C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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FCC Chair Ajit Pai and Fellow Commissioners Testify Before House Subcommittee
2 hours, 55 minutesFederal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Ajit Pai, along with his fellow commissioners, testified before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology. The five FCC commissioners talked about a wide range of topics, including 5G wireless development, rural broadband access, spectrum allocation, the digital divide and communications for emergency services. Committee members also asked the commissioners about a recent FCC report that found that coverage data submitted to the FCC by a number of wireless carriers was not accurate, and asked what next steps the commission could take in response.
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Former Trump Administration Officials on National Security
44 minutesFormer Trump administration national security officials discussed their experiences in the administration. They talked about what it was like to serve under President Trump, their career background and other national security issues.
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Reel America: "Fallen Eagle" - 1950
19 minutesThis Lorillard Tobacco Company film profiles the Sioux people of the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota. According to a 1952 advertising magazine, the company featured a Native American theme to highlight their Old Gold cigarette brand's wooden Indian trademark, and to pay tribute to the Native American origins of tobacco. Lorillard, founded in 1760, was purchased by Reynolds American in 2015. This 1950 documentary is part of the Library of Congress online collection of the National Film Preservation Foundation. Portions of the original audio track in this film are damaged, so there are occasional gaps in the sound.
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Reel America: "Winter Count" - 1975
8 minutesA "winter count" is a Plains Indian tradition of recording a tribe's history with symbols drawn on buffalo hide or other material. In this short film funded by the U.S. Information Agency, Lydia Fire Thunder Bluebird, an Oglala Sioux woman, uses her great uncle's winter count to explain the tradition and the history of her people.
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Michigan History Museum
12 minutesThe Michigan History Center tells the story of the state's growth from its indigenous peoples to the success of Detroit's auto industry. Community Engagement Director Tobi Voigt gave a tour of the museum and explained how the state's natural resources helped build Michigan's economic success.
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Justice Joseph Bradley & the Fourteenth Amendment
1 hour, 19 minutesUniversity of Michigan politics professor Pamela Brandwein discusses Justice Bradley's dissent in the "Slaughter-house Cases," which concerned New Orleans butchers' right to practice their trade and a regulatory law by the Louisiana state legislature. She explains how Bradley's broad interpretation of protections conferred by the Fourteenth Amendment influenced later landmark cases. This event is part of a lecture series of the Supreme Court Historical Society on dissent in the Supreme Court.
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History of the Black Hills
16 minutesConsidered sacred by many Native Americans, South Dakota's Black Hills have long been the source of contention over land claims between tribes and the U.S. government, as well as the controversial issue of carving into the mountains at Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial. We traveled there to hear about the history of and the current situation in the Black Hills with Native Americans, historians, and representatives at both Mount Rushmore and the Crazy Horse Memorial .
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Oral Histories: Hillary Clinton on Nixon Impeachment Inquiry
45 minutesHillary Rodham Clinton discussed her time as a lawyer on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee during the impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon in 1974. The interview is from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum oral history collection, and was conducted by former library director Timothy Naftali on July 9, 2018.
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Oral Histories: William Weld
32 minutesBill Weld recalled his time as a lawyer on the staff of the House Judiciary Committee impeachment inquiry of President Richard Nixon. The interview is from the Richard Nixon Presidential Library oral history collection.
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Paleontology in Montana
18 minutesThe Museum of the Rockies, a Smithsonian Affiliate, features many paleontological discoveries made in Montana. Amy Atwater, Paleontology Collections Manager, showed some of the fossilized dinosaur bones on display, including a Tyrannosaurus Rex.
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Remembering George Washington
1 hour, 5 minutesMatthew Costello talked about his new book "The Property of the Nation: George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President." He discussed the ways that Americans remembered and celebrated George Washington in the 19th century. And he talked about how the freed and enslaved people on Washington's Mount Vernon estate helped shape the historical narrative about the first president. Mr. Costello is a historian at the White House Historical Association, which hosted this event.
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American Aid in Post-World War I Europe, 1919-1924
54 minutesWorld War I scholar Tammy Proctor gave an illustrated talk titled: "The Myth of Isolation: American Intervention in Postwar Europe, 1919 - 1924." This presentation was part of the National World War I Museum and Memorial's annual symposium.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf 75th Anniversary
2 hours, 11 minutesSix panelists who have studied the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf participated in a 75th anniversary discussion hosted by the Naval Historical Foundation. Following the panel, retired admiral James Winnefeld, discussed the legacy of the battle. Fought in waters around the Philippines, the Battle of Leyte Gulf is considered the largest naval battle in history, and was a decisive victory over the Japanese Imperial Navy for the United States and her allies.
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History Bookshelf: Jeffrey Haas, "The Assassination of Fred Hampton
2 hours, 1 minuteJeffrey Haas talked about his book "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther." On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was shot dead in his bed during a police raid in which Mark Clark was also killed. In his book Jeffrey Haas recounts how he and Flint Taylor, his law partner, attempted to prove that Fred Hampton's death was not self-defense, as the police advocates claimed, but was premeditated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago police department.
