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 let s 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 court s most important decisions throughout our history. this week, the 1952 steel seizure case. it s 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 nation s steel industry. with american t
assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span three. let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. good evening and welcome to landmark cases. we are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at historic supreme court decisions. tonight s 1954 case of school segregation. brown v. board of education. we are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. my memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. in the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his seven-year-old daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. black parents into peak felt that the day of trying t
the l.a. times, covering the trial for king, and then the o.j. simpson case. i was dazzled by his writing, he was able to take complex events in a courtroom, and summarize it concisely and clearly. he always wrote amazing speed and great delegates. i got to know him, in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering, i was then sharing the elected commission in los angeles, to revise the charter. i saw them that he had this he was amazingly a talented, but also had lots of integrity. at one point the los angeles times was not nearly showing enough tension to try to reform, but according to los angeles weekly, he quit his position at the los angeles time, to protest over this. he put his job on the line, because he believed in the importance of the story. he is then law, and because of that the los angeles times decided to change its approach. i d like to believe that the charter approach, succeeded because of his actions. he was planning some taking some time off
subject. no president had a more significant impact on the supreme court than the, the dr fdr. he appointed eight9 justices during his administration. he helped change american democracy. he got to appoint no justices during his first term. the role of the supreme court has changed over the years and certainly plays a central role in our political process. but headache no mistakes make no mistakes, the court has always been political. joining he today is john at st. johns university and fellow at the robert h. jackson center. he s the biographer of justice [inaudible] and editor of jackson s acclaimed 2003 posthumous book, quote, that man: an insider s portrait of franklin d. roosevelt, the last new deal insider s memoir. also with us, paul blumenthal, former new york times reporter and continues to be a periodic contributor of the times. the author of five books including the believer about the harvard psychiatrist john mack who investigated u if fos ufos and ali
constitution day. what better way to celebrate constitution day than to talk about the supreme court with two outstanding experts on the subject. no president had a more significant impact on the supreme court than the, the dr fdr. he appointed eight9 justices during his administration. he helped change american democracy. he got to appoint no justices during his first term. the role of the supreme court has changed over the years and certainly plays a central role in our political process. but headache no mistakes make no mistakes, the court has always been political. joining he today is john at st. johns university and fellow at the robert h. jackson center. he s the biographer of justice [inaudible] and editor of jackson s acclaimed 2003 posthumous book, quote, that man: an insider s portrait of franklin d. roosevelt, the last new deal insider s memoir. also with us, paul blumenthal, former new york times reporter and continues to be a periodic contributor of the t