All of us wanted to have a good book ready for the fall of 2012. And many of us in the Historical Community as well as certainly at the library knew that there were these tremendously rich tapes, only a small percentage of which had actually been heard, and that it would be a service to the Historical Community and to all americans to get the tapes out to the listening public. So the library made the tapes available, but they need add historian to write an introduction and annotate, and so thats where i came in. Im going to run a quick one here. This is from the 1952 senate race. Its not a tape of john f. Kennedy, but its a jingle. Lets listen to this. When we vote this november lets all remember lets vote for kennedy make him your selection in the Senate Election hell do more for you and me look at kennedys history youll see its no mystery hes your kind of man so do all that you can and vote for kennedy we added the pictures and photographs ourselves. But thats a part of the c. D. s t
It was a rapidly evolving historical task. I listened to a lot of these tapes at night and on weekend. I got very immersed in the world of listening. There were good days and bad days. When i started, a lot of it was inaudible to me. The quality of the meeting tapes is not always that good, especially in the cabinet room, a pretty big room where these primitive mics didnt pick up the sounds that well. Often the distance of the room, it might not sound very loud at all, someone close would sound very loud so. There were days i thought i cant get this done, its too hard. But over time i began to hater better. And then the telephone tapes were a big step forward. When i found those, i was very excited, because theyre high quality in every way. You talked about a dictabelt conversation he had with himself or with his secretary. Yes. This is from 1960, i assume well, i shouldnt assume anything, it was during the campaign . It was during a Long Dinner Party conversation talking about running
Up on a man man i thought it was a2 personal thing and then he just started down the row hitting everybody with something with something i dont know people were bleeding. The machete carrying suspect shot and killed by police. What does the fbi know about him . Fox reporter karl more gan is in columbus. What you can tell me about this suspect who came into that restaurant with that machete . Greta, here is what we do know now. Columbus police they are the lead investigators in this brutal machete attack here at the nazareth restaurant in columbus. And the shooting death of suspect mohammed bare. We just got information into our newsroom through our sources that bary was known by the fbi but not under a full scale investigation. His name though was in a data base that includes people who have potentially relations to terrorism. Police called in the fbi last night after they saw some red flags with this style of attack. Now, police say barry went into this restaurant alone and a started
Musings of a loser as trump says. Just as Hillary Clinton looks to be putting away her president ial nomination race, what is that you hear . Is it the drip, drip, drip of her email server controversy . The aide that set up that serve are has just been granted immunity to cooperate with the fbi investigation. Plus pyongyang firing six shortrange projectiles off the north korean coast. Is kim jongun inching closer and closer to firing a Nuclear Device at another country . Mitt is tough, hes smart, hes sharp. Hes not going to allow bad things to continue to happen to this country that we all love. So governor romney, go out and get em. You can do it. It seems like a long time ago. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. That was a clip from 2012 when the Republican Party felt like it was in the middle of a divisive primary fight. It was not compared to 2016. The Republican Party seems to be in the middle of a civil war, so divisive it could fracture the gop forever. Hes playing the members
Against american citizens until 9 11. Where does the Obama White House stand in all this now, and how bad could this situation get for u. S. Interests in the region, a region that is a tinder box tonight . Jim rosen kicks it off from the white house. Reporter thousands of iranians protested saudi arabias mass executions on friday, including the beheading of al nimr. By sunday a mob had set fire to the Saudi Embassy in tehran, and even though the iranians quickly arrested 40 suspects, iran responded by severing diplomatic ties with iran. We will be cutting off diplomatic ties with iran, we will be cutting off commercial relations with iran and we will have a ban on people traveling to iran. Translator saudi arabia has used this issue as another excuse to create tension and conflict. Reporter bahrain, sunni and tehran have also severed ties. Like syria and yemen, saudi arabia, the leading exporter of the holiest site, have waged a struggle for regional dominance against iran, the shiites