of books focus on one singular question. who shot jfk? of ahis part military-industrial complex because of initiatives that kennedy had taken? these issues are fascinating and they have inspired what is and remains and will remain a passionate debate among people on all different sides of this issue. that s not what this book is about. i am not writing a book about who shot j.f.k. i have no new theories to offer about where the bullets came from or who shot j.f.k. this is actually a very different book. what i m interested in is not who shot j.f.k., i m interested in the transfer of political power that takes place in the hours after the assassination, and i want to move the focus away from the tragedy that s unfolding in the presidential limousine and move it back about 60 feet to the car carrying lyndon johnson, follow lyndon johnson over the course of the day, as he goes to parkland hospital and then to air force one and back to washington, d.c., to give people a sense of
understands everything. watch to god, they all star trek. it s what their gunning for. this week in prime time on c-span. more now from the western phoenix. meeting in [captions copyright national cable satellite corp.2017] we re down to our last panel on this very packed day. invite the roundtable up.icipants to come the moderator e to make some introductions. governor from colorado colorado. all right. thank you, jim. one of the great challenges we is trying to ors anticipate the action and the that our actions will have down the road on future generations. will give us l some insights on what that future might look like. by re going to start looking backward over the past get a s to let us to capsule-sized look at how the country s changed. you, if you have one back and told me in 1992 what we have now, i wouldn t have believed it. explosion of internet, unbelievable changes in social unications, changes, how we do everything. it s just a different world than we
all right. thank you, jim. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] one of the great challenges we face as governors istrying to is trying to anticipate the actions and consequences that our actions will have down the road on future generations. this next panel will give us some insights on what the future might look like. they re going to start by looking backward over the past 25 years to let us to get a capsule-sized look at how the country s changed. and most of you, if you have if you haven t gone back and told me in 1992 what we have now, i wouldn t have believed it. the explosion of internet, unbelievable changes in telecommunications, social changes, how we do everything. it s just a different world than what we had 25 years ago. if you believe any of these compounding acceleration laws, the next 25 years, the rate of change will be even more rapid. hopefully, that rate of change will be for the better. our panel will offer a glimpse of what th
2017 winter meeting at the arizona biltmore hotel in phoenix. in this next portion, labor secretary alexander costa delivers the keynote speech. he talks about labor trends in western states in ways that governors can partner with each other and the federal government to create more jobs . this is 45 minutes . we have a very, very special guest to address this audience and engage with the governors and to introduce that gas, i am happy to recognize our chairman, the honorable dennis after. before i introduce our guest, secretary acosta, i d like to talk about the workforce development initiative that i began as chair of wga. all of us face the challenge of preparing our citizens for work place that looked a little bit different than they did when i started my working career with my parents or grandparents did, certainly. at four workshops this past fall, workforce development initiative brought together policymakers, business leaders, educators and others are working to c
reader questions and talks about the significance of the osage indian murders. don t think you can s derstand our country unless you understand trt of our history. this is one of the worst racial injustices and cminal conspiracies in american history and it was never taught in school. woodruff: at and more on tonight s pbs newshour. major fundi for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions: thiprogram was made ssible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. woodruff: it s been nearly two weeks since a gunman killed 17 people at a high school in parkland, florida. now, congress faces the question nof what to do about guns america. the aner is anything but clear. lisa desjardins begins our coverage desjardins: wking the halls of congress today, students turned activists from marjory stoneman douglas high, pressing for more gun control. their