Death on the Railroad

May 08, 2013 on PBS at 10:00 PM

Summary

An investigation into the 1832 deaths of 57 Irish laborers who were laying railroad tracks in Pennsylvania. Cholera was blamed at the time, but modern forensic science sheds light on what really happened.

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