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Apr 1, 1936 · 30:06
Literature is an important index of a countries progress whether the work of its authors be critical or inspirational…
Apr 1, 1946 · 29:17
After the war in the Pacific Dick Pearson thought he need peace and quiet so took himself away to work at a lighthouse.…
Apr 1, 1952 · 27:30
It's been said that the best way to measure and industrial civilization is by the amount of sulphuric acid it uses…
Apr 10, 1939 · 28:20
This is the story of John Howard Payne (June 9, 1791 – April 10, 1852) who is famously remembered as the writer of the…
Apr 10, 1944 · 28:10
American soldiers made a considerable contribution to a particular fighting technique, a tradition which is as American…
Apr 10, 1951 · 25:23
This is the story of Henry and Betty Hough and their determination to get their small town weekly newspaper to press…
Apr 11, 1949 · 24:50
It's 1862 in Nashville, Tennessee, and Sarah Polk, the widow of the President, tries to promote a romance between a…
Apr 11, 1950 · 26:26
Nathan Straus and his wife became concerned with how unclean, unpasteurized milk fed to infants was the chief cause of…
Apr 12, 1943 · 24:09
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with…
Apr 12, 1948 · 29:45
Today we bring you an unusual broadcast for the Cavalcade of America. It's a fantasy play, set aboard 'The Freedom…
Apr 13, 1938 · 29:57
The Dupont Cavalcade brings you a picture of Thomas Jefferson as a great leader in American education and at the close…
Apr 13, 1942 · 30:00
A Continental Uniform is a story of a great American patriot and hero who through personal grievances and frustrations…
Apr 14, 1937 · 30:15
Dupont presents songs of that colourful period in American history the “gay” 90’s. (1890’s!) The songs of no other…
Apr 14, 1941 · 11:35
The story of General James Oglethorpe, the founder of the colony of Georgia. Our story begins in London, early in the…
Apr 14, 1947 · 29:17
The story of Amedeo Obici, the found of Planter's Peanuts. Amedeo was unable to speak English, and when he sailed…
Apr 15, 1936 · 30:01
As the American cavalcade passes in review we realize again the tremendous part played by the railroads in the building…
Apr 15, 1946 · 28:50
In Washington, in the Spring of 1946, the President of the United States threw out the first ball to inaugurate the…
Apr 15, 1952 · 26:04
Set in the time shortly after the beginning of the American Civil War this is the story Thaddeus Lowe the young…
Apr 16, 1940 · 29:50
This is the story of the great American frontiers man Daniel Boone. When america moved west Daniel Boone led America.…
Apr 17, 1939 · 29:02
This is the story of Patrick Henry who rose to fame from the obscurity of failure and became one of the unchallenged…
Apr 17, 1944 · 29:33
Thomas Jefferson was an original author of the Declaration of Independence, and the third U.S. President. In…
Apr 17, 1951 · 25:44
Commodore David Porter was a U.S. naval officer who won a formidable reputation as the commander of the frigate Essex,…
Apr 18, 1949 · 29:24
After having a dream about a visit from Uncle Sam himself, a slick but crooked politician, John Gaminski, decides to…
Apr 18, 1950 · 26:35
The courageous story of Rose Knox, who served for forty years as president of the Knox Gelatine Company. The story…
Apr 19, 1943 · 29:24
The story begins in Berlin in 1933, and is the story of Martin Niemöller. The Nazi's needed the prominent Protestant…
Apr 19, 1948 · 22:40
In this story Dupont pays tribute to an American of many attainments Mr Oliver Wendell Holmes (March 8, 1841 – March 6,…
Apr 2, 1940 · 30:03
This is the story of Benedict Arnold who twice saved and then once betrayed his country. Many historians now believe…
Apr 20, 1938 · 30:55
The Dupont Cavalcade presents a story dealing with an organization that has contributed greatly to American…
Apr 20, 1942 · 29:30
"These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink…
Apr 21, 1937 · 30:00
Among America’s well known men are many who came from Europe to try their fortunes and make their homes in this land of…
