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Frontline - Season 18 Episode 14 Jefferson's Blood
In "Jefferson's Blood," FRONTLINE correspondent Shelby Steele and producer Tom Lennon re-examine Jefferson's life, and piece together the little that can be known about Sally Hemings. Steele and Lennon also explore the repercussions of the Jefferson-Hemings relationship for the couple's modern-day descendants, many of whom are still attempting to find their place along America's blurred color line. "[Jefferson] spawned two lines of descendants--one legitimate, one not," Steele says in the documentary. "And this bastardized part of his family would be driven by a sense of incompleteness."
- Year: 2025
- Country: United States of America
- Genre: Documentary, News
- Studio: PBS
- Keyword: investigative journalism
- Director: David Fanning
- Cast: Will Lyman