History Channel Documentaries

Year By Year: 1935 (1995x8)

: 15, 1995

It was 1935. Benny Goodman and the Big Band sound shared the waves with the Lone Ranger. FDR was getting the New Deal off the ground. A series of dramatic personal interest stories captured the public's imagination. The year of newsreels provided compelling coverage of the trial of Bruno Hauptmann in the Lindbergh baby kidnapping case. The assassination of Louisiana Governor Huey Long, and a nation in morning for favorite son Will Rogers killed in an aviation crash with aviator Wiley Post. This and more as Year By Year Presents: 1935.