Had liked Benny Goodman for the lumbardos. The two brothers, they both had bands. What over two guys who had best bands . She listened to big band music in my uncle of jazz. He was always listening to jazz. Those were the influences i had. Was your mother a performer . Artie my mother became a very famous she was the founder of the freedom rise. It will blow your mind about surely kornfeld. Shes the star in my family, not me. Reporter today, you are the star. Artie i am just a representative of a dream. Reporter Capitol Records was a new concept and you took a commanding position. How did that come about . Who just good friend sold his stock in martha stewart, chairman of the board we metrds for 15 years, if you read my book, we met at Queens College night school and he had just taken over the job working for Donnie Kershner from evans kershner music. I had already had a record out when i was 16. I was signed when i was 16 so i had a record out, and it died and nothing else happened. I
Somewhere they could be safe. Sometimes that was just the northern states. Sometimes mexico. And most famously all the way to canada to be in a completely different country and be free from the chance that they could get recaptured and brought about a into slavely. What was the journey like . Where are slaves at this time . And how were any making that journey in canada. In the decades before the civil war slaves were really everywhere in the United States. We think of them mostly in the south, rural places. But enslaved people are in cities, enslaved people are brought into northern cities. Some of them are sort of rented into the west and the northwest. And so theyre really everywhere. And often they would take the tune when they saw one either working with a network of people or by themselves to escape slavery. And to seek that freedom that they could find. What is the story that stands out to you of in your research of the slave making that journey . My research is really focused o
There are not many scenes such as this any more. You really have to look for them. In the looking, you will discover that our environment is not the endless thing our forefathers thought it was. Five years ago, montage sought out this kind of scene. We went to the closest major waterway we knew in the area of cleveland. And what we found was that every day because of what we do the Crooked River dies. The Cuyahoga River as most think of it, the brown stream that meets lake erie, an industrial waterway, its banks populated by steel mills and factories. Its channel filled with ships and tugs. The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100 mile twisting and turning journey from head waters is an exhausting stream. Abused, misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling area of cleveland, g akron would not exist. The river was the reason of settling here in the 1780s. The river called quicken by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio a
A healthy democracy does not just look like this. It looks like this. Where americans can see democracy at work. Citizens are truly informed and a republic thrives. Get informed, straight from the source. On cspan, unfiltered, unbiased, word for word from the nation mighty capital to wherever you are. The opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Are four panelists are David Cartwright, who is Professor Emeritus at the university of notre dame. And the former director of policy studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace in studies. He is the author of many books including ngpeace works, the citizens role in ending the cold war. Peace, a history of movements us and ideas and as the springboard for this session, a peaceful superpower lessons from the largest Antiwar Movement, which was just published this year on the 20th anniversary, more or less, of the start of the u. S. Work in iraq. I think all of you who regist
The entire globe of the world. Well, first of all, the domino theory was nonsense when it was articulated in it turned out to be nonsense in fact. No other countries fell to communist rule is because vietnam fell. Our theory about why we were going into the war reflected a disastrous lack of understanding about the anticolonial attitudes of the vietnamese people. They had thought the french for decades and then the japanese. They wanted selfrule. Fdr opposed supported french imperialists. The failure to understand that communism wasnt monolithic was also an Extraordinary Part of the ignorance that motivated the actions of the United States. The idea that china and vietnam were like this was ridiculous. Anybody who knew anything about history, which excludes top people in the u. S. Government, at least at that time, china and vietnam had thought many wars over the centuries and just a few years after the vietnam war ended, china and vietnam fought another war. I was there at the time. I