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Trailer | The Codebreaker | American Experience
The story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work to decode thousands of messages for the U.S. government would send infamous gangsters to prison in the 1920s and bring down a massive, near-invisible Nazi spy ring in WWII.
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Follow LBJ from rural Texas to his ascendancy to the presidency after the assassination of JFK.