Apr 21, 1941 · 29:14
Commemorating the 75th anniversary of the founding of the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,…
Apr 21, 1947 · 29:25
In the year 1800 the dread scourge smallpox swept through villages towns and cities in epidemics. Whole populations ran…
Apr 22, 1936 · 30:05
In the Cavalcade of America the instinct for self-preservation finds expression in the slogan “safety first” or as Poor…
Apr 22, 1946 · 28:11
In 1943, two of the most intellectual young men in Uncle Sam's army collaborated for the magazine, 'Yank', on a highly…
Apr 22, 1952 · 26:06
The Yankee and the Scales set in 1830 is the story of a dramatic challenge of inventor Thaddeus Fairbank's life and his…
Apr 23, 1940 · 28:25
Today we look back upon the life of a courageous, gentle and loveable character. A man who throughout his life and…
Apr 24, 1939 · 29:40
This story was written to celebrate the 100th birthday in the spring of 1939 of our national sport, Baseball. It tells…
Apr 24, 1944 · 27:44
Tonight brings you a story of victory out of a long and unceasing war - the war of the scientists against the forces of…
Apr 24, 1951 · 26:40
This is the story of Abigail Scott Dunaway, who fought for women's suffrage in the Pacific Northwest.
Apr 25, 1949 · 26:53
The tale begins in Paris 1794, in the wake of the Revolutionary terror, where we find the American ambassador to…
Apr 25, 1950 · 26:40
This is the story of what happens when a down to earth construction engineer William Mahone, gets himself tied up with…
Apr 26, 1943 · 30:00
Starring John Hall as Private Jefferson Smith Soldiers In High Boots is based on the exploits of paratroopers the…
Apr 26, 1948 · 27:03
The story of General Robert E. Lee after the end of the Civil War, and of his high ideals at Washington College at…
Apr 27, 1938 · 30:51
The Dupont Cavalcade tells the story of an American girl who astonished the world with her discoveries through a…
Apr 28, 1937 · 30:31
On the 30th April 1789 George Washington was inaugurated as the first president of the United States. Every schoolboy…
Apr 28, 1941 · 27:59
The Heart And The Fountain is the story of Margaret Fuller a woman of astonishing genius in American journalism. The…
Apr 28, 1947 · 29:10
After her husband is killed, pioneer Ann Robertson chooses to teach the children at Fort Caswell how to read and write,…
Apr 29, 1936 · 30:16
The stories you will, hear transport you from the year 1738 to 1936 and this wide gap of the years serves to illustrate…
Apr 29, 1946 · 27:24
There weren't enough drugs in the world to cure Bob's disease. It wasn't a disease of the body, well not at first. It…
Apr 29, 1952 · 29:25
This is the story of Elisha Graves Otis and his Otis safety elevator with a device that prevents his elevator falling…
Apr 3, 1939 · 28:30
This story takes the characteristic American traits of family devotion and the determination to succeed against odds…
Apr 3, 1944 · 29:30
Tonight's Cavalcade tells the unusual story of an ambulance driver in Africa with the American Field Service. Many…
Apr 3, 1951 · 24:44
This is the story of Christopher Latham Sholes who invented the typewriter in 1868 while working on a paging machine…
Apr 30, 1940 · 26:50
Thomas Paine was an English-American political activist, author, political theorist and revolutionary. He was the…
Apr 30, 1945 · 29:32
The Philippines Never Surrendered is the story of guerrilla warfare against the Japanese on the island of Mindanao.…
Apr 30, 1945 · 29:02
In the Saturday Evening Post, on 24th February 1945, a man called Edward Kuder first told his story of guerrilla…
Apr 4, 1949 · 28:08
Irene Dunne portrays the character Mamma which she made famous in the motion picture I Remember Mama in this Cavalcade…
Apr 4, 1950 · 26:51
In an hour of danger, Dr Hunter McGuire, a surgeon in the Confederate Army of Stonewall Jackson, made a fateful…
Apr 5, 1943 · 29:57
The Cavalcade of America sponsored by Dupont brings you a story called Submarine Astern starring Ray Milland and…
Apr 5, 1948 · 30:05
