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Title Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklin's Bones

Publication Info. [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.

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Description 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 56 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Playing Time Playing time: 54 min.
Note In Process Record.
Title from title frames.
Performer Features: Jay O. Sanders
Event Originally produced by PBS in 2014.
Summary When skeletal remains of at least 10 people, including several infants, turned up in the basement of Benjamin Franklin's British residence, people wondered if the Founding Father might have had a much darker side, as the bones had been meticulously cut and drilled. Franklin was aware of the bodies in his basement, but they weren't the victims of violent acts. Rather, they were used for the purposes of an illegal anatomy school that helped shaped modern medicine.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Indexed Term Documentaries
History - Modern
North American Studies
Added Author Thomas-Couth, Kate, filmmaker
Kanopy (Firm)
Music No. 1159472 Kanopy