In cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Quite often, and many of our most famous decisions, there once the court took that were quite unpopular. You lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it beans to live in a society of 310 different people who have helped stick together, because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases, our series that explores the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most important decisions throughout our history. This week, the 1952 steel seizure case. Its officially known as youngstown steel and two Company Versus soy or. To get us started, we will start with a piece of vintage film from a documentary. It features president terri truman on april 8th 1952 as he announces to the nation his seizure of the nations Steel Industry. With american troops facing the enemy
Audience feel free to follow along on twitter using the hashtag press club. For our cspan and public radio audiences please be aware in our audience today are members of the general public. Any applause or reaction you may here is not necessarily a reaction of the working press. I would like to introduce our head table. Please hold your applause until each head table member has been introduced. Head table participants, please stand up when i say your name. We have jamaal, senior staff writer in Higher Education. We have gerri weller, former us representative from the 11th district and president of the Illinois State society in washington. We have a supervisor for ap radio in washington dc. We have star scholar, graduate of the Harry Truman College in chicago and northwestern student planning to study neuroscience. Catherine, washington correspondent for the chicago tribune. Arm and oh rodriguez, president of the sarah good stem academy. We have lisa matthews, Vice President of media re
American University History kuznick teaches a class on the american bomb. He argues there are other ways that could have been used to end the war in the pacific instead of dropping the atomic bombs. This class is about an hour and 15 minutes. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2016] that is in nuclear reactors, that is in hospitals, in universities. Esearch centers. About the spread of these materials and the pobet of dirty bombs and terrorists getting a hold of this, to begin with, that is a small part of the Nuclear Material that is out there. Most of the Nuclear Material is in the weapons programs and this gathering is not going to be dealing with weapons issues. Obama made a speech in prague. In 2009, he said we need nuclear abolition. He said the United States has got to lead that effort because the United States is the only country that has ever used Nuclear Weapons and warfare against another country. And thats where we want to begin today. On the one hand there