Episodes cast for
"Profiles in Courage" (1964) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1
Year: 1964 | 1965

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Oscar W. Underwood

8 November 1964

Season 1, Episode 2: Mary S. McDowell

15 November 1964

Season 1, Episode 3: Thomas Hart Benton

29 November 1964

Season 1, Episode 4: Richard T. Ely

6 December 1964

Season 1, Episode 5: Sam Houston

13 December 1964

Season 1, Episode 6: Governor John M. Slaton

20 December 1964
The story of Gov. John Slaton of Georgia, who in the early 1900s pardoned Leo Frank, who had been convicted of and sentenced to death for raping and murdering a young girl. Slaton believed that Frank, who was Jewish, had been convicted not on the evidence but because of rampant anti-Semitism on the part of the prosecution and the jury. Slaton's decision outraged the public, but as it turned out, he was right--several years later it was revealed that it wasn't Frank who committed the murder but a local handyman.

Season 1, Episode 7: John Adams

27 December 1964

Season 1, Episode 8: Robert A. Taft

3 January 1965

Season 1, Episode 9: Anne Hutchinson

10 January 1965

Season 1, Episode 10: General Alexander William Doniphan

17 January 1965

Season 1, Episode 11: John Peter Altgeld

24 January 1965

Season 1, Episode 12: Frederick Douglass

31 January 1965
The story of Frederick Douglass, an escaped slave who fled to the North in the days before the Civil War. Douglass decided to use his writing and oratorical skills to lead the fight to abolish slavery, a risky move because the Fugitive Slave Act allowed an escaped slave to be captured anywhere in the US and returned to his owners in the South.

Season 1, Episode 13: Daniel Webster

7 February 1965

Season 1, Episode 14: Woodrow Wilson

14 February 1965

Season 1, Episode 15: Prudence Crandall

21 February 1965

Season 1, Episode 16: Andrew Johnson

28 February 1965

Season 1, Episode 17: Hamilton Fish

7 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 18: Charles Evans Hughes

14 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 19: Edmund G. Ross

21 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 20: George W. Norris

28 March 1965

Season 1, Episode 21: Grover Cleveland

4 April 1965

Season 1, Episode 22: John Quincy Adams

11 April 1965

Season 1, Episode 23: John Marshall

18 April 1965

Season 1, Episode 24: Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey

25 April 1965
The true story of Judge Ben B. Lindsey, a judge in Denver, Colorado, who led the fight in the early 1900s for a separate judicial system for teenage offenders, who at the time were being sent to adult prison with hardened convicts.

Season 1, Episode 25: George Mason

2 May 1965

Season 1, Episode 26: Thomas Corwin

9 May 1965
The story of U.S. Senator Thomas Corwin, a rising star in the Whig party in the 1840s who was one of the few political leaders to oppose the US-Mexican War initiated by the administration of President James Polk.