Be sure to watch the washington journal beginning live at 7 eastern thursday morning. Join the discussion. Tonight, youve been watching some of our American History tv programming in prime time. Youll find us here every weekend on cspan 3. Well take you live to conferences and symposium and historical sites. On american artifacts, go behind the scenes with us to museums and archives and travel to the nations classrooms where youll hear from college and University Professors on lectures in history. As the 2016 campaign continues, watch past president ial campaigns on road to the white house rewind. And journey through the 20th century on real america, which showcases documentaries and other archival films. Over the next few weeks, watch for our airings of portions from the 1975 Church Committee hearings investigating the intelligence activities of the cia, fbi, irs and nsa. Look for all of our programming every weekend on cspan 3. John dean, former white House Counsel to president nixon
Eastern and one person came and she said, you were chosen. She was from czechoslovakia. She was there for four years already in the concentration camp. She spoke hungarian also. And they ask her, whats happening to where are our parents . And our and she said, you see that smoke . There are your parents. Holocaust survivor anna gross recalls her familys experience in the ghettos in nazioccupied hungary, at auschwitz concentration camp in poland, and forced hard labor. This event was part of the United States Holocaust Memorial museums first person series. Then at 8 00 on elect yoouz in history an anarchist named Alexander Berkman broke into fricks office in nearby pittsburgh, shot him twice, and repeatedly stabbed him. Berkman, however, is one of the great failures in assassination history. Not only did he fail to kill frick, he also undermined the strikers for whom he was professing sympathy. Because in many ways Public Opinion saw this outburst of radical violence as a discredit to t
Hearings, investigating the intelligence activities of the cia, fbi, ins and nsa. Look for our programming every weekend on cspan3. Coming up next, a discussion with two men at the center of the events known as watergate. Alexander butter field fle flekts on the subject with bob woodward. The event was cohosted by the Harry Ransom Center in texas and the lyndon b. Johnson president ial library. Its an hour. Good evening, i want to welcome you to this conversation with Alexander Butterfield and bob woodward which will be conducted by my friend and colleague, mark updegrove. My name is steve ennis, im director of the Harry Ransom Center which is pleased to be co sponsoring this evenings progr program. Bob woodward has a special tie to the university of texas. In 2003 he and his wraug post colleague Carl Bernstein, placed their watergate papers here at the universitys Harry Ransom Center. It was a historically excite in acceptance. The identity of deep throat was made public. Many hours o
Good morning, everyone. Thank you so much for coming. My name is mike german, a fellow with the Brennan Center for justice at the new york law school. I welcome you to strengthen oversight. This year marks 40th anniversary of the creation of Senate Select committee to study governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities, more simply known as Church Committee after chairman senator church. It was the first and only comprehensive investigation of secret intelligence activities within the United States. This is one of a series of activities that the Brennan Center has undertaken to recognize this anniversary. We published a report called whats wrong with the fisa court with directors, they will be leading a panel two panels on executive oversight activities. We also published a report on strengthening congressional oversight signed by 18 Church Committee staffers, many of whom are in the room with us today and youll notice that they have name tags on. So feel free to talk
Archives and research center. He discusses the Committee Findings related to political assassinations. The Church Committee investigated abuses by u. S. Intelligence agencies from the 1950s through wear the gate. This was recorded in 2013 at due cane university at an International Symposium to mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of john f. Kennedy. The discussion ran 50 minutes. Hello. My talk is going to be a little bit different. I want to start with kind of a History Lesson that took hopefully will show some of the context of what were talking about. I not directly about the kennedy assassination, although ill be moving into that as well. I apologize if some of this is familiar ground. Okay. I would like to start by painting a picture of a time. Imagine this, if you will. Wiretapping and spying on americans, and even targeting a foreign adversary for assassination. Wait, im describing 2013. P not just liberal institutions and democratic leaders, but also on the other side