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
Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing, his ability to take a day of complex events in a courtroom and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was then chairing an elected commission in los angeles
Store. Washington journal mugs and see all the cspan products. Sinceay marks 50 years astronauts begin their historic flight to the moon. The flight launched from Kennedy Space center. Covering events related to the 50th anniversary of apollo 11. This weekend, American History tv features the 50th anniversary of the apollo 11 mission and moon landing starting at saturday, 10 00 a. M. Moonsesident kennedys bees recorded at Rice University in houston. Speech. We choose to go to the moon and do other things, not because they are easy bubba because they are hard. And then, the air and space museum hosts a discussion with space suit designers and testers. They provide pressure, give you oxygen. You have to worry about thermal temperature control. You shrink them around the person. He went the person to stay alive, be safe, and get their work done. Moonwalk one. Lm, showing preparations and parades. 10 seconds and counting. Oxidize the tanks. They are pressurized. T minus one minute. Third s
But for now were glad to be undercroft auditorium to discuss this book fdr goes to war. A long time ago, i went to Mayfield High School in mayfield, kentucky, and in my senior year i was the coeditor of the high school newspaper, the cardinal, and i think the features editor that year was my classmate anita prince, and she has gone on to bigger things. She got married for one thing to burt folsom. She got two degrees. She worked for president reagan and she was the president elector and most recently she has directed hillsdale colleges Free Market Forum for five years. Her coauthor and husband is burton folsom, jr. , who holds a ph. D. From the university of pittsburgh. I actually visited pitt for the first time last fall and saw something id never heard of, which im surprised at. The cathedral of learning which is the second tallest University Building in the world the tallest one you might guess as in moscow where they always thought building something bigger they were doing Somethin
In two months, the construction of our building will be complete. For now, we are glad to be over here at the other croft auditorium to discuss this book fdr goes to war. Makeg time ago, i want to Old High School in may. Kentucky, and in my senior year, the high coed of school newspaper, the cardinal. Classmates, anita prince, got married to burton folsum, she got to history degrees and that got two history degrees she got two history degrees. Her coauthor and has been is burton folsum, jr. , who holds a phd from the university of pittsburgh. Pittsburgh last follows saw something i had never heard of, which i am surprised at the cathedral of learning, which is the second tallest University Building in the world, the tallest one, as you might guess is in moscow. Building things bigger was doing something better, but this is a 42 story building. The first few floors are built like a gothic cathedral. It is an amazing thing. A few are ever in pittsburgh, go if yound some time are ever in