now you can give yourself a kick in the rear! v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from green tea plus fruits and veggies. need a little kick? ooh! could ve had a v8. in the juice aisle. we read about it as a foreign threat today, we don t read very much about communism as a threat to our internal security any more. what is your view on the seriousness of the common situation here at home? i think it s the most critical problem we have to face up to on internal security. the communist party of the united states is an arm of the international conspiracy against freedom and against god. a conspiracy against god. you know who hated the march on washington in august 1963? the fbi. j. edgar hoover head of the fbi for decades at that point, j. edgar hoover in many ways hated the civil rights movement, and
posted some of the mainstream press coverage of the march from the day that it happened back in august 1963. i always think that s an interesting way to look back at modern historical events. that s why we show a lot of old nbc news footage on this show, for example. in the case of the march, some of that contemporaneous coverage from 63 is also just amazing for its craft. for its writing. the day dawned clear and cool. at 7:00 a.m. the town had a sunday appearance except for the shuttle buses drawn out in front of union station waiting. by 10:00 a.m., there were 40,000 on the slopes around the washington monument. an hour later the police estimated the crowd at 90,000, and still they poured in. because some things went wrong at the monument, everything was right. most of the stage and screen celebrities from new york and hollywood who were scheduled to begin entertaining the crowd at 10:00, did not arrive to the airport until 11:15. the whole affair began to take on the spontaneity
in front of the reflecting pool a day to reflect not just on the past not just on august 1963 with you but where this country is today. you could see in the eyes of the people they were very proud to see this first african-american president take to the lectern today but they were also, you could see the expression in their eyes there was some concern about where we are headed as a nation. you can look back thering to that dome and there was a lot of division under that dome in our country and it is spread across from washington all the way from california to maine, and folks are really concerned about our future as much as they are about the present and today they wanted to celebrate but also redouble the efforts to keep the dream alive and not to be by spanned standers but to be part of the change they a this country so desperately needs at this point. ron, talk to me a little bit about the makeup of the crowd. we know 50 years ago, folks boarded buses. they got there any way they
us. at maddowblog.com today we posted some of the mainstream press coverage of the march from the day that it happened back in august 1963. i always think that s an interesting way to look back at modern historical events. that s why we show a lot of old nbc news footage on this show, for example. in the case of the march, some of that contemporaneous coverage from 63 is also just amazing for its craft. for its writing. the day dawned clear and cool. at 7:00 a.m. the town had a sunday appearance except for the shuttle buses drawn ut in front of union station waiting. by 10:00 a.m., there were 40,000 on the slopes around the washington monument. an hour later the police estimated the crowd at 90,000, and still they poured in. because some things went wrong at the monument, everything was right. most of the stage and screen celebrities from new york and hollywood who were scheduled to begin entertaining the crowd at 10:00, did not arrive to the airport until 11:15. the whole affair beg
the march on washington. . free at last, free at last, thank god almighty we are free at last. over the weekend thousands walked in the footsteps of those civil rights pioneers. heros from 50 years ago and all this week, we ll be bringing you special coverage right here looking back at the key moments of that week in august 1963 that fortified a movement and changed the course of history. today, the women who shaped civil rights with merrily williams. where are the women that need to be acknowledged in this movement for freedom and justice. we must not forget them. and good day.