C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Remembering Justice Thurgood Marshall
1 hour, 6 minutesFour prominent figures in American law including Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan recalled their experiences working as clerks for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. They discussed Marshall's personality, his skill as a storyteller, and his impact on their careers. The Supreme Court Historical Society hosted this event in the Supreme Court chamber.
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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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Reel America: "The Roswell Reports" - 1997
25 minutesIn 1995 and 1997, the U.S. Air Force published reports on the so-called Roswell Incident in 1947 in the New Mexico desert. The alleged sightings of aliens and UFOs have led to numerous books, conferences, documentaries, Hollywood films, and several museums alleging a U.S. government cover-up. This video companion to the Air Force reports argues that experiments involving high altitude balloons, parachute-dropped crash test dummies, NASA test flights, and several Air Force accidents were behind the public sightings.
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Reel America: "Angels in Paradise, Development of the U-2 at Area 51" - 1960
23 minutesAccording to the CIA, this film was made for family members of those working on the U-2 spy plane to inform them about the remote location and difficulty of working at Area 51, a U.S. military installation in Nevada. The film tells the story of the design, manufacture, and testing of the top secret U-2 plane between 1954 and 1960. "Angel" was a code word for the plane, which could fly at over 70,000 feet, and "Paradise" was a nickname for Area 51, which was a harsh desert setting with hot summers and cold winters. It is believed that sightings of the secret U-2 flights in Nevada were the source of many 1950s and 1960s UFO stories.
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Religion in America
2 hours, 1 minuteEdward Widmer, director of the John W. Kluge Center, hosted a panel on the history of religion in America. Panelists discussed the disestablishment of the Anglican church in Virginia during the 1780s, the experience of enslaved African Muslims in the 19th century, and Supreme Court decisions on religious issues after World War II. The Library of Congress hosted this event.
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Reel America: "The Nixon-Lodge Ticket" July 28, 1960 Newsreel
9 minutesThis newsreel is a summary of the 1960 Republican National Convention in Chicago that nominated Vice President Richard Nixon and his running mate Henry Cabot Lodge.
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Presidential Debates: 1960 Presidential Debate - John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon
1 hour, 0 minuteSenator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon met via remote link for the third of four presidential debates prior to the 1960 presidential election. Vice President Nixon was in Los Angeles and Senator Kennedy was in New York. The candidates responded to questions from a panel of correspondents. The debate was moderated by Bill Shadel. Other panelists included Frank McGee, Charles Von Fremd, Douglass Cater, and Roscoe Drummond. The candidates were questioned in turn and given two-and-a-half minutes to respond.
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1960 Presidential Debates
1 hour, 2 minutesWe looked back 60 years at the first-ever televised presidential debates in the fall of 1960 between incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. Barbara Perry, presidential studies director at the University of Virginia's Miller Center, talked about how the debates came to be, the issues, the candidates and how the debates created public expectations for later presidential campaigns. This was a co-production of American History TV and the Washington Journal.
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Presidential Debates: 1960 Presidential Debate - John F. Kennedy & Richard Nixon
59 minutesSenator John F. Kennedy (D-MA) and Vice President Richard Nixon met in New York City for the last of four presidential debates prior to the 1960 presidential election. The debate focused on foreign policy issues, and the candidates debated questions introduced by a panel of correspondents. The debate was moderated by Quincy Howe. Other panelists included Frank Singiser, John Edwards, Walter Cronkite, and John Chancellor. The candidates were given eight minutes for opening statements. Each candidate was questioned in turn and given two-and-a-half minutes to respond. The candidates were given three minutes for closing statements.
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White House Conference on American History
1 hour, 25 minutesOn September 17, 2020, President Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a national commission to promote patriotic education. The same day, a panel discussed the state of history education in the United States. The White House hosted and provided this video.
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Reel America: "The Fires of 1910"
35 minutesThis National Interagency Fire Center film tells the story of a seminal series of wildfires in August, 1910, that burned three million acres in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana, killing 78 firefighters. Known as the "Big Blow-up," the disaster led to increased funding for the fledgling U.S. Forest Service, which President Taft and some western Senators had been threatening to eliminate. Located in Boise, Idaho, the National Interagency Fire Center is comprised of eight federal agencies that combat wildfires, including the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, National Weather Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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History Bookshelf: Jared Cohen, "Accidental Presidents"
1 hour, 5 minutesJared Cohen looked at the eight vice presidents who became president due to the deaths of their predecessors.
