Profiles in Courage is an American historical anthology series that was telecast weekly on NBC from November 8, 1964, to May 9, 1965 (Sundays, 6:30–7:30 p.m., Eastern and Pacific Time).

The series is based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning 1956 book Profiles in Courage by U.S. President John F. Kennedy, who had been assassinated the previous November.

Music for the opening and closing theme is arranged by Nelson Riddle, based on the Irish ballad The Boys of Wexford, home of Kennedy's ancestors.

Each episode ends with a recording of Kennedy's voice declaring that, "These stories of past courage can teach... they can offer hope and they can provide inspiration.

Emotions were running high and, before this year was to end, Mary S. McDowell, a Brooklyn schoolteacher would test her courage against the public pressures of the nation."

The colonials were further angered by this sign, posted on the night of March fifth, which purported to announce the Redcoats' determination to repulse any opposition.

John Adams, then a young successful lawyer and a militant foe of the English crown, was to be faced with decisions that could have ended his political career.

Perhaps... Not supermen... ordinary men... ordinary, but in whose hands there had been power... that it required little more than a single year to compile and catalog and broadcast to the world from this courtroom in Nuremberg, Germany, the full terrible truth of the system that these men had dreamed of... in a nightmare dream to be the Thousand-Year Reich and that was ended in twelve.

It did not, after all the uproar, appear to affect the Republican sweep in nineteen-forty-six nor was it, at least openly, an issue in Taft's drive for the presidential nomination in nineteen-forty-eight.

Taft's action was characteristic of the man who was labeled a reactionary and who was proud to be a conservative and who showed unhesitating courage in standing against the flow of public opinion for a cause that he believed to be right."

Certain things are second nature, even in a strange town — such as stepping down to let a white man pass... perhaps such deference is unnecessary, but Douglass is unsure of Northern ways.

There, he made speeches for his cause and, eventually, friends in England bought Douglass from his master, Captain Auld of Baltimore.

"LONG ISLAND 1849"Opening narration: "The contemporary called Daniel Webster a living lie — because no man on Earth could be so great as he looked.

He presented petitions for the abolition of the slave trade in the District of Columbia, he served as Secretary of State and returned to his seat in the Senate to face the crisis of impending Civil War.

""WASHINGTON, D.C. 1850" Closing narration: "Daniel Webster suffered many abuses for his stand for the Union and his own political ambitions were thwarted.

"The White House kitchen" "THE DETROIT FREE PRESS on the appointment of Louis Brandeis January 29, 1916...""..THE BOSTON TRANSCRIPT..""..HARVARD UNIVERSITY President A. Lawrence Lowell..""BOSTON, May 1916""On May twentieth, nineteen sixteen, President Wilson was aboard a train for Charlotte, North Carolina.

On the same train was Wilson's friend Josephus Daniels, assigned to talk to Lee Overman, a crucial member of the Senate committee voting on the Brandeis appointment."

Closing narration: "On Monday, June fifth, nineteen-sixteen, Louis Dembitz Brandeis appeared for the first time on the bench of the United States Supreme Court as an associate justice.

The record of his service in that court is public and distinguished, bearing on every hope that his friends expressed throughout the long fight to confirm his appointment.