
Gorgas and the Panama Canal
Broadcast: October 24, 1954
Starring:
William Redfield,
Jane Webb,
Virginia Payne,
Cameron Andrews ,
Ken Williams,
Roy Shield,
Edward King,
William Griffis,
Earl Hamner,
Joe Boland,
Frank Belgrano,
Wade Arnold
Added: Jan 24 2016
Men had dreamed of it for centuries - the passageway from the Gulf of Panama to the Caribbean Sea. The dream had lived in the United States even more so. Everybody agreed that such a canal was necessary to our defense, as well as a good thing for trade. In 1904, under President Theodore Roosevelt, arrangements were completed - and as those who worked on the canal put it, the dirt began to fly!