C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Oral Histories: James Oscar Jones
2 hours, 1 minuteJames Oscar Jones talked about growing up in rural Arkansas, the influence of his parents' support for civil rights, and his work as the director of the Arkansas Project for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee from 1963 to 1966. This interview is part of an oral history project on the civil rights movement initiated by Congress in 2009, conducted by the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Katz v. United States
1 hour, 32 minutesLaw professors Jeffrey Rosen and Jamil Jaffer talked about the 1967 Supreme Court case Katz v. United States, which concerned Charles Katz, a bookie recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal bets from a telephone booth. The Supreme Court's decision in the case expanded Americans' right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Clips played during the program included Justice Samuel Alito speaking about Katz in his Supreme Court confirmation hearing; portions of oral argument in the case; an interview with Mr. Katz's attorney, Harvey Schneider, in which he described the evolution of his thinking about his oral argument for the case and reaction to the Court's decision; and C-SPAN producer Nate Hurst explaining about his efforts to find out more about Charles Katz.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Brandenburg v. Ohio
1 hour, 33 minutesConstitutional scholars Katie Fallow and Nadine Stossen talked about the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In the case the justices overturned the hate speech conviction of Clarence Brandenburg, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader, on the grounds that the state law violated the First Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer questions and comments. A clip was shown of an interview with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) speaking about her experience working as a lawyer for Clarence Brandenburg. Audio clips from some of the oral argument in the case was played. Another clip featured former Justice Antonin Scalia and Delegate Norton talking about free speech in American society.
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Lectures in History: Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights
48 minutesAmerican University lecturer Aaron Bell taught a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. He described the mid-20th century creation of the Counter Intelligence Program, often called COINTELPRO, and their tracking and infiltrating of domestic political organizations.
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Reel America: "World Charter Signed" - 1945
10 minutesThis United Newsreel documents the founding meeting of the United Nations. The UN Charter was signed on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco by over forty nations.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Katz v. United States
1 hour, 32 minutesLaw professors Jeffrey Rosen and Jamil Jaffer talked about the 1967 Supreme Court case Katz v. United States, which concerned Charles Katz, a bookie recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal bets from a telephone booth. The Supreme Court's decision in the case expanded Americans' right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Clips played during the program included Justice Samuel Alito speaking about Katz in his Supreme Court confirmation hearing; portions of oral argument in the case; an interview with Mr. Katz's attorney, Harvey Schneider, in which he described the evolution of his thinking about his oral argument for the case and reaction to the Court's decision; and C-SPAN producer Nate Hurst explaining about his efforts to find out more about Charles Katz.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Brandenburg v. Ohio
1 hour, 33 minutesConstitutional scholars Katie Fallow and Nadine Stossen talked about the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In the case the justices overturned the hate speech conviction of Clarence Brandenburg, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader, on the grounds that the state law violated the First Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer questions and comments. A clip was shown of an interview with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) speaking about her experience working as a lawyer for Clarence Brandenburg. Audio clips from some of the oral argument in the case was played. Another clip featured former Justice Antonin Scalia and Delegate Norton talking about free speech in American society.
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Lectures in History: Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights
49 minutesAmerican University lecturer Aaron Bell taught a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. He described the mid-20th century creation of the Counter Intelligence Program, often called COINTELPRO, and their tracking and infiltrating of domestic political organizations.
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Reel America: "World Charter Signed" - 1945
10 minutesThis United Newsreel documents the founding meeting of the United Nations. The UN Charter was signed on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco by over forty nations.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Katz v. United States
1 hour, 33 minutesLaw professors Jeffrey Rosen and Jamil Jaffer talked about the 1967 Supreme Court case Katz v. United States, which concerned Charles Katz, a bookie recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal bets from a telephone booth. The Supreme Court's decision in the case expanded Americans' right to privacy under the Fourth Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Clips played during the program included Justice Samuel Alito speaking about Katz in his Supreme Court confirmation hearing; portions of oral argument in the case; an interview with Mr. Katz's attorney, Harvey Schneider, in which he described the evolution of his thinking about his oral argument for the case and reaction to the Court's decision; and C-SPAN producer Nate Hurst explaining about his efforts to find out more about Charles Katz.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Brandenburg v. Ohio
10 minutesConstitutional scholars Katie Fallow and Nadine Stossen talked about the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In the case the justices overturned the hate speech conviction of Clarence Brandenburg, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader, on the grounds that the state law violated the First Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer questions and comments. A clip was shown of an interview with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) speaking about her experience working as a lawyer for Clarence Brandenburg. Audio clips from some of the oral argument in the case was played. Another clip featured former Justice Antonin Scalia and Delegate Norton talking about free speech in American society.
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Senate Majority Leader McConnell Holds News Conference on Coronavirus Economic Stimulus Bill
45 minutesSenate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) holds a press conference to announce the HEALS Act.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Brandenburg v. Ohio
38 minutesConstitutional scholars Katie Fallow and Nadine Stossen talked about the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In the case the justices overturned the hate speech conviction of Clarence Brandenburg, an Ohio Ku Klux Klan leader, on the grounds that the state law violated the First Amendment. The guests also responded to viewer questions and comments. A clip was shown of an interview with Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) speaking about her experience working as a lawyer for Clarence Brandenburg. Audio clips from some of the oral argument in the case was played. Another clip featured former Justice Antonin Scalia and Delegate Norton talking about free speech in American society.
