American hiamerican histor products are available on the online store. Go to cspan store. Org to check out all of the cspan products. Today marks the 50th anniversary of a Landmark Supreme Court case, tinker v. Des moines. In just a moment well be talking to one of the key players in that case. John tinker will be joining us from des moines, iowa. But first, courtesy of cbs news, Walter Cronkite on the evening news 50 years today. The Supreme Court today endorsed the right of student protests so long as the protest does not disrupt order or interfere with the rights of others. But a dissenting justice hugo black said the ruling begins a revolutionary era of permissiveness fostered by the judiciary. The 72 decision upheld the right of three des moines teenagers to wear black antiwar arm bands to high school. The court said students do not leave their freedoms of speech and expression at the school door. That courtesy of the cbs news and two of the key players in this case, Mary Beth Tin
Today marks the 50th anniversary of a Landmark Supreme Court case. In a moment, we will talk to one of the key players in the case, and john taker is going to join us from des moines, iowa and first courtesy of cbs evening news on the evening news 50 years ago today. The Supreme Court today endorsed the right of student protest so long as the protest does not disrupt order or interfere with the rights others, but a dissenting justice hugo black says it begins the permissive era fostered by the judiciary. A 72 decision upheld des moines teenagers to wear the black arm bands into the school. That is courtesy of cbs evening news and two of the key players mary beth tinker, and johner and joining us from des moines is john tinker. Thank you for being with us. It is great to be with you. And we understand that there is some ice and bad weather in the des moines area, and your sister could not be here, so we appreciate your trekking out to be with us. That is right. We are having quite a sto
Magazine, making woodstock number two when they said it was the greatest peaceful man made event in history of all mankind and it was second to the man landing on the moon. The legacy of Artie Kornfeld is what . That im sitting here with you right now. [ laughter ] 45 years later. Yeah. Im just so thrilled. I hope what i do next year will be my legacy. Yeah . Yeah. Terrific. Yeah. Thank you. My pleasure. American history tv products are now available at the new cspan online store. Go to cspan store. Org to see whats new for American History tv and check out all of the cspan products. Today marx the 50th anniversary of a Landmark Supreme Court case, tinker v. Des moines. In just a moment well be talking to one of the key players in that case. John tinker will be joining us from des moines, iowa, but first, courtesy of cbs news walter cronkite, the evening news 50 years ago today. The Supreme Court today endorsed the right of student protests so long as the protests does not disrupt orde
Bill green became and implemented the first deadly force policy, said a lot of interesting things about santa claus. City council is the worst legislative body in the free world. We always had a debate that limited the free world the world emphasized it. I might add that his son william j green, a city councilman, helped fight back wholesale closers of the free library of branches. Without further into it is my privilege to welcome bill green. [applause] thank you for that introduction. Phil goldsmith and i are good friends, he has done more for the city than you might imagine, he was managing director, ran schools, the park, all the institutions and more, a pulitzer prizewinning reporter. [applause] thanks again. I am pleased to be part of this presentation as you will find out tonight, some of the most memorable days and happiest days of my life are the times i spent with Robert Kennedy. Let me begin by offering praise for larry tye and this book Bobby Kennedy the making of a liberal
His father was instrumental in the election of president john f. Kennedy. Bill green served as a congressman in 1976, during which time he took on the Oil Companies and helped defeat the Oil Depletion allowance. He became the meir of philadelphia the mayor of philadelphia and i am pleased to say i was in his administration. He took on on a lot of special interests, and actually implemented the first deadly force policy in the united states. He also said a lot of interesting things i wont repeat here. About the worst legislative body in the free world. [laughter] we always had a debate i might also add that his son helped fight back the wholesale closers of the the library branches. Without further ado is made privilege to welcome bill green. [applause] we were great friends and worked together ohad workedtogether oni was the mayor and has done more for the city than you could imagine. He ran the schools from the park, he headed all of those institutions and more and was a Pulitzer Priz