Train to NYC

Sergei Khrushchev's home video of his 1959 trip to the US with his father Nikita. More

Sergei Khrushchev documented his father's 1959 American visit from behind the lens of his camera. This silent film clip shows the towns and landscape as their train passes through en route to New York. Sergei later remarked, “It was some shock because when I look from the window from the train I found…that Americans mostly live like any other people.”

AIR DATE 11/18/14