History Detectives: Cromwell Dixon, Bartlett Sketchbook, Duke Ellington Plates
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, Today on NET (29.1)
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Cromwell Dixon, Bartlett Sketchbook, Duke Ellington Plates
Season 8, Episode 5
The story of one of America's first barnstormers, pilot Cromwell Dixon, who died at age 19 when his airplane crashed. Also: whether a notebook that includes illustrations of the first U.S.-Mexico border survey belonged to John Russell Bartlett; if metal plates recovered from a Dumpster may have been the first to print the sheet music for the Duke Ellington classic "Take the A Train."
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2010
English
1080i
Stereo
History
Collectibles
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