Word: sukenik
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Buried 2,000 Years: The Dead Sea Scrolls (CBS's Armstrong Circle Theater), laced with film clips of monotonous desert vistas and sun-scorched hills, of "the sweet water of Galilee" and frenzied rioting in Palestine, retold the story of Hebrew Archaeologist Eleazar Sukenik's brave struggle to spirit the first of the ancient parchments through the barbed-wire barricades of hostile Arabs. But the crucial events that led to the archaeological find of the century and the evaluation of the Scrolls' significance to the history of Judaism and Christianity were too complex to be tailored skillfully...
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