HISTORY DETECTIVES

Monday, July 27 at 9 p.m.

John Ott believes he may have a piece of Amelia Earhart’s airplane, the missing Lockheed L-10E Electra in which she made her ill-fated around-the-world attempt. Host Elyse Luray tests the shape and the metal of the fragment and checks the story against historic records. In Oregon, a man inherited what looked to be a U.S. presidential pardon signed by Millard Fillmore in 1851. Fillmore’s pardon saved a Native American man's life; why? And why did this case about an unknown Native American matter to a U.S. President? In Colorado, a couple in a new home immediately recognizes the supports as railroad car rods. Was their home made from a boxcar? The search for answers takes viewers on an excursion from the scarcity of the Great Depression to the resourcefulness of World War II.

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