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Episode Details: Telegrams from the Dead
Telegrams from the Dead
Series: American Experience
Season: Season 7
Episode Number: 5
Air Date:
Duration: 55 min
For 40 years, a new religion called spiritualism affected the nation as no other ever had. Abraham Lincoln, P.T. Barnum, Frederick Douglass, senators, and scientists argued over the discoveries of the spirit world as revealed through mediums. Congress debated whether to provide $40,000 to research the feasibility of using the new wireless technology to reach the other world. But by 1880, as one spectacular fraud after another was revealed, the movement began to fade.
Cast and Guests
Ellen Burstyn
Narrator (voice)Streaming Platforms for American Experience
