Chucky with Benjamin Yeaten at the funeral for a colleague at an unknown location in Liberia.

Family Legacies: A Dictator's Son, A Holocaust Survivor's Father

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Johnny Dwyer profiles the American son of the infamous African dictator Charles Taylor. Goran Rosenberg discusses his father’s attempt to survive the aftermath of Auschwitz in a small industrial town in Sweden. Emmy Award-winning director Alexander Nanau talks about his film “Toto and his Sisters.” Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson joins us for Please Explain: The Cosmos! 

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