- Title: Secrets Of The Dead: The Jamestown Massacre
- Date: 6th July 2002
- Description:SEE RECORD 110796 FOR SHOTLIST In December 1606,104 men sailed out of London with instructions to make North America a permanent colony for the English Crown. They set down on Jamestown Island and made it the first capital of Anglo-America. But by spring 1608,68 of the original colonists were dead. The traditional explanation for this was that the men were a motley crew of delicate 'gentlemen',ill-equipped to deal with their mission. But there may have been a more sinister explanation. The Jamestown Massacre documents the work of archaeologist Dr Bill Kelso,who uncovered the original Jamestown Fort site and some of the original skeletons and concluded that drought,bad drinking water and Native Americans were responsible for the death of a hardy group of Englishmen. It also tells of a more extreme theory. Is pathologist Frank Hancock right in thinking that the men were victims of arsenic poisoning? (Also known as 'Murder in Jamestown'.) (Contains Reconstruction Footage)
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Optomen Television Ltd.
- Transmission Date:06/07/2002
- Rights:Worldwide
- Decade: 2000s