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Lectures in History: Federal Surveillance & Civil Rights
47 minutesAmerican University lecturer Aaron Bell taught a class about privacy laws and federal surveillance of civil rights leaders. He described the mid-20th century creation of the Counter Intelligence Program, often called COINTELPRO, and their tracking and infiltrating of domestic political organizations.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Tinker v. Des Moines
1 hour, 34 minutesMary Beth Tinker and Erik Jaffe talked about Tinker v. Des Moines, the 1969 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled 7-2 that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school. The case began In 1965 when five Des Moines, Iowa, students wore black arm bands to school to protest the war in Vietnam, violating local school policies. Ms. Tinker and Mr. Jaffe also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Stefanie Wager, a social studies consultant for the Iowa Department of Education, spoke by phone about how the case is incorporated into schools in Iowa. Audio from oral argument in the case was played as well as an interview clip with co-petitioner John Tinker. Ms. Tinker is a student free-speech activist and was one of the namesakes in the case. Mr. Jaffe, the chair of the Federalist Society's Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, has been involved in more than 100 cases before the Court, and is a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case New York Times v. United States
1 hour, 34 minutesFloyd Abrams and Theodore Olon talked about the Supreme Court's 1971 decision in New York Times v. United States. The case concerns the New York Times and Washington Post's successful challenge to the Nixon administration for the right to publish what came to be known as the "Pentagon Papers," a classified history of U.S. military activity in Vietnam. Mr. Olson served as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration, and Mr. Abrams was co-counsel to the Times in the case. The guests also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Among the clips shown were a portion of an interview with Times reporter Hedrick Smith in which he explained the paper got the information and how it conducted its work to publish the first story. Also, audio excerpts from oral argument in the case was played as well as part of a phone conversation about the case between President Richard Nixon and former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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Lectures in History: Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
1 hour, 17 minutesBrooklyn College professor KC Johnson taught a class on Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations. He described Johnson's plan to fill the bench with liberal justices and the difficulties he ran into getting them confirmed. He outlined the pushback from conservative senators in the confirmation hearings and concluded with background on some of Nixon's nominations to the court.
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Student Free Speech & Tinker v. Des Moines Anniversary
1 hour, 1 minuteOn February 24, 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not lose their First Amendment rights on school grounds. The court ruled in favor of three Des Moines, Iowa students who were suspended for wearing black arm bands to school to protest the Vietnam War, violating local school policies. American History TV & the Washington Journal marked the 50th anniversary of the court's decision with John Tinker, a co-petitioners in the case, who joined us LIVE to take viewer questions about his experience and to discuss student free speech today.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Tinker v. Des Moines
1 hour, 34 minutesMary Beth Tinker and Erik Jaffe talked about Tinker v. Des Moines, the 1969 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled 7-2 that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school. The case began In 1965 when five Des Moines, Iowa, students wore black arm bands to school to protest the war in Vietnam, violating local school policies. Ms. Tinker and Mr. Jaffe also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Stefanie Wager, a social studies consultant for the Iowa Department of Education, spoke by phone about how the case is incorporated into schools in Iowa. Audio from oral argument in the case was played as well as an interview clip with co-petitioner John Tinker. Ms. Tinker is a student free-speech activist and was one of the namesakes in the case. Mr. Jaffe, the chair of the Federalist Society's Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, has been involved in more than 100 cases before the Court, and is a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case New York Times v. United States
1 hour, 33 minutesFloyd Abrams and Theodore Olon talked about the Supreme Court's 1971 decision in New York Times v. United States. The case concerns the New York Times and Washington Post's successful challenge to the Nixon administration for the right to publish what came to be known as the "Pentagon Papers," a classified history of U.S. military activity in Vietnam. Mr. Olson served as solicitor general in the George W. Bush administration, and Mr. Abrams was co-counsel to the Times in the case. The guests also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Among the clips shown were a portion of an interview with Times reporter Hedrick Smith in which he explained the paper got the information and how it conducted its work to publish the first story. Also, audio excerpts from oral argument in the case was played as well as part of a phone conversation about the case between President Richard Nixon and former FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.
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Lectures in History: Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
1 hour, 18 minutesBrooklyn College professor KC Johnson taught a class on Presidents Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon's Supreme Court nominations. He described Johnson's plan to fill the bench with liberal justices and the difficulties he ran into getting them confirmed. He outlined the pushback from conservative senators in the confirmation hearings and concluded with background on some of Nixon's nominations to the court.
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Student Free Speech & Tinker v. Des Moines Anniversary
1 hour, 3 minutesOn February 24, 1969, the U.S. Supreme Court decided in Tinker v. Des Moines that students do not lose their First Amendment rights on school grounds. The court ruled in favor of three Des Moines, Iowa students who were suspended for wearing black arm bands to school to protest the Vietnam War, violating local school policies. American History TV & the Washington Journal marked the 50th anniversary of the court's decision with John Tinker, a co-petitioners in the case, who joined us LIVE to take viewer questions about his experience and to discuss student free speech today.
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Landmark Cases: Supreme Court Landmark Case Tinker v. Des Moines
1 hour, 32 minutesMary Beth Tinker and Erik Jaffe talked about Tinker v. Des Moines, the 1969 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled 7-2 that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school. The case began In 1965 when five Des Moines, Iowa, students wore black arm bands to school to protest the war in Vietnam, violating local school policies. Ms. Tinker and Mr. Jaffe also responded to viewer phone calls and social media comments. Stefanie Wager, a social studies consultant for the Iowa Department of Education, spoke by phone about how the case is incorporated into schools in Iowa. Audio from oral argument in the case was played as well as an interview clip with co-petitioner John Tinker. Ms. Tinker is a student free-speech activist and was one of the namesakes in the case. Mr. Jaffe, the chair of the Federalist Society's Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, has been involved in more than 100 cases before the Court, and is a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.