Broadcast: 11th March 1936

Starring: Various

Added: Jul 26 2012

How greatly have simple human qualities helped make the America we know today and particularly the quality of perseverance. Countless stories may have been told of the part this quality played in our country’s growth. And for one of them let us turn back to New England in the year 1841.

A second story in this episode moves on to 1896 when began the curious series of events that started a more persistent, tenacious struggle towards the unaccomplished goal of flying. On an afternoon of this year we find Wilber Wright entering the family home in Dayton Ohio to talk to his brother Orville...