The story of how Rebecca Luken became the first woman to run an iron mill, and her vision of the future for "beautiful"…
Apr 6, 1938 · 30:46
The Dupont Cavalcade salutes a woman of spirit and courage, Hepsabeth Merrick the matriarch of the famous Merrick…
Apr 7, 1937 · 30:43
The Dupont, Cavalcade pays tribute to another gallant American pioneer, a man whose stubborn tenacity of purpose…
Apr 7, 1941 · 29:09
An original radio play about John Keats tragic life, especially written for the Cavalcade of America. Our story begins…
Apr 7, 1947 · 29:27
Heavy or smooth, the old whalers ran the oceans with their spread of canvas, their gallant crews and captains who nosed…
Apr 8, 1936 · 30:14
Even as a young country just beginning to resettle America became known as a land of opportunity. Thousands of men have…
Apr 8, 1946 · 28:56
The Bolton and Leopold Circus, one of the dozens of circus companies who have cris-crossed America for many a decade.…
Apr 8, 1952 · 25:29
This is the story of Air Force flight nurse Captain Jolita Bonham whose job was air evacuation duty in Korea. She did…
Apr 9, 1940 · 29:33
Sometimes the history of people is written in their music. Not so much in the works of great composers, but in the…
Apr 9, 1945
Aug 10, 1942 · 26:36
Sitting in her white framed house in Fredericksburg, serene in the knowledge that her mission in life has been…
Aug 11, 1937 · 30:05
The Dupont Cavalcade of Music presents compositions of a well-known contributor to America’s lighter music. Don…
Aug 11, 1941 · 58:02
Drama based on the 1940 novel by Thornwell Jacobs set in Charleston during the civil war in the 1860's. The longer the…
Aug 14, 1944 · 29:39
Cavalcade of America turns the spotlight on an aspect of American life in the summer of 1944. At present our concern is…
Aug 16, 1943 · 30:22
The Major And The Mules is a true story and an original comedy by Robert Tollman of the turning point in the battle for…
Aug 18, 1941 · 29:24
From the prairies of our nation from the Illinois farmlands came Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas, two men across…
Aug 18, 1947 · 29:03
It is the year 1826, and Peter Cooper, the industrialist, from New York, has just been thrown out of the inn he was…
Aug 2, 1943 · 25:28
The Cavalcade of America presents Dean Jagger in the role of Captain Armand L. Montverde in an authentic documentary…
Aug 21, 1944 · 29:38
Today's Cavalcade was written by Arthur Miller from factual reports of the part played by dogs in the war. Only today,…
Aug 23, 1943 · 28:07
There is as you know, a mineral dug out of the earth that men call coal. Let us visualize a lump of coal. Regard its…
Aug 24, 1942 · 28:44
The Giant In The Meadow tells the story of the first of all micro hunters. Like many pioneers Theobold Smith is not so…
Aug 25, 1937 · 30:01
Arthur Schwartz was the writer of the musical score of the 1937 music romance called Virginia and now you can hear Don…
Aug 25, 1941 · 29:19
Among the traditions of America's westward expansion is the memory of an Indian maiden Sacajawea, Her simple faith in…
Aug 25, 1947 · 26:57
In Rockford, Illinois, in the year 1867, there was a game called baseball. Not the baseball of turnstiles, clicking to…
Aug 26, 1936 · 30:09
“America has always been a dancing nation from the days when the old fiddle and the concertina played for the…
Aug 26, 1946 · 29:11
America means skyscrapers and haystacks, home sweet home and the Basin Street blues, the glare of the blast furnace…
Aug 26, 1952 · 28:30
July 9th 1776 was a day Sally Townsend would never forget. The Declaration of Independence was being read for the first…
Aug 27, 1945 · 27:05
It's a warm, lazy, spring morning in the southern university town. Harold Moffat, professor of geology at the…
Aug 27, 1945 · 27:00
This Cavalcade drama tells of a fascinating secret of World War II, a dangerous adventure undertaken by a civilian. It…
Aug 28, 1944 · 29:46
In Arlington National Cemetery there is a marble shaft on which these words are written. "Oliver Wendell Holmes,…
Aug 29, 1950 · 24:26
