This is the first in a series of episodes looking back at the Influenza pandemic of 1918 and its lessons for modern times.
Historian Bill Sellers of the National History Academy joins Haley in this episode to discuss the outbreak at the Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri in the fall of 1918. Sellers has close family ties to the story. His great-grandfather was in charge of Wentworth when the outbreak began following a parade in town.
The episode begins with the obituary of a 17 year old cadet who fell ill and died from complications of the flu in December 1918.
