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Cold War Roadshow Preview

Premiering November 18, 2014 on American Experience PBS. For twelve days in September 1959, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev traveled the United States from coast to coast, creating a media circus as hundreds of reporters followed his every move. Americans were fascinated by the communist leader and the trip served to ease Cold War tensions — if only for a short time.