Written, you will find a number of them are on historical figures but also the recent one on the gutenberg bible. We appreciate that and being a partner with us at the White House Historical association. Thank you. Margaret thank you. It was a joy to join you. Next on the presidency, we hear about the Kennedy Administrations work on womens rights from alan price, director of the jfk library and museum in boston. He explains that womens rights were parts of the kennedy platform and how that transferred into the equal pay act of 1963. The National Archives Foundation Hosted this discussion and provided the video. Alan one of the joys of my position is there is a heritage to president ial libraries and all of the prior directors of the jfk president ial library and museum have been mentors to me, as i have taken on the role. We have announced to the Community Just a couple of days ago the passing of the very first director of the jfk library. He was a member of the Kennedy Administration.
Thank you so much for joining us here on kron 4 news at 3 im Justine Waldman the bay area has officially been under a stay at home order for 6 months and as the coronavirus continues to spread a new threat is approaching thats flu season. Now one barrett county is trying to get ahead of the illness and try to make it easier for everyone to get a flu shot rob fladeboe has details about the program in Santa Clara County joins us now live from san jose good afternoon rob. Good afternoon. Justine flu shots will be free here at the Santa Clara County fairgrounds this saturday and every saturday through mid december. A flu shot can help keep you out of the hospital and that in turn will help hospitals take care of the more serious covid19 infection. Lets take a closer look. Santa clara county board of supervisors president cindy chavez is now among the first recipients of a flu shot. Its part of a new effort to urge everyone to get vaccinated against flu season which is just around the corne
Senate in 1919 and ratified in 1920. Here we are 100 years later. The 116th congress has the highest the percentage of women making up roughly a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. And we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points for women in american politics. I want to introduce our panelists and then well come back through and have each of them talk about the books or the period of time they are writing about for about five minutes. And then well open up the conversation to all of you. So when we get to that point for questions, id like each of you to go to the microphone, line up behind the microphone to ask your questions. So let me introduce you to david perry, working at the university of minnesota. Hes a descendant of elizabeth. She was a historian and wrote a boom about book about feminism politics. David helped publish his mothers final book after the vote.
National book festival Live Saturday september 26 on booktv. And welcome to another summer evening with booktv is binge watch series. Tonight were focusing on books written by former first ladies. The first first lady to venture into publishing was nellie tapp who recalled her time in the white house in her 1914 memoir, recollections in four years. Since then another for slaves have published memoirs. We will focus tonight on five women with serve in a position in the last few years. First up, Rosalynn Carter, she served as first lady from 19771981 and shes the author of five books. In 1984 for bestselling memoir, first lady from planes, was released. Her subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. A subject chess champion throughout her life. From 2010, here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be a tonight and really pleased to see so many people in interested in my book. Iv
She served as first lady from 1977 to 1981 and shes the author of five looks and a 1984 her bestselling memoir first lady from planes was released. This is carters subsequent books have focused on caregiving and Mental Health care. The subject shes championed throughout her life. Now from 2010 here is Rosalynn Carter talking about her book within our reach ending the Mental Health crisis. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you. Im really pleased to be here tonight and pleased to see so many people interested in my book. I have been on a book tour this week. I started on monday and i get the same two questions every time so i thought i would tell you what they were. The first one is how to do you get involved in Mental Health and the second one is why did you write the book lacks im going to tell you how i got involved in the to help. I was campaigning for jimmy in florida. That does make a difference. I was campaigning, and telling you how i got involved with Mental Health issues. I