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next the united states world war one centennial commission marks the opening of the national world war i memorial in washington dc with a video tribute and flag-raising ceremony to honor the 4.7 million americans who served during the war the memorial opened to the public on april 16th. it you for more than two centuries the stars and stripes has flown over the land of the free. and the home of the brave we know that it s flying around the world today everywhere us forces are stationed protecting all of us. there are nuns still alive who saw it flying above the american doughboys in places like bella wood cantini and the muse are gone. now it s our job to keep faith with those brave men and women who came before us. in less than two years some 4.7 million americans would join the armed forces during world war one. many of them volunteers and just six months of decisive combat. more would die than in a decade of war and korea and vietnam combined. with a higher casualty ....
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as person having being before the honorable supreme court of the united states are to draw near and give their attention. the special history series, produced in partnership with the national constitution center. exploring the human stories, and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic [ decisions. mr. chief justice, and may it please the court quite obvious in much of our most famous decisions are the ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. let s go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together, because they believe in a rule of law. good evening. welcome to c-span s landmark cases. this 1969 case of the warren court unanimously handed down with you most expansive interpretations ever of our first amendment guarantees to fry speech and assembly. what are the very basics? vandenberg was the leader of the ku klux klan in cincinnati, ohio, who held ....
good evening and welcome to c-span landmark cases, tonight bundaberg versus ohio. which was unanimously handed down to free speech and assembly, one of the very basics of this case? brendan burke was the leader of the ku klux klan and ohio, who held a rally for his small group of members and he they filmed, it unaired it on tv. showing him in a hood, clan regalia in front of a burning cross. or brandishing guns and making racist statements about the jews and blacks. and he was committed, and sentenced wanted ten years under ohio statute. as a crime to advocate violence. we re going to dig into the particulars of this case, and learn about its impact in our society. but as we get started we have two pieces of media for you, we are going to listen to a little bit of the oral argument in the case, and you will hear some of the particulars of this case, i m pleased to notice that includes some of the offensive language, used by the defendant in this case. but it s part of ....
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