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The Civil War: 1864 Confederate Maryland Campaign
53 minutesAuthor Marc Leepson discussed Confederate General Jubal Early's summer 1864 campaign into Maryland and the outskirts of Washington, D.C. The offensive was part of a larger strategy by General Robert E. Lee to draw the Union Army's attention and resources away from targeting the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. The Mosby Heritage Area Association hosted the event.
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Norman Mineta's Experiences Living in a World War II Japanese Internment Camp
1 hour, 6 minutesAndrea Warren talked about her book, "Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II." Mr. Mineta joined the discussion to share his experiences before, during and after his time at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, located in Wyoming. The Library of Congress hosted this event.
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Lectures in History: Public Opinion, Radio & Entry into World War II
1 hour, 5 minutesWofford College professor Mark Byrnes taught a class about U.S. public opinion, the rise of radio as a national media, and the debate about whether to enter World War II. He outlined the arguments both for and against intervention and used radio clips to demonstrate the role it played in shaping American views and foreign policy.
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A Life in Military and Foreign Service
54 minutesRobert Traister described his career serving in the U.S. Army and for the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Vietnam War. He served as province senior adviser in Sa Dec, South Vietnam, working with Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) teams 60 and 65, who hosted this event. MACV teams were small groups of Americans often assigned to remote areas and supported only by Vietnamese forces.
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Reel America: "Europe - Two Decades" - 1965
50 minutesThis film documents the first two decades in Europe after World War II and the many confrontations between nations aligned with the Soviet Union and western European countries. The film details the Marshall Plan, origins of the Cold War, Soviet influence in Eastern Europe, the Berlin Airlift, and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Produced by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the film argues that NATO is vital for preventing another war in Europe.
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World War I, African Americans & Civil Rights
1 hour, 11 minutesThe National Museum of African American History and Culture recently released a book called " We Return Fighting: World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity." In conjunction, the museum also has a temporary exhibit focusing on African Americans during the war. Museum curator and book contributor Krewasky Salter joined Howard University professor Greg Carr to talk about the collection of essays that inspired the book and exhibit. The two also discussed how the African American experience during what was then called "the Great War" served as a catalyst for the civil rights movement.
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Lectures in History: Public Opinion, Radio & Entry into World War II
1 hour, 5 minutesWofford College professor Mark Byrnes taught a class about U.S. public opinion, the rise of radio as a national media, and the debate about whether to enter World War II. He outlined the arguments both for and against intervention and used radio clips to demonstrate the role it played in shaping American views and foreign policy.
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A Life in Military and Foreign Service
50 minutesRobert Traister described his career serving in the U.S. Army and for the U.S. Agency for International Development during the Vietnam War. He served as province senior adviser in Sa Dec, South Vietnam, working with Military Assistance Command Vietnam (MACV) teams 60 and 65, who hosted this event. MACV teams were small groups of Americans often assigned to remote areas and supported only by Vietnamese forces.
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Tournament of Roses Parade
15 minutesThe Tournament of Roses Parade is one of Pasadena's oldest and most celebrated traditions. What began as way to promote the new city's mild winters and beautiful scenery has turned into an event seen by millions and a major economic boost for the Southern California region. David Eads, executive director, and Laura Farber, executive committee president, shared this piece of Pasadena's history with us.
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History Bookshelf: Jeffrey Haas, "The Assassination of Fred Hampton
2 hours, 0 minuteJeffrey Haas talked about his book "The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther." On December 4, 1969, Fred Hampton, the 21-year-old chairman of the Illinois Black Panther Party, was shot dead in his bed during a police raid in which Mark Clark was also killed. In his book Jeffrey Haas recounts how he and Flint Taylor, his law partner, attempted to prove that Fred Hampton's death was not self-defense, as the police advocates claimed, but was premeditated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Chicago police department.
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Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site
20 minutesBuilt in 1872, the Wyoming Territorial Prison was a federal government prison near Laramie, Wyoming. It became a symbol of law and order during the turmoil of the wild west. For 30 years it held violent and dangerous outlaws including the notorious Butch Cassidy. Superintendent Deborah Cease gave a tour of the site and shared stories of people from the Prison's past.
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Norman Mineta's Experiences Living in a World War II Japanese Internment Camp
1 hour, 8 minutesAndrea Warren talked about her book, "Enemy Child: The Story of Norman Mineta, a Boy Imprisoned in a Japanese American Internment Camp During World War II." Mr. Mineta joined the discussion to share his experiences before, during and after his time at the Heart Mountain War Relocation Center, located in Wyoming. The Library of Congress hosted this event.
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Col. James M. Schoonmaker
12 minutesThe lake freighter Col. James M. Schoonmaker launched in 1911. At the time, it was the largest ship on the Great Lakes. Christopher Gillcrist, Executive Director at the National Museum of the Great Lakes, took us on a tour of the 617 foot-long ship that carried materials like coal, steel and grain across the Great Lakes.
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Battle of Leyte Gulf 75th Anniversary
2 hours, 5 minutesSix panelists who have studied the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf participated in a 75th anniversary discussion hosted by the Naval Historical Foundation. Following the panel, retired admiral James Winnefeld, discussed the legacy of the battle. Fought in waters around the Philippines, the Battle of Leyte Gulf is considered the largest naval battle in history, and was a decisive victory over the Japanese Imperial Navy for the United States and her allies.