Capitol and saw these pages and thought, wow, what a great opportunity this would be and saw they were all boys and was told, well, we just dont feel like this is the place for girls to operate. And i at that age between sixth and seventh grade said, well thats just not fair. He said, well, maybe we can do something about that. So when i went back to school in the fall, i wrote letters to mr. Albert. And wrote letters to mr. Albert and wrote letters to mr. Al berd for many years, and finally one day when i was just about to graduate from high school, i got a call from charlie ward, who was mr. Alberts administrative assistant, and he asked me how i would feel about being the first woman page. Well, needless to say, i was finally ecstatic about this. I said, well ill have to ask my parents first. He said, well, mr. Albert has already spoken the to your parents and its okay with them. And i said absolutely. So thats how it began. And by the latter 1970s. Its about half and half females,
Venture into the art of good writing with steve pinker. At 12 30 see the feminist side of a super hero as jill lapore searches wonder woman. Pamela paul and others talk about their reading habits. On American History tv on cspan3 at 8 a. M. Eastern the fall of the berlin wall with footage of president bush and bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. Fashion experts on first lady fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the time in which they lived. And then at 10 p. M. , former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on cspan networks. For our complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Coming up next, former Intelligence Analyst for both the state department and the cia mark stout explores the history of espionage during world war i. He focuses on four american agencies that participated in spying. The navy department, War Department, state department and the Expeditionary Forces abroad, incl
Causes. Then at 8 p. M. , Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito and former Florida Governor jeb bush on the bill of rights and the Founding Fathers. On cspan2 at 10 a. M. Eastern venture into the art of good writing with steve pinker. At 12 30 see the feminist side of a super hero as jill lapore searches wonder woman. Pamela paul and others talk about their reading habits. On American History tv on cspan3 at 8 a. M. Eastern the fall of the berlin wall with footage of president bush and bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. Fashion experts on first lady fashion choices and how they represented the styles of the time in which they lived. And then at 10 p. M. , former nbc news anchor tom brokaw on his more than 50 years of reporting on world events. Thats this Christmas Day on cspan networks. For our complete schedule go to cspan. Org. Coming up next, former Intelligence Analyst for both the state department and the cia mark stout explores the history of espionage durin
C span networks. For our complete schedule, go to cspan. Org. 50 years ago on september 24th, 1964, Supreme Court chief Justice Earl Warren handed a report of the president s commission on the assassination of president kennedy to president Lyndon Johnson in the oval office. The seven commissioners pictured here with president johnson and general counsel Jay Lee Rankin concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone in killing president kennedy. The Warren Commission worked for nine months in this building, the Washington Office of the vfw, a short walk from the Supreme Court building and the u. S. Capitol. We set up a camera in a fourth Floor Conference Room to talk to investigative journalist philip shenon, whose book a cruel and shocking act examines the Warren Commissions work, using key phone calls, documents and artifacts, mr. Shenon explains the lingering controversies regarding the war and the report. But first we take a brief tour of the former Warren Commission offices. Hi, im b
Hear lectures on campusesumzu as the country on topics ranging from the American Revolution to the 9 11 terrorist attacks. Again, lectures in history every saturday at 8 00 p. M. And midnight eastern on american programs youll find Christmas Day on the cspan n bwuju ay holiday festivities start at 10 00 a. M. Eastern with the lighting of the National House christmas decorationes and lighting of the capitol christmas tree. Just after 12 30 p. M. , celebrity activist talk about their causes. Florida Governor jeb bush on the billd8oc of rights an Founding Fathers. On cspan 2 at 10 00 a. M. Gp eastern, the art of good writing with steve pinker. At 12 30 see the feminine side of a superhero as jill lepore looks at the secret history of wonder woman. Pamela paul and others talk about reading sn q habits at 11. And on cspan 3 atjkwn a. M. Eastern, the fall of the berlin wall with president bush, bob dole with speeches from john kennedy and ronald reagan. At noon, fashion experts on first la