The Orphan Trains (1995)
Elliot Bobo was taken from his alcoholic father's home, given a small cardboard suitcase, and put on board an "orphan train" bound for Arkansas. Bobo never saw his father again. He was one of tens of thousands of neglected and orphaned children who over a 75-year period were uprooted from the city and sent by train to farming communities to start new lives with new families. Elliot Bobo's remarkable story is part of The Orphan Trains.
- Date of release
- 1995-11-27
- Runtime
- 55m
- Genres
- Documentary, History
- Director
- Janet Graham, Edward Gray
Casting
- Stacy Keach — Narrator (voice)
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