Vietnam Diary, Bootlegger’s Notebook and a Hollywood Ledger

Wes searches for the family of a fallen North Vietnamese soldier.

Vietnam Diary, Bootlegger’s Notebook and a Hollywood Ledger History Detectives

Premiered October 01, 2012
Vietnam Diary, Bootlegger’s Notebook and a Hollywood Ledger

In this episode, can History Detectives return the diary of a fallen North Vietnamese soldier to that veteran’s family? Then, a notebook full of recipes for large volumes of liquor makes an Indiana man wonder if his rich uncle was a Prohibition-era bootlegger. And what can an old ledger tell us about how Hollywood treated Native American actors?

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History Detectives

America's top gumshoes are on the case to prove once again that an object found in an attic or backyard might be anything but ordinary. Exploring historical objects and the stories behind them, History Detectives crisscrosses the country delving into legends, folklore and personal histories to discover potentially extraordinary objects in everyday American homes.

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