Assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv. This weekend on cspan three. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. We are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights 1954 case of school segregation. Brown v. Board of education. We are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his sevenyearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. Black parents into peak felt that the day of trying to enroll their sch
Jon day five anti israel protests at Columbia University in New York City burned a rabbi at the Schools Organization for jewish students is warning them to leave campus immediately for their own safety. Good evening i am jon scott and this is the fox report. More that 100 protesters have been arrested over the past few days of demonstrations but one jewish professor on campus is called for the nypd National Guard to help drive the protesters off the campus. Cb cotton is alive in Columbia University with the latest. The chance from droves of protesters here behind me are encouraging students on the campus of Columbia University who have pitched another round of tense and pledging to stay in them until Columbia University cuts ties with israel and calls for a permanent ceasefire in gaza. The white house is now weighing in. Lucas tomlinson will have more later in the hour. The white house Statement Reads in part quote while every american has the right for peacefully protest calls for vio
Restore to a new generation of lawyers and citizens the understanding of the american founders about the First Principles of our law and the moral grounds of their own rights, natural law. We offer programs for attorneys, law students, judges, and the public to advance the ideas of natural law or natural rights and the constitution. One mention of note about the house we are in today the was built in 1825 during the first year of John Quincy Adams administration. He had just if he did jackson in a vote in the house of representatives that was a controversial election. The builder of the house happened to be here in washington at the time in charge of the reconstruction of the white house and the capital building, which had been burnt by the british in the war of 1812. He happened to also be a friend of John Marshall and justice story, and because the court only met three months in cheer, he rented rooms in this house to them because the court only met three months each year. Later on,
Wall. There was that much space between them. The walls were not conserved until later, but the house was rebuilt and it looked about what it did. It was more like a public building, maybe. It did notloors, have that saggy fielding that president roosevelt loved. But truman built it for all time so that the main thing would happen, the president would stay in the president s house. He was very emphatic about that. In fact, as the sub cellars were being dug, he came by and they were about to widen the door with air hammers, and he said stop. So they had to take the bulldozer and a truck all down, back, and, build them that is how they built the basement. There is enough space for a driveway to take them out. He saved these walls. He saved the mystique of the white house, president truman did. Susan you mentioned he did not conserve and thats probably where we will end. When of the properties you write about is that sandstone is very course and also subject to deterioration. So how was t
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s