Which U.S. President was examined in the 2000 TV special Sally Hemings: An American Scandal?
Sally Hemings Sally Hemings Sarah "Sally" Hemings ( 1773 – 1835) was an enslaved woman of mixed race owned by President Thomas Jefferson of the United States. There is a "growing historical consensus" among scholars that Jefferson had a long-term relationship with Hemings, and that he was the father of Hemings' five children, born after the death of his wife Martha Jefferson. Four of Hemings' children survived to adulthood. Hemings died in Charlottesville, Virginia, in 1835. Sally Hemings came to Jefferson's home as an infant with her siblings and her mixed-race mother, Betty, as part of his wife Martha's inheritance of slaves
Jefferson–Hemings controversy significance of the relationship between Jefferson's documented residencies at Monticello and Hemings' conceptions. He concluded that there was a 99 percent chance that Jefferson was the father of Hemings' children. In May 2000, PBS "Frontline" produced, "Jefferson's Blood," a program about the issues related to the DNA test and historical controversy. It stated in its overview: More than 20 years after CBS executives were pressured by Jefferson historians to drop plans for a mini-series on Jefferson and Hemings, the network airs "Sally Hemings: An American Scandal." Though many quarreled with the portrayal of Hemings as unrealistically modern and heroic, no