History's Lost and Found --- The History Channel
Go see this show now. Find a TV Guide or the equivalent and look for
its listing. Then, watch the damn thing. Last, hug your tv for giving
you such a wonderful show.
This show is one of the coolest and best shows to come from one of my
favorite networks. Today, The History Channel is showing an "InSearch
of..." marathon and then, such shows as "The Roman War Machine" and
"Bloody Tower Over London".
Back to "History's Lost and Found". The title doesn't exactly explain
the show's premise. It's more like, there's a little known part of
history that is moved. Not always lost and found.
This show can be just plain silly sometimes. It has little "cut out"
style animation that is quite funny. You just have to see it.
In the episode I'm writing about, there were seven segments in one
hour.
The first segment was about the stairs in the U.S Embassy in Saigan
that were used to evacuate the last of the U.S troops from the Vietnam
War. Hours after the last troops were gone, the NVA took over the building. Years later, Former President Ford requested
that the stairs be taken from the now abandoned building. They were
shipped in one piece to Ford's Museum in Michigan.
The next segment showed perfectly what this show can do. It actually
made Grover Cleveland look interesting. The segment was about a tumor
in Cleveland that developed from his years of drinking and smoking. He
wanted to keep it a secret so the surgery was performed on a boat in
the Atlantic.
After Cleveland's death, the truth was exposed and the tumor was moved
to a Philadelphia.
The last segment was about missing identity. In the early thirties, I
believe, there was a tent fire in a circus in New Haven, Connecticut.
It happened in an insane way. To prevent rain from getting the patrons
wet while inside the tent, it was waterproofed with gasoline!! A small
fre started and, in a few minutes, the whole tent was ablaze. Hundreds
of people were killed.
A few people (six) were not identified. One of them, a young girl,
caught the interest of the state. Many attempts to name her were
failed. She remained "Miss 1565" for 50 or so years. She was finally
named by an investigator who had heard stories of her aas a child.
The four other segments were about things that were interesting, but
just not as interesting as the others. There was a segment about
"Swifty" Lazar's glasses. "Swifty" was a major Hollywood player who was
famous for his large, black glasses. The Lindbergh baby segment was
baout the letters between the kidnapper and Lindbergh. Another segment
was about a timekeeper that first measured longitude.
The sixth segment was about a dog made of pennies.
Watch this show.
---
Nick Carpenter
9.11.1999
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