All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate, very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspans history series, let marquesas. Tonight is number 10. You will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. This is the court that wrote brown versus board of education and we will learn wider the next 90 minutes. It began a re
Petitioner, versus arizona. We are argument, number 18, row versus wade. Quite often, in our most famous decisions are once that the court took unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases series. Tonight, case number 11 out of 12. And this is the 1966 case miranda v. Arizona that helped revolutionize producing during the night. Its your under arrest, you have the right to remain silent, anything you say can be used against you do you know your miranda . Writes yes. Lets hear them. You have a lot of stuff to do. Are you sure you understand your rights . Oh, yes. He explained them to me. Just like they do on television. Ive done nothing wrong. If the right to remain silent. I bought them. Talk to my lawyer. You have the right to an
Are ones that the court made very unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stuck together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Tonights case is gideon versus wayne. Wreck 55 years ago this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the right to counsel was so fundamental to our dove governmental system. That states must provide lawyers for defendants who cannot afford. One the hero of tonights story is a bit of an unlikely. One Clarence Gideon was adrift her from florida was accused of breaking a pool. As we begin tonight, were gonna go to some historic video. You see the real mr. Gideon and the florida judge who sentenced to jail. They reenacted the case for cbs news documentary in 1965. Lets watch the next case on the docket is the state of florida versus Clarence Earl gideon. What says the state are you ready for trial . The st
It is 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 bureau chief at the Los Angeles Times. I first became familiar with his writing in the 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trials for the officers and the beating of rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing. Concisely andings 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 chairing an elected commission in los angeles to revise the city charter. I saw not only was he amazingly talented but a reporter of enormous integrity. He believed the Los Angeles Times was not devoting enough to charter reform and quit his position in protest of this. He put
In world war ii. Whoral mason was a veteran served in the european theater in George Pattons third army and went on to have a long career in the military. Several retiring, held highranking positions in the pentagon, including assistant deputy chief of all operations and special assistant to the deputy chief of logistics. So it is a very special night any time we have a mason lecture at the museum. Thanks to the generosity of general mason and his family, we are proud to host tonights by one, a Public Lecture of the worlds most distinguished holocaust scholars. Museum,to think, at the we tell the story of the entire experience of world war ii and feel that too often the holocaust and world war ii are studied as separate, almost isolated topics. We believe it is our role to help our audiences understand the broader context surrounding the holocaust and the legacies it continues to impact on her world. We have one more exhibition to come. Believe it or not, there is room for one more bui