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History Detectives | Season 8, Episode 4 | PBS

Duration: 55:10 (Full Program)
Program: History Detectives #804
Broadcast Date: Jul. 12, 2010

Barton Letter: Why did Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, write a letter about a Civil War soldier? Andrew Jackson's Mouth: The reunification of two halves of a vandalized sculpture of President Andrew Jackson? Spybook: Does a Pennsylvania man have a notebook that once belonged to a World War I spy?

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