Basil Rathbone plays the part of John Adams, attorney for the defence in one of the most famous murder trials in…
Aug 3, 1942 · 31:51
This classic story of exile was suggested by Nathaniel Hawthorne to American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow who wrote…
Aug 30, 1943 · 29:13
Tonight we tell the story of an American boy, one of thousands serving in the very newest arm of the United States…
Aug 30, 1949 · 29:09
Cavalcade of America is back for its fifteenth year on the air, and the opening show is the story of Hiram Sibley, and…
Aug 31, 1942 · 31:52
A Prophet is not without honor save in his own country, so goes the ancient saying. Here in our own America in the 20th…
Aug 4, 1937 · 30:10
Rudolph Friml has composed the music for many a successful operetta including The Vagabond King>/I> and you will hear…
Aug 4, 1941 · 29:22
The most miraculous sound in the world, is the cry of a newborn child.It's a lusty cry signifying health. For babies…
Aug 5, 1936 · 29:50
Arthur Prior with his famous band is here again continuing the summer music series Cavalcade of America sponsored by…
Aug 7, 1944 · 29:32
The Dupont Company presents the radio adaptation by Milton Wain of Harry Brown's book A Walk in the Sun. The infantry…
Aug 9, 1943 · 30:18
The Cavalcade of America presents Shortcut To Tokyo adapted by Isabelle Layton from Corey Ford’s bestseller of the same…
Dec 1, 1937 · 29:28
From the time of the first printing press in 1450 until late in the 19th century all type was set by hand. The…
Dec 1, 1941 · 29:06
Irene Dunn reprises her role of Sabra Cravat in the recreation of the famous Oklahoma land rush of the late 1880s. When…
Dec 1, 1947 · 25:59
It is three two years since John came back from the war after losing an arm. Since then he has been teaching geology…
Dec 10, 1945 · 28:40
Beginning in 1873 when President Grant was in the Whitehouse and steamboats flourished on the Mississippi this is the…
Dec 11, 1935 · 30:08
Most Americans are familiar with the names of those early American explorers Lewis and Clarke who are two of the…
Dec 11, 1940 · 29:00
This is the story of John Brown, the strange zealot who stalked the land in the cause of abolition. John Brown is a…
Dec 11, 1944 · 29:29
Tonight's Cavalcade tells the story of the greatest battle humanity has ever fought - the fight against pain. Pain has…
Dec 11, 1951 · 27:34
Did you know that at one time in the history of the United States, shortly after the Revolution, there was a state in…
Dec 12, 1938 · 30:00
Cavalcade takes you back to the year 1647 the scene a village on the tip end of Manhattan Island, a disorderly…
Dec 12, 1950 · 28:53
Ulysses In Love was written by Arthur Errant and was suggested by the book Captain Sam Grant by Lloyd Lewis. It begins…
Dec 13, 1943 · 29:25
In this moving romantic war time drama Jennifer Prescott is a chorus girl but the breaks don't happen like in the…
Dec 13, 1948 · 26:51
Relive some of the American theater's warmest, happiest moments as Cavalcade brings you a radio dramatization of…
Dec 13, 1949 · 29:32
This is a true sea story, which occurred in 1820. It is a deep-sea tale about superstitious sailors and ghost ships.…
Dec 14, 1942 · 31:14
Cavalcade brings you the story of Daniel Webster the greatest speaker America has ever produced. One of the greatest…
Dec 15, 1937 · 29:28
In the lives of certain great men, we have the proof that in a losing fight, there may be glory never achieved in…
Dec 15, 1941 · 30:00
In the week of December 15th 1941 America was celebrating its 150th anniversary of its charter of human liberties, the…
Dec 15, 1947 · 29:10
The Day They Gave Babies Away is a Christmas story for the Holiday Season. It is a true story, which happened to a…
Dec 15, 1947 · 29:31
This is a true story, which happened to a small boy called Robbie. His father was dead and he lived with his mother,…
Dec 16, 1946 · 29:01
Probably the only parents who do not regard their little children as blessings, are the parents of geniuses. A genius…
Dec 16, 1952 · 26:43
Barbed WireThis is a very moving story.
