c-span history. >> each week, american history tv brings us reel america. ♪ >> this is my neighbor, charles mcgonegali would like you to meet him. i think he is an interesting fellow. watch him shaving, for instance. what is so unusual about that? hands, no hands except for those genius substitutes. and he does things just as casually as any other man. stroking his face like mine with a razor like i have. beforehe lost his arm -- he woke up, he did everything like i do. these things are not difficult for charlie. have barbersen shave them, but the majority do it themselves and charlie has patterned his life after every man. he maintains that if you think normally, there is no reason why you should not act normally. charlie can get by without the use of his hands without other people helping him. charlie prefers to be independent. himas never occurred to before world war i to have somebody else brush and comb his hair. after a grenade exploded and blew his hands off in france, he figured there still was not anyone living who would handle mcgonegal that are then thanegal -- better mcgonegal. does not s