Two On Top of the World
Broadcast: April 24, 1955
Starring:
Norman Rose,
John Larkin,
Anne Seymour,
Leon Janney,
John McGovern,
Richard Hamilton,
Edwin Jerome,
Ronald Long ,
William Welch,
Roy Shield,
Daniel Sutter,
Bruce Henderson
Added: Apr 10 2016
Matthew Alexander Henson was thirteen years old and an orphan when he ran away to Baltimore. The year was 1879 and nobody paid any attention to a homeless little colored boy, wandering along the pier - nobody that is - except a weather beaten sea captain with smiling eyes and a gruff voice. His name was Captain Jonas Childs and he was the skipper of a merchant ship named Katie Hines. He took Henson under his wing giving him work as a cabin boy on the ship, treating him like a son and under his tutelage Henson became an able-bodied seaman.