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Educational Programming

True Whispers: Navajo Code Talkers

When it airs: Overnight schedule  

Social Studies; Grades 9-12. 60 minutes
This program tells the stories of the young Navajo men recruited from harsh government boarding schools into the Marines during World War II. From 1942-1945, the Code Talkers devised an unbreakable code in their native language and transmitted vital messages in the midst of combat against the Japanese.

Due to the subject matter, this program contains graphic archival footage of WWII.