PROFILES IN COURAGE--THOMAS HART BENTON (1964)

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This episode is based on a chapter of the book by John F. Kennedy. In 1850 Senator THOMAS HART BENTON of Missouri hopes for California statehood. Knowing it will not be admitted as a slave state he fights Senator Calhoun's bill that would forbid Congress from voting against slavery in the Territories.

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