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Catalogue Number: 041654
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: History, Science
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2013
Running Time: 60
Closed Captions: Yes
Secrets of the Dead: Death on the Railroad
This item is only available for Canadian orders.Catalogue Number: 041654
Producer: PBS Video
Subject: History, Science
Language: English
Grade Level: 9 - 12, Post Secondary
Country Of Origin: United States
Copyright Year: 2013
Running Time: 60
Closed Captions: Yes
In 1832, 57 young men from Ireland boarded a ship to America, leaving behind an impoverished country in hopes of a better life. They arrived healthy and ready to work. Eight weeks later all 57 men were dead. Did they all die due to a cholera pandemic as was widely believed? Or, were some of them murdered?
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