CSPAN3 Reel America We Heard The Bells The Influenza Of 1918 July 13, 2024
In 1918, i lived in sequoyah county. In 1918, my family was living in south philadelphia. In 1918, we were living in el paso, texas. I was born and raised in baltimore. Narrator in bustling cities and remote villages in the United States and around the world, orphan children cry for their parents in 1918. People of all cultures struggled with the same terrible threat, and with it, in a matter of as 50s, as many million would be dead. In the United States, the death toll reached 675,000, five times the number of u. S. Soldiers killed in world war i. What was that deadly threat . [bell tolls] [b...