He also talks about the killing of Lee Harvey Oswald and the Warren Commission, which was organized to investigate the assassination. Its a little over two hours. Ralph lovely thank you all for coming. It is never easy to get here. The metro is not working well today. Second i would like to thank the Smithsonian Associates program. They do such a remarkable job. If you cant find Something Interesting in that catalog you are dead. There are so many fascinating programs in art and history and science. Just on a nice job of putting the programs together. It is always a delight to be here. I am appreciative that cspan3 is filming this. I was able to watch as they had the first segment. The lincoln talk is this past saturday. It is now archived so if you want to watch it again it is now available and easy to find. I dont know when they are putting garfield or mckinley on. It would save us a lot of time. Todays talk is quite different than the other three. A lot of us in this room were alive
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And im your host, bill kurtis. This is through the decades. These days, president ial conventions are generally a demonstration of political pageantry. Several days for each party to showcase their best to the nation, to dress up in niceties, to firmly dispense with whatever the primary campaigns have wrought and focus on the election at hand. But, the Political Convention has not always played such a congenial role in president ial politics. Over the next hour, well remember some of the most influential conventions to shape modern politics. Well recall the raucous behavior that infiltrated chicago in 1912. The 1964 convention that had republicans questioning the direction of their party. Well also recall those moments that became the retrospective sign posts for a nation in the midst of change. But we begin with, the convention that fell during the most tumultuous year. The convention that devolved into violence both inside and out. The convention that left the Democratic Party mortal
This topic were what do people say to you, is it a little bit weird to be discussing and i said yes i guess it is but i find it fascinating and i think that its a significant assassination certainly affected not only American History that World History and i give a few examples in my introduction about the fact that after all its face it, world war i began because of an assassination and of course we had the fall of the Roman Republic because of an assassination and we have our country itself divided when Abraham Lincoln was of course murdered in 1865 and we are still reverberating from the events around john f. Kennedy in 1963 but its a lot more than looking at Abraham Lincoln and john f. Kennedy. Assassination has been a common theme in history but also in American History and i devoted a chapter to each president who faced a direct assassination attempt both those who were assassinated into those who were wounded and were also president ial candidates which i havent seen anybody els