You are There. America Grows up

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Originally aired on television as CBS TV series.
Special features: digitally remastered from restored prints ; interactive menu.
Great Comstock silver strike -- Overthrow of the Tweed Ring.
Hosted by Walter Cronkite.
The great Comstock silver strike: October 29th, 1873. John Mackay and James Fair have invested close to $300,000 into the apparently worthless Comstock mine in the hopes of discovering silver. People are losing faith and increasingly suspicious of stock manipulation and fraud. Then they receive the big news.
The overthrow of the Tweed Ring: November 7th, 1871. New York citizens are fed up with the corruption of William Tweed who has gained political control through bribery and intimidation. New York Times editor Louis J. Jennings, Sheriff James O'Brien and cartoonist Thomas Nast begin a movement to rid the city of Tweed which proves to be successful on election day.
DVD; Dolby Digital; full screen.

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