"A stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their...

The Geneva Summit brings Dwight D. Eisenhower together with representatives of Britain, France, and the Soviet Union in an effort to reduce international tensions. Adlai Stevenson makes another presidential bid, covered in this episode of Year by Year.

"Presidential historian Mark K. Updegrove, head of the LBJ Foundation, offers an ... account of John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative tenure in the White House"--

Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1950s, including the effects of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, television, music, art, science, and technology.

Nike missile test (part two)

Barnet ventilator replaces Iron Lung for polio victims

Atomic test

Thunderbird missile launch (British)

German newsreel on the making of newsreels.

Khrushchev thanking Nixon