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Good evening and welcome to cspan 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. Were 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, im pleased to notice that includes some of the offensive language, used by the defendant in this case. But its part of what we are talking ....
Over here in the front row is a big bouquet of white flowers. Its in the place where john usually sat in the front row of a section that many of the members of the congressional ack caucus held forth, conspired sometimes, plotted, and made progress for the American People. Its appropriate that we have those flowers there. Where john sat. For so many years. John meacham who is writing a book on john lewis told us yesterday on a caucus call that when john was born he was born into a garden. He loved to be in the garden. He loved to be with the chicks, as we know, little chickens. And he loved to see things grow. Loved to see things grow. And he lived his life in that way. He loved to see progress grow, he loved to see love and peace grow. He loved to see ideas grow. And he loved to see a more Perfect Union grow. Many of our colleagues will have many things to say this evening a ....
Good morning to you. I will show viewers the photograph of the girl. Tell us who she is. Senator dorgan the book is entitled the girl in the photograph. A, lived ond tamar an indian reservation. She suffered great tragedy early in her life at age two. She was in a foster home. Very severely party. Unknen her arm, leg were broken and she no medicaloom with attention. A horrific story. To tell you a little bit about how i came to write a book about it, she was feature and a news story about abuse of children at foster homes with a very large photograph in a newspaper about two years after this happened. And i went to the indian reservation when i read this story and raise a lot of hell with everybody. And i met with this girl and her grandfather. And we, you know, we visited. Then i center a couple of christmas gifts. Then her grandfather died and i lost track of her. Ask at the indian reservation, does anybody know what happened . The answer was no. No one knew. And 27 years later i got ....