Talk about Police Accountability, criminal justice, Voting Rights and the 2016 election. Community activists and journalists look at the challenges of poverty, Gang Violence and drug addiction in lowincome communities in whats being done to address them. Tonight at 9 30 p. M. On cspan, Washington Post executive editor marty baron talks about threats to freedom of expression across the world, covering world events and the state of journalism. Early last year russian authorities were given the power to block websites without any official explanation. Almost immediately four russian opposition websites were blocked. By the summer of last year, speech on the internet was constrained even further. New rules required anyone with the daily online audience of more than 3,000 people to register with russias internet oversight agency. Names and Contact Details were to be provided and bloggers would be held liable for anything deemed misinformation, including in comments from members of the publi
Wed like to welcome you. Were lucky enough to have cspan with us and its bk recobk being recorded. And if you have questions later, please use the microphone on your left so the people at home can hear your question. President roosevelt planned for this library to be the primary Research Room from the roosevelt era. Its one of the busiest of the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect the wide variety of Research Done here on these grounds. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs we do here, i doen courage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing lauren at the membership table in this building just at the end of the hallway. And if you havent had a chance yet, please go next door to see our new special museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. With that said, let me go over some of the format protocols for t
Museum. Wed like to welcome you. Were lucky enough to have cspan with us and its bk recobk being recorded. And if you have questions later, please use the microphone on your left so the people at home can hear your question. President roosevelt planned for this library to be the primary Research Room from the roosevelt era. Its one of the busiest of the president ial libraries and this years group of authors reflect the wide variety of Research Done here on these grounds. If you love the roosevelt reading festival and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs we do here, i doen courage you to become a Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing lauren at the membership table in this building just at the end of the hallway. And if you havent had a chance yet, please go next door to see our new special museum exhibition, images of internment, the incarceration of japanese americans during world war ii. With that said, let me go over some of the format protoco
Good afternoon and welcome. I am patrick fahy a member of the archive staff and on behalf of the Library Museum i would like to welcome you to the annual roosevelts reading festival. We are fortunate enough to have cspan with us and our session is being recorded. Therefore if you would like to ask a question in the session, please use the microphone over here to the left so that people at home will be able to hear the question as well. President roosevelt envisioned the land of the library to become the premier Research Institution for studying the entire roosevelt era. The room is consistently one of the busiest of all of the president ial libraries into this years group of authors reflects a wide variety of Research Done on the grounds. If you love the reading festival, and im sure you do, and want to support this and other programs i do encourage you to become a per Roosevelt Library member. You can join today by seeing warren at the leadership table at the end of the hallway. And i
Conversation2027488900. That is for eastern and central time zones. If in the pacific or mountain 88901. Nes, 20274 you can also post questions and comments on our facebook page. Facebook. Com cspanhistory. Mr. Leonard, thank you for joining us this afternoon. Mr. Leonard it is my pleasure to be here. Host lets start with where is andersonville . For someone who is not aware of andersonvilles significance, where does it fall . Mr. Leonard it is important to start with this idea that military prisoners and prisoners of war are often left out of the mainstream telling of the war. Quite frankly, there are no winners in this story. This is not a battlefield. It is something entirely different. It is a valor and honor. Those concepts take a different form here. In many respects, in a standard telling of war, there is a knowledge meant there is an acknowledgment yes, they are prisoners of war, and then you move right back to the battles. Often, and addressing the story, there is an acknowled