Tuesday, January 3, 2023 - From preventing torture, to outing homosexuals, the polygraph machine has a storied history. That history is explored in “The Lie Detector,” the latest episode of American Experience. It premieres tonight, January 3rd. We visit with filmmaker Rob Rapley about this “uniquely American” phenomenon. ~~~ Chuck Lura shares a Natural North Dakota essay on snow and snowflakes. ~~~ News director visits with outgoing Lt. Gov. Brent Sanford.
American Experience The Lie DetectorPremieres Tuesday, January 3, 2023, on PBS and Streaming on PBS.org The Story of the Polygraph, the Uniquely American Device Whose Bright Promise Proved Tragic
The Lie Detector begins in the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations, researchers made a thrilling new
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