In the National Archives center for legislative archives for their research. They hosted the event and provided the video. Showcasing some of the Significant Research that is being done. Todays talk is the eighth in the calendar year. We have one more in november. Well hear from charles stewart, Political Science professor at m. I. T. Long time friend and supporter of this center who well talk about his coauthored book with wendy shiller. That ought to be a good talk. I have been looking forward to hosting todays guest. Since i first saw her in action at the history conference chairing a panel that included who we heard from at the researcher talk last december and that will include karl henry, tax historian. Who is in the audience today. Thank you for attending. And well hear from karl henry soon. Molly is an associate professor of history in Washington University and received her ph. D. Degree from the university of michigan. She is the author of the highly regarded tax and spend. Sh
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement produs. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. President obama today once again appealed for calm following the news that a new york doctor who treated ebola patients in africa has been hospitalized with the disease himself. We have to be guided by the facts, not fear. Yesterday, new yorkers showed us the way. They did what they do every day jumping on buses, riding the subway, crowding into elevators, heading into work, gathering in parks. That spirit, that determination to carry on is part of what makes new york one of the greatest cities in the world. Sreenivasan in new jersey today, a 30yearold nurse
Corporate funding is provided by mutual of america designing customized individual and Group Retirement products. Thats why we are your retirement company. Additional support is provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios in Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening. Thanks for joining us. President obama today once again appealed for calm following the news that a new york doctor who treated ebola patients in africa has been hospitalized with the disease himself. We have to be guided by the facts, not fear. Yesterday, new yorkers showed us the way. They did what they do every day jumping on buses, riding the subway, crowding into elevators, heading into work, gathering in parks. That spirit, that determination to carry on is part of what makes new york one of the greatest cities in the world. Sreenivasan in new jersey today, a 30yearold nur
Nine hundred sixty eight americas last summer of hope. A funeral train rolled slowly through the long summer afternoon. Crowds lined the tracks hoping to catch a glimpse as the casket of Robert Francis kennedy was taken to washington. The poor. Despondent the devout. Widows whose husbands a died in vietnam. Says neighborhood still small. And the young. Those dreams have been shattered too soon. Into national cemetery. Two brothers gunned down just five years apart reunited. President john f. Kennedys murder in dallas on november twenty second one thousand nine hundred sixty three that ended the age of american innocence and plunged the country into violence and social turmoil. At his brothers funeral Bobby Kennedy was consumed by remorse and guilt. And as he reflected on the political life he had shared with john he asked himself who had killed his brother and why. John and Bobby Kennedy had made numerous sentiments including maffia bosses f. B. I. Director j. Edgar hoover fidel castro