Dec 17, 1945 · 29:16
Philadelphia, in the year 1789 is the largest, most comfortable and cultured city in the newly born United States of…
Dec 18, 1935 · 30:14
The Cavalcade Orchestra sets the stage for the first story with an overture composed especially for the occasion. It…
Dec 18, 1940 · 32:02
One of the most inspiring chapters in the western hemisphere is the long peace that has existed between the United…
Dec 18, 1944 · 29:32
Tonight's Cavalcade brings you the story of the incredible Elizabeth Blackwell, a woman who dared to fight against the…
Dec 18, 1951 · 29:13
A delightful Christmas episode from the Cavalcade of America, with the DuPont Chorus of 115 men and women, singing a…
Dec 19, 1938 · 29:36
The Cavalcade of America brings you the story of popular cowboy writer and raconteur Will Rogers who charmed a nation…
Dec 19, 1950 · 29:33
As is the custom during the Christmas season Cavalcade presents The DuPont Chorus. This yuletide program comes to you…
Dec 2, 1936 · 29:54
The Seeing Eye is a school in Morris Town New Jersey where German Shepherd dogs are educated as guides for the blind…
Dec 2, 1946 · 29:27
When men fight for the principle they believe in they are often fighting too for the women they love. This Cavalcade…
Dec 20, 1943 · 29:59
Stephen Vincent Benet's modern miracle play was specially written for Cavalcade in 1942 and was repeated again with…
Dec 21, 1942 · 29:42
Written by the esteemed Stephen Vincent Benet this is the story of Christmas brought up to date for our time - that is…
Dec 22, 1937 · 29:50
Dupont’s Cavalcade of America presents dramatic incidents in the life of one of New England’s most illustrious men the…
Dec 22, 1941 · 28:52
This is a simple moving story of the beliefs of a devout people. It is a story above the temporary madness that…
Dec 22, 1947 · 29:36
Bill Hamilton opens the show, speaking from the stage of the Playhouse in Wilmington, Delaware, where The DuPont…
Dec 23, 1936 · 30:09
The Cavalcade of America pays tribute to one of the most beloved women of all time, Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, a…
Dec 23, 1946 · 28:24
The Du Pont Company present a program of Christmas carols sung by the Du Pont Chorus. It's the first of many annual…
Dec 23, 1952 · 29:15
In this heartwarming Christmas special from 1952 the DuPont Chorus, under the direction of Frank Clark, delivers a…
Dec 24, 1945 · 29:40
This first peace time Christmas Eve the Cavalcade of America takes you on an imaginary train ride swooping all over the…
Dec 25, 1935 · 30:08
It is 1874 in New York City and in a small shabby tenement room beside a woman’s be kneels Mrs Etta Wheeler a voluntary…
Dec 25, 1940 · 29:38
This is a simple moving story of the beliefs of a devout people. It is a story above the temporary madness that…
Dec 25, 1944 · 29:47
On a small island in the lonely distances of the Pacific. An island you never knew before existed, which you would find…
Dec 25, 1951 · 29:34
A special Christmas story - a true story - about a twelve year old boy who is forced to find homes for his brothers and…
Dec 26, 1938 · 29:38
Cavalcade present an American fairytale, a legend which came down out of our own north woods out of lumber camps. It is…
Dec 26, 1950 · 26:41
Today's Cavalcade begins in 1863 during the war between the States. In a confederate military hospital in Georgia, a…
Dec 27, 1943 · 30:27
U-Boat Prisoner is the thrilling story of a merchant seaman rescued by the very submarine, which had torpedoed his ship…
Dec 27, 1948 · 27:00
This is a story set in romantic old Carolina. In the year 1744 a girl named Eliza Lucas is trying to start an Indigo…
Dec 28, 1942 · 31:53
Eagles Nest is a story made into a radio play by Arthur Miller. It is about Guiseppe Garibaldi (1807-1882), the great…
