Biography - Season 9 / Year 1996

Season 9 / Year 1996

Episodes

Carol Burnett: Just to Have a Laugh

Jeffrey Dahmer: The Monster Within

Carl Sagan: A Cosmic Celebrity

Sir Isaac Newton - The Gravity of Genius

Richard Pryor: Comic On The Edge

Gary Gilmore: A Fight to Die

The Boston Strangler

Alexander Graham Bell: Voice Of Invention

Stonewall Jackson

Dwight D. Eisenhower: Supreme Commander in Chief

Admiral Chester Nimitz: Thunder of the Pacific

Mark Twain: His Amazing Adventures

Adam & Eve: Lost Innocence

Samson and Delilah: Love and Betrayal

Mary of Nazareth: A Mother's Life

Amelia Earhart
Born: Amelia Mary Earhart on July 24, 1897; Disappeared July 2, 1937; Declared dead January 5, 1939, was an American aviation pioneer and writer. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic. She set many other records, was one of the first aviators to promote commercial air travel, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of "The Ninety-Nines", an organization for female pilots.

Abraham Lincoln: Preserving the Union
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John F. Kennedy: A Personal Story

Theodore Roosevelt: Roughrider to Rushmore

Richard Nixon: The Man and the President

Gypsy Rose Lee: Naked Ambition

James Brown: The Godfather of Soul

Mussolini: Italy's Nightmare

Joseph Stalin: Red Terror

Hatfields & McCoys: An American Feud

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Edward VIII: The Traitor King

Betty Boop: Queen of Cartoons

J. Pierpont Morgan: Emperor of Wall Street

The Astors: High Society

Tyrone Power: The Last Idol

Peter Lorre: The Master of Menace

Howard Stern: Radio Rebel

The Earp Brothers: Lawmen of the West

Buffalo Bill: Showman of the West

Thomas Edison: Father of Invention

Bud Abbott & Lou Costello: Abbott & Costello Meet Biography

Jerry Lewis: The Last American Clown

The Menendez Brothers: Sins of the Children

General Omar Bradley

Heidi Fleiss Hollywood Madam
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Geronimo: The Last Renegade
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