So, good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Robert merry, this is his second presentation in the somewhat hallowed halls of the kansas city public library. Five star library this week from the public journal. Thank you. Hes a graduate of the university of washington. He has a masters degree from Columbia University school of journalism. Hes been a reporter for the observer, the wall street journal, managing editor, executive editor and editor in chief of congressional quart ley and more recently, the american conservative. The american conservative, he says its collaborative, but it sounds like robert merry. This is a description of their philosophy. We believe in constitutional government, fiscal prudence, sound monetary policy, clearly delineated borders, authentically free markets and Foreign Policy mixed with diplomatic acuity. We adhere closely to institutional max um, principles over party. One could wish there were more of that kind of true
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
On American History tv on c. Fan 3 we are here to review the major findings of our full investigation of fbi Domestic Intelligence including the cohen tell program and other programs aimed at domestic targets. Fbi surveillance of lawabiding citizens and groups, political abuses of fbi intelligence and several specific cases of unjustified intelligence operations. The 1975 Church Committee hearings convened to investigate the intelligence activities of the cia, fbi, irs and the nsa saturday night at 10 00 eastern the commission questioned former associate counsel and staff assistant to president Nixon Tom Charles houston on a plan he plent presented to president nixon using burglary, electronic surveillance and opening of mail. The bureau had undertaken black bag jobs over a number of years up until 1966. It had been successful and valuable, again, particularly in matters involving espionage. And that they felt this, again, w something given the climate they needed to have the authority
It was best known to history as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months and reviewed more than 10,000 documents and called more than 8000 witnesses before its staff. This included the creation of Committee Collection and the creation of the foreign internet Intelligence Surveillance act of 1978 which we know as i sub as isa. Providehave guests to Historical Context of the 40yearold video that you are about to see. Frederickork city, schwarz is with us and here in our studio in washington, d. C. Is elliot maxwell. Thank you to both of you for joining us. Start with the basics, mr. Maxwell, could you explain how the Church Committee got constituted . Most of it came about from a series of articles with activities by the Intelligence Community within the United States and followed by many people. This was in the context of the postwatergate resignation of president nixon. Continuing the vietnam war there was the thought that the intelligence agencies would be directed agains