Experiment at Monticello: Thomas Jefferson and Smallpox Vacc

Duration: 22

Year Published: 1953

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Uses dramatized incidents to show the role of President Jefferson in breaking down public superstition regarding the use of smallpox vaccine during the epidemic of 1801. Excerpts from the 1953 motion picture which was telecast in The Cavalcade of America series; adapted for educational use by Teaching Films Custodians in cooperation with the National Science Teachers Association.

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