Dec 29, 1941 · 30:03
This is the story of a woman whose amazingly modern career for 1812 burst like a bombshell over the nation's capital in…
Dec 29, 1947 · 29:30
In a crude long house, dark except for a leaping fire in the middle, a mighty Indian chieftain sits in splendor amongst…
Dec 3, 1945 · 29:11
Radar. The magic eye that saw ships, planes and submarines long before the human eye could detect their presence, was a…
Dec 30, 1936 · 30:27
The facts of the story of the Charter Oak are clouded in legend. New England was colonized by who put self-government…
Dec 30, 1946 · 29:44
Rain Fakers is a story about the weather in which a rain-maker tangles with a scientist from the weather bureau. Now,…
Dec 30, 1952 · 28:17
This is the true story of Sergeant Billie G Beach, who, when flying high over Korea in a B-29, along the infamous strip…
Dec 31, 1945 · 29:59
Every year in August there's a cowboy reunion at Dalhart Texas where old hands of the biggest ranch America ever knew…
Dec 4, 1935 · 30:05
There are many heroes who played their part in making America a better place to live in, who did their work for…
Dec 4, 1940 · 29:24
Alexander Woollcott as the writer and narrator gives us a biography of a masterpiece telling its story with the help of…
Dec 4, 1944 · 28:52
This Cavalcade play deals with a branch of the American Red Cross, which helps American forces overseas to find…
Dec 4, 1951 · 26:33
Whilst flying over on a reconnaissance mission, two United Nations pilots spot an abandoned MIG-15 in shallow waters…
Dec 5, 1938 · 27:59
Knute Rockne was an American football player and coach. He is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in college…
Dec 5, 1950 · 29:36
The Grand Design begins in the year 1791. Charles Boyer stars in the role of Major Pierre Charles Laufont a Parisian by…
Dec 5, 1950 · 28:54
The Grand Design begins in the year 1791. Charles Boyer stars in the role of Major Pierre Charles Laufont a Parisian by…
Dec 6, 1943 · 30:02
With Brian Donlevy as it’s star Cavalcade tells the story of one day in the life of a Navy Doctor. His official title…
Dec 6, 1948 · 22:29
This is the story of a man with many attainments. He was a poet, scientist, physician and humorist to name just a few.…
Dec 8, 1937 · 30:00
December 7th 1937 was the 150th anniversary of the first state to ratify the constitution of the United States.…
Dec 8, 1941 · 27:58
This is a radio adaptation of the Pulitzer prize winning drama of brilliant young intern in modern (1941) medicine, one…
Dec 8, 1947 · 26:50
A dramatized incident in the life of Maria Mitchell, the famous woman astronomer from Vassar. In 1847, she discovered a…
Dec 9, 1936 · 29:49
This is the story of a devoted Red Cross worker Miss Emily Bissell and her idea for Christmas seals (stamps) and the…
Dec 9, 1946 · 28:45
Our story today is about a man who couldn't keep his feet on the ground. John Joseph Montgomery had the urge to fly -…
Dec 9, 1952 · 26:13
The story of the life of Paul Revere, an American silversmith, engraver, early industrialist, and Patriot in the…
Feb 1, 1943 · 29:10
As all the world knows, on November 7th 1942, the stars and stripes were raised over the cities of North Africa - but…
Feb 10, 1937 · 29:08
The Cavalcade of America brings you the story of Peter Cooper, industrialist, philanthropist and educator. Cooper found…
Feb 10, 1947 · 29:07
This is the dramatic story of young Thomas Alva Edison whose genius lights the world today. This story is about a man…
Feb 10, 1953 · 30:00
This is a story that happened to a man named Edward Ellsberg (November 21, 1891 - January 24, 1983) a Captain in the…
Feb 11, 1946 · 29:11
It is the 18th November 1863, and for two days, hundreds of strangers have been coming into a Pennsylvania town. Much…
Feb 12, 1936 · 30:33
