Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

Overview

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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Director

Ken Burns

Director

Cast

Tom Hanks

Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)

Keith David

Narrator (voice)

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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