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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

72 %|Oct 6, 2003|Documentary

In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

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Ken Burns
Director
Dayton Duncan
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Tom Hanks
Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
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Keith David
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Adam Arkin
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Philip Bosco
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John Cullum
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Amy Madigan
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Eli Wallach
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