You Are There - Season 1 (1953)

Public Enemy Number One John Dillinger is captured by the Indiana state police after a bank robbery in Chicago.

Joan of Arc prepares for her imminent execution.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Alexander Hamilton is killed in a duel with US Vice President Aaron Burr.

The Boston dentist William Thomas Green Morton publicly demonstrates the use of anesthesia for the first time.

In Salem, Massachusetts, accused witches are sentenced to death.

Hernán Cortés and his conquistadors land in Mexico.

On February 24, 1868, US President Andrew Johnson is impeached by the House of Representatives for removing Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton from office.

Galileo Galilei is tried by the Inquisition and forced to recant his assertion that the Earth orbits the sun.

The task of drafting a declaration of independence that will express the prevailing sentiment of a politically diversified population faces the Continental Congress.

After Socrates is found guilty of corrupting his students, he is forced to commit suicide by ingesting the poison hemlock.

Adolf Hitler consolidates his power in Germany.

Dr. Walter Reed's research indicates that mosquitoes are carriers of yellow fever.

On February 23, 1836, the arrival of General Antonio López de Santa Anna's Army surprised the Texians and Tejanos and as the defenders saw it, the Alamo was the key to the defense of Texas.

The French artillery officer Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris, initiating a political scandal that rocks the Third Republic.

On June 15, 1215, King John of England is forced by rebellious barons to sign the Magna Carta..

Rudolf Hess escapes from Germany on May 10, 1941 and parachuted to safety in Scotland. He is convicted of war crimes at the Nuremberg Trials and imprisoned in Spandau Prison in West Berlin.

In 1780, Benedict Arnold was accused of the treasonous act of giving the plans of West Point, one of America's strongest forts to the British.

On March 6, 1836, Mexican troops attack and burn the Alamo Mission at San Antonio, Texas.