What turned up the temperature? what brought this coward to the boiling point? we re in an environment now where there s the expectation of grievance and hate for political gain. and we need to understand the wide reach of who s responsible for this. i think that s the first thing. the second thing is that we have to tell ourselves about your story about the march on washington. this extraordinary moment of august 28th 1963, is actually claimed by political violence. not only that extraordinary march in may of 1963, and in birmingham, where we saw bull connor bring up the fire hoses and the dogs, those dogs and fire hoses were directed towards children, amen. that was a children s march. and we think about the courage of who shot down on june 11th, right? when we think about that moment and we think about george wallace on june 11th, standing in front of the university of alabama, declaring his
Saw play out in jacksonville, florida. your reaction? yeah, i appreciate his compliments. i was thinking about his formulation of the apparatus as eight, and i m thinking about the adjacent rhetoric of hate. what turned up the temperature? what brought this coward to the boiling point? we re in an environment now where there s the expectation of grievance and hate for political gain. and we need to understand the wide reach of who s responsible for this. i think that s the first thing. the second thing is that we have to tell ourselves about your story about the march on washington. this extraordinary moment of august 28th 1963, is actually claimed by political violence. not only that extraordinary march in may of 1963, and in birmingham, where we saw bull connor bring up the fire hoses and the dogs, those dogs and fire hoses were directed towards children, amen. that was a children s march.
Important relationship is michael beschloss, an excellent historian, just the person i want to talk with about this. hi. thank you for being here. i want to start you with talking about johnson s evolution. typical southern congressman to a champion of civil rights? well, johnson when he ran for the senate in 1948 made one or more speeches that almost sounded white see prem sist, voted against civil rights legislation until the late 1950s. once he was vice president, he wanted to be a national figure. and the moment where things really changed was may of 1963, vice president johnson went to gettysburg for the 100th anniversary and gave a speech that was actually more activist on civil rights than john kennedy was and that s when martin luther king and the people around him knew johnson was someone who even as vice president, might turn out to be very helpful. obviously that relationship deteriorated at the point where we got to voietnam but talk abot
What was it that lbj disagreed with? how different was he as a president than kennedy? what he is doing is make it clear if anything he is more pro civil rights than kennedy is. also in may, the spring or actually the spring or summer in may of 1963, he gave a speech not cleared by the white house. it was way out front of what kennedy was saying about civil rights. it was like when joe biden came out for marriage equality before it made kennedy look as strong as he should be. the big reservation that johnson had was he was a picasso in dealing with congress. john kennedy may have been a great president. he was almost a finger painter compared to johnson.
Assassination before the one in dallas. oswald told his wife he had done it. a bullet fired from the same that oswald used to kill the president strikes the general window frame as he sat in his home office. bull et fragments strike his ar. i m not a communist. are you a marxist? i have studied the philosophy. may of 1963 oswald continues his pattern of treason. he writes to a pro-castro organization here in new york called the fair play for cuba committee and says he wants to set up a chapter in new orleans. the leaders write back and say that s not a good idea.