They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co
Presentation to a packed house. When she had finished, they asked if there was anything she would like, and she said, i would like to hear your famous organ play. The organist came over, and i and he played come, come ya saints. The president walked up to the organ and placed her hand on the wooden case. A person who was there at the time said helen keller just left as she felt the throbbing of the great instrument and the sound of those types playing the song that the pioneers had sang as they came across the plains. There is something unique about this choir that comes across to audiences. I think it is a combination of things. It is not just the sound of the choir. It isnt just how well trained they are and how professional they are. I think it is their sincerity about their message. The audiencen to at the end of any performance or broadcast to sing god be with you until we meet again, i see tears in the eyes of the people out there. I know the stories of the choir members. I know
Kennedy. Senatore former u. S. Who served as a lawyer for the worn commission describes the evolution of the single bullet theory. This is a 20 minute portion of an oral history interview he recorded with the pennsylvania cable network. He died in 2012 at the age of 82. How was the fbi and cia to work with . Very cooperative. Question as to whether they had a conflict of interest. Ruby had been interviewed by an agent. There was a question as to whether they could do an independent job. But we had no investigators of our own. I think it was not a good idea to have the fbi money investigation because they were too much involved in it. But that decision was made and we did the best we could. The people we worked with were very able people. The secret service cooperated. Assigned to the chief justice. One was in the front seat. The driver, the name escapes me. T the moment another person you wanted to get testimonial from was former first Lady Jacqueline kennedy. Was only briefed for a fe
Is composed of k. U. Students committed to the work of the Dole Institute. Before we begin tonight, id like to remind you to please turn off your cell phones. After the interview, we will have some time for our audience questions and answers. If you have a question, please raise your hand and a student helper with a microphone will come to you. Please ask just one brief question. And now id like to introduce you to the associate director of the Dole Institute of politics, barbara ballard. [applause] thank you, quinn. Good evening and welcome to the robert j. Dole institute of politics at the university of kansas. We are pleased to have you join us for the president ial first series, the ladies. The 2014 president ial election series is sponsored in part by the william t. Kemper ii Charitable Trust and Commerce Trust company and bob lloyd cotrustees. This evenings interview will conducted by bill lacy, director of the Dole Institute, Richard Norton smith was the First Permanent director
Not only at Abraham Lincolns bedside immediately after his assassination, but also at the bedside of William Mckinley in 1901. I thought, who could this below be . Of course, when i opened the archives, i realized with a rich subject it was. John hay, his life really has two bookends at either end of his biographical shelf. There is lincoln on one end, he was his private secretary, lived in the white house for every war years. So much of what we know about lincoln comes from hays time with him. He served on the mckinley as well and was secretary of state for teddy roosevelt, so you have these iconic bookends in american history, and then when you look deeper, you realize all the chapters in between, from the civil war to the beginning of the 20thcentury, he is a presence in every one of those chapters. His fingerprints are on the pages. In many cases, he has written those chapters in american history. When did he live . Born in 1838, and died on july 1 1905. Where did his last start .