with fire victims and city officials and workers as the city burns.

The Atomic Age is born as Pierre and Marie Curie discover radium in their laboratory.

As snow and sleet threaten to freeze the Delaware River, General Washington attempts a crossing to surprise Hessian troops at Trenton, N.J.

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At the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, later labeled as "the bloodiest day of the Civil War," we witness the heroism of Clara Barton, who defies the danger of battle to administer first aid to the men.

From the White House press room in Washington, D.C., to the battleship Missouri for an interview with Adm. William "Bull" Halsey, to various cities around the world, we see the reactions to the news that World War 2 is finally over.

A French doctor courageously followed his convictions about treatment of the insane. He is intent on proving his point by releasing two of the most violent inmates.

Walter Cronkite hosts a TV recreation of the Great Comstock Silver Strike using many well known western TV character actors.

We follow Henry M. Stanley, correspondent for the New York Herald, on his search for Dr. David Livingstone. a Scotch-Presbyterian missionary who has been missing in Africa for three years.

From Berlin's Templehof Airport, fog and stormy weather are a serious threat to the plan to transport goods through the air corridor over Russian-held Germany.

A battalion of American soldiers, surrounded by German forces for four days, valiantly repels the enemy until help arrives.

Vincenzio Perugia gives himself up on December 10, 1913 and confesses that he stole the five-million dollar painting "for love and for Italy."

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Lt. Col. James H. Doolittle launched an air attack on Japan from the aircraft carrier Hornet, one of the most daring operations and the raid generated strategic benefits that far outweighed its limited goals.

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Walter Cronkite turns from the past to the present for 30 minutes of film covering the current explosive situation on the Mediterranean island of Cypress, with Cypriots' allegiances divided between Greece, Turkey, and Britain.