American hiamerican histor products are available on the online store. Go to cspan store. Org to check out all of the cspan products. Today marks the 50th anniversary of a Landmark Supreme Court case, tinker v. Des moines. In just a moment well be talking to one of the key players in that case. John tinker will be joining us from des moines, iowa. But first, courtesy of cbs news, Walter Cronkite on the evening news 50 years today. The Supreme Court today endorsed the right of student protests so long as the protest does not disrupt order or interfere with the rights of others. But a dissenting justice hugo black said the ruling begins a revolutionary era of permissiveness fostered by the judiciary. The 72 decision upheld the right of three des moines teenagers to wear black antiwar arm bands to high school. The court said students do not leave their freedoms of speech and expression at the school door. That courtesy of the cbs news and two of the key players in this case, Mary Beth Tin
Today marks the 50th anniversary of a Landmark Supreme Court case. In a moment, we will talk to one of the key players in the case, and john taker is going to join us from des moines, iowa and first courtesy of cbs evening news on the evening news 50 years ago today. The Supreme Court today endorsed the right of student protest so long as the protest does not disrupt order or interfere with the rights others, but a dissenting justice hugo black says it begins the permissive era fostered by the judiciary. A 72 decision upheld des moines teenagers to wear the black arm bands into the school. That is courtesy of cbs evening news and two of the key players mary beth tinker, and johner and joining us from des moines is john tinker. Thank you for being with us. It is great to be with you. And we understand that there is some ice and bad weather in the des moines area, and your sister could not be here, so we appreciate your trekking out to be with us. That is right. We are having quite a sto
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We continue our look you now at the pharmaceutical industry with sarah farris, shes a Health Care Reporter for the hill and she discusses how the pharmaceutical industry is going on the offensive against a barrage of political attacks over rising drug prices. Sarah farris is back at our desk, shes a Health Care Reporter with the hill newspaper, joining us to talk about Prescription Drug prices and charms of the pharmaceutical companies profiteering with their drug prices. First the cost of Prescription Drugs, are they on the rise across the board or does this concern stem from a few high profile cases of prices rising . The cost of brand new and generic Prescription Drugs have been rising more rapidly than weve seen for the past couple of years. They still make up less than about 10 of Overall Health care spending, but this is the Fastest Growing segment of the Health Care Spending overall. So we get a lot of attention on Prescription Drugs because that is where im are seeing their pri