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Ken Burns and Florentine Films put viewers in the front seat of Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson's historic — and hilarious — journey to be first person to cross the United States by car. Now...
Oct 6, 2003 · Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip: Directed by Ken Burns. With Keith David, Tom Hanks, Adam Arkin, Tom Bodett. The saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, the first man to cross the United States by automobile--in 1903!
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a 2003 documentary film directed by Ken Burns and written by Dayton Duncan. Its subject is the first cross-country automobile journey in the United States, which occurred during the summer of 1903.
From PBS - In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person...
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip is a one-episode, two-hour film, for which Burns teamed up again with writer/producer Dayton Duncan. Tom Hanks is the...
America's First Road Trip. In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled “horseless carriage.”
On a visionary whim and a $50 bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent. His arrival in New York City, after every imaginable breakdown and delay, proved that the "horseless carriage" really did have a future.