Season 7, Episode 1 | History Detectives

History Detectives Season 7, Episode 1

Psychophone; War Dog Letter; Pancho Villa Watch Fob Details

Program: History Detectives

Episode: Season 7, Episode 1

Did Thomas Edison invent this machine to unlock the secrets of the dead? What went wrong on Cat Island? Was the owner of this watch fob witness to Francisco "Pancho" Villa's infamous 1916 raid?

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New Mexico , Thomas Edison , Pancho Villa , psychophone , World War II

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Duration: (54:50)
Premiere Date: 06/21/2009
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TV Rating: TV-PG

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Psychophone Interview
Gwen speaks to historian Paul Israel, of the Thomas A. Edison papers project at Rutgers University.

Cat Island Documents
View declassified Cat Island files from the National Archives in Washington, D.C. that reveal the details and extent of the war dog experiment.
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