It seems particularly appropriate that this broadcast of the Cavalcade of America presented by Dupont should happen to…
Feb 12, 1941 · 26:12
Abraham Lincoln - The War Years is an original radio play written specially for the Cavalcade of America by Robert E.…
Feb 12, 1945 · 29:07
On the 136th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln's birth (February 12, 1809), this is a story about the awkward young man…
Feb 12, 1952 · 26:03
4th March 1865 in Washington DC on the eve of the victory of the war between the states as Abraham Lincoln addresses…
Feb 13, 1939 · 29:30
Of the many distinguished immigrants who have come to America, none contributed so much that was vital and necessary in…
Feb 13, 1940 · 29:24
This story looks back to one man who above all others epitomises the American character. An original radio play for…
Feb 13, 1951 · 25:49
Today the Cavalcade of America brings you the story of something dreamed of through the ages, sought after for…
Feb 14, 1944 · 29:21
Assisted by Tony Romano and his indispensable guitar and with June Lockhart as a pilot sweetheart Francis Langford…
Feb 14, 1950 · 26:32
When Dave Eaves came home from the Navy to his hometown Buchanan in Georgia he had a dream to grow cotton on his land.…
Feb 15, 1943 · 27:27
This is a story pertinent to the time, during World War II, of a midwestern physician faced with problem of deciding…
Feb 16, 1938 · 30:17
The Dupont Cavalcade tells of the annexation of one of the largest areas of American territory, the story of the…
Feb 16, 1942 · 29:07
The story today is a love story. It's about three people, Kitty, Alan and Gerald. The story of a woman who chooses her…
Feb 16, 1948 · 26:47
Today's Cavalcade is about a killer on the loose - and it's not the kind of killer you read about in detective stories.…
Feb 17, 1937 · 29:32
Cavalcade of America presented by Dupont brings you a story telling how a courageous clergyman Cotton Mather and a…
Feb 17, 1947 · 28:56
This story is about Gustaf F. Marsh who wanted to build a trail up the east slope of Mount Whitney, the highest…
Feb 17, 1953 · 26:08
History in part is a record of military action and at the heart of such action is the flashing daring technique of the…
Feb 18, 1946 · 29:04
Major George Washington arrives back to report to Governor Dunwoody about his last mission, to deliver a message from…
Feb 19, 1936 · 30:27
This story deals with one of the commonest conveniences that our civilization knows, the bridge. As we pass swiftly…
Feb 19, 1941 · 28:36
This is the story of George Washington's momentous journey that ended in New York with his inauguration as America's…
Feb 19, 1945 · 29:30
This is a story of crisis, of twenty four critical hours, which turned out to be one of the most crucial days in…
Feb 19, 1952 · 25:46
Many tongues and many pens have attempted to describe the character of the great American whose birthday is celebrated…
Feb 2, 1938 · 29:37
This is the story of Francis Scott Key and how he composed the Star Spangled Banner our national anthem, a tune that…
Feb 2, 1942 · 28:20
This is a story set in the wartimes of 1942. In it you will meet a little know but vastly important race of men, the…
Feb 2, 1948 · 29:16
Miss Joanna Tyckman is a teacher, a grammar school teacher, teaching 7B in a neighborhood school. She is sixty, with…
Feb 20, 1939 · 29:31
Kit was born in Madison, Kentucky on Christmas eve in 1809, while he was still a baby his parents loaded their…
Feb 20, 1940 · 28:40
Ethel Barrymore stars as Anne Royall the little old woman who lived in Andrew Jackson’s day and risked everything she…
Feb 20, 1951 · 26:42
During the American Revolution, Mary Murray became known in folklore as the Quaker woman who in 1776, delayed British…
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