To kill the bank itself. Watch as they explore whether history impacts contemporary rights. Voting they also answer audience questions on how to keep in the voting d process. His discussion was part of a 15thsium, 150 years of the amendment. Of the south hosted this event. Weve here now. Had this wonderful 24 learning uess, of opportunities from this rilliant panel of individuals and were now here for the wrapup, and they have to us all day and yesterday are now going to have collaborate with each other. That i did not introduce myself so let me back up. My name is jodie allen and im a isiting assistant professor here at swanee and im also consultant on the slavery project. Oing back to the panel, im asking them to answer the question thats in our program that is, does history matter of the 15th amendment . A going to talk about that little bit and then well open with the audience. Okay . Who would like to start. Okay. Thank you. I think about history and it me of the african word sanc
Interested in American History . Watch American History television on cspan3 every weekend, 48 hours of people and events that helped document the american story. Joel simon come executive director of the committee to protect journalists, and author of the new censorship talks with a target a journalist by governments around the world including the u. S. Government. During this event mr. Simon is in conversation with Kathleen Carroll, executive editor of the associated press. Good evening, everyone. Thanks for being here tonight. Im thinking of Academic Affairs at the columbia Journalism School. We are very pleased to have the Kathleen Carroll and joel simon any conversation on the new censorship. Journalism is an increasingly dangerous profession. No one knows this more than our guests tonight. Joel simon is director of the committee to protect journalists, nor physician founded in 1981 my group of u. S. Correspondence who realized they couldnt ignore the dangers their colleagues arou
Come to realize it was indeed one of those years . It is a Pivotal Moment in history come a hinge moment if you will when you can see in retrospect some passage of time is critical distance how important that moment in particular time and gear if you will was and in many respects it has to have lasting consequences and reverberate through the years. I would argue that 1985 was both a watershed year hinge moment one could detect at the time as well as with the passage of 20 years. The verdict in the o. J. Simpson trial in october of 95 was a flash bulb moment for many people. They remember where they were when they heard the verdict in october of 1995 and similarly with the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building in Oklahoma City it was the worst deadliest act of domestic terrorism in history and people remember where they were when that happened. It happened. Again another flash bulb moment. So people knew that this year was going to be a memorable year in many respects. Host whe
History in which a dramatic transition took place at the absolute pinnacle of the governor of tennessee. Were going to begin by watching a four minute video that focuses on that moment that climaxed those hours. And then were going to try to recreate that moment in history with the three panelists, with lamar, senator, then soontobe our governor, with hal hardin who was a u. S. Attorney, and with keel hunt, the author whose book many of you already have gotten his autograph for that, so we are happy on behalf of the First Amendment center, im so happy to welcome you all here and to share what is truly unprecedented transition in government that took place all these years ago. I would like to begin by asking how many people, i know there are some people here, just regime, how many people were in the room the night that Lamar Alexander was sworn in as governor . Thats very interested in how many of you live in tennessee when this transition took place . So its a subject that is familiar
And lived with the dominant culture and so some of the stuff that ive learned from that i put back in my cartoons. Next on book tv, Barbara Matusow editor of scoop recounts the life and career of her late husband pulitzer prizewinning reporter jack nelson who died in 2009 at the age of 80. Ms. Matusow is joined by former president jimmy carter, former mayor of atlanta and u. S. Ambassador to the United Nations andrew young and former Justice Department spokesman Terry Adamson in the discussion of jack nelsons ms. Moore scoop the evolution of a southern reporter. Its about an hour good evening everyone. My name is haint and i will be moderating this wonderful panel tonight. The director of the Journalism Program at emory and a coauthor of a book about News Coverage in the Civil Rights Movement that featured jack quite prominently. First i want to thank the Carter Library and museum for hosting this and cosponsoring this and also Emory University which houses the papers and the wisdom of