Ever political ad. I am head of the moving image section at the library of congress. Packard are at the campus for audiovisual conservation. ,t opened in the summer of 2007 dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. Favorites films that we have in the collection is what we believe is the very First Political ad, 1912, and which william in howard taft and Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt is running for the progressive party, bull moose party. Produced by the Democratic National committee, the old way and the new. It opens up with this rich, fat plutocrat who comes in to an office where one of his flunkies is dusting off portraits of Theodore Roosevelt and william of thetaft as an example old way. Money,he has lots of dispensing favors, all sorts of political corruption. They are contrasted with the new way of doing things, represented by Woodrow Wilson, the champion of the common man. The film actually inns with a plea for people to send one dollar to the Democratic National committee on behalf of the Woodrow Wilson campaign, because Woodrow Wilson is for the common man. Republicans are for the. Ealthiest 1 somehow those tropes have not changed in the last 100 years. We have 1. 4 million items in the collection, so there are plenty of treasures out there to be discovered. The great thing is that with new technology, not only the ability to preserve the older films on newer from stock, but we have a lot more Technology Available to digitize the film and make them available for people. Nowe known about the film, we have ways of getting it out there for people to see. You are watching American History tv, 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter at cspan history. And scheduleon programs and to keep up with the latest history news. People be hitting people in the head. I dont think other people and america could take this stuff. What you think about the police . They ate nothing but cakes, man. They picked me up because i was not in school. They said, im going to take you to the pig cage. I said, you are going to take me aunt, buddy. People are living like they have to live in the black community, how are you going to get a handle on these problems. Had you create an awareness of a need . Washingtons third least restricted, there is contrast here third police district, there is contrast here, a court or of violence in the spring rights of 1968. Robbers, 16 aggravated assaults, and high incidence of rape, homicide, and arson. ,ith drug abuse as the source baby attics will die from overdose. A Mayors Committee had chosen this site for a new opportunity. With high hope in more than 1 million, the plan was this. He wrote suspicion and fear among police and the people, find ways of helping the police force to be part of the community again. There were those in the Third District for whom the experiment was dangerously flawed. The overall goal of the project is to try to get at what we recognize is now a pervasive distrust between the citizens and the police. When you talk about control, it falls short of a total citizen control of the precinct. There was never any provision in the grant or in the plan for that sort of control. Thats absolute control. We in the black community see the police as enemies. I remind everyone here that i may very well be shot as i walk out that door if i happen to anger some white policeman. I am aware of that him and every black person is, and therefore we want to control those individuals. Everyone and the mother knows that the police is the number one problem in america. If you dont want to deal with that, that is your problem. Maybe we are happy that the mayor asked us to cup here come here, but im not. Ive been on more important committees than this. How does the Committee Use power . Im not concerned about what happens to marion berry, but what im talking about what can we do about the black people out here who do have problems with the police. . We just have to try to figure out a way to make sure that when you get as old as i am that you dont have to live in those conditions, see the drug addicts, and the dope, so i think thats what we are talking about, how do you take a dude like this and make sure that he grows up to the amman, that he can stand tall, that he gets the advantages and opportunities at other people get. That means we have to do something about about trying to get some kind of control over our communities, right . About what is happening in our communities and a right . I think we can do that, dont you think so . Right on. Monday night on the communicators, this summer marks the 25th anniversary of digital television. Televisionaries talks about the development of the medium. 25 years ago, cbs convinced us that we should submit to the fcc as the next generation of the terrestrial broadcast standard. We were not sure we wanted to do that because we were satellite and cable guys and did not have a whole lot to do with the terrestrial broadcast networks, but we ended up doing that. 1990l of a sudden in june a cover was blown. At first, everyone said it was impossible, what we were claiming, but sure enough, a year or so later, it became a real race. Monday night at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on the communicators on cspan2. Donald miller talks about what daily life was like for british and american airmen during world war ii and how their experiences differed from infantrymen. He also describes how the strategy of using air power changed over the course of the war. This class is two hours. Prof. Miller im going to show you some slides. It is not a pro forma lecture. We will keep the lights on. If you have questions, observations, let me know. Where we are at in 1943. We have invaded sicily, we have invaded italy. We are beginning to win the battle of the atlantic. An enormous russian victory at stalingrad
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