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Nazi Persecution & Murder of the Disabled
57 minutesDuring World War II, a secret Nazi "euthanasia" program code-named T4 systematically murdered an estimated 250,000 people with mental and physical disabilities. Most were native-born Germans and many were children. Patricia Heberer Rice of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum detailed the atrocities and perpetrators of T4. She focused on an institute in Hadamar, Germany, one of several facilities used for the mass murder of individuals the Nazis viewed as undesirable. The National World War II Museum in New Orleans hosted this online discussion and provided the video.
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The Civil War: Fort Sumter and First Shots of the Civil War
43 minutesLocated in Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter was still held by Union forces in April 1861, despite South Carolina's secession in 1860. National Park Service historian Mark Maloy described the events of April 12, 1861, when Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. This talk was part of a symposium on "The War in the East" hosted by the "Emerging Civil War" blog.
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Reel America: "Zip Code with the Swingin' Six" - 1967
15 minutesThe 1960s folk band "The Swingin' Six" stars in a U.S. Postal Service public service announcement explaining the zip code system, which was first introduced in 1963. ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
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"Suffrage - Women's Long Battle for the Vote"
1 hour, 0 minuteUCLA history professor emeritus Ellen Carol DuBois discussed her book, "Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote." Professor DuBois provided an overview of the movement from its beginnings in the 1840s to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth hosted this online event and provided the video.
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Lectures in History: Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
1 hour, 20 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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Conversations with Suffragists
40 minutesOn August 18, 1920, women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. To comemerate this anniversary, the National Archives hosted a conversation with interpreters from American Historical Theatre portraying Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Alice Paul as they discussed the history of women's sufferage and the challenges they faced along the way.
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Reel America: "Initial Attack - Fire!" - 1979
17 minutesThis California Department of Forestry film shows why the state is vulnerable to wildfires, and details how firefighting is organized, from citizen and fire tower reports, to an emergency command center, to boots on the ground. "Initial Attack" is a phrase referring to the first actions taken to stop a wildfire in the hours after it is reported in order to prevent a large-scale disaster.
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Reel America: "The Fires of 1910"
31 minutesThis National Interagency Fire Center film tells the story of a seminal series of wildfires in August, 1910, that burned three million acres in the Northern Rocky Mountains of Idaho and Montana, killing 78 firefighters. Known as the "Big Blow-up," the disaster led to increased funding for the fledgling U.S. Forest Service, which President Taft and some western Senators had been threatening to eliminate. Located in Boise, Idaho, the National Interagency Fire Center is comprised of eight federal agencies that combat wildfires, including the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, National Weather Service, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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Reel America: "Little Smokey" - 1953
13 minutesThis U.S. Forest Service film tells the story of the real Smokey Bear, from his rescue during a 1950 forest fire in New Mexico's Capitan Mountains to his life at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. This short fire prevention film is hosted by Hopalong Cassidy, a popular mid-twentieth century Hollywood cowboy played by actor William Boyd.
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Reel America: "Your Fire Department" - 1949
35 minutesThis film describes how the Los Angeles Fire Department is organized, showing its equipment and firefighters at work, and promoting fire prevention and safety.
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End of World War II 75th Anniversary
24 minutesOn September 2, 1945, government and military officials from the Empire of Japan signed surrender documents in a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay, formally bringing the Pacific War and the hostilities of World War II to a close. Japanese Emperor Hirohito had announced Japan's unconditional surrender 18 days earlier on August 15, 1945. To mark the 75th anniversary, the Friends of the National World War II Memorial hosted an online commemorative program, including remarks by Joint Chiefs of Staff chair Gen. Mark Milley and former NBC News anchor and author Tom Brokaw.
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Lectures in History: Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
1 hour, 20 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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Conversations with Suffragists
40 minutesOn August 18, 1920, women won the right to vote with the ratification of the 19th Amendment. To comemerate this anniversary, the National Archives hosted a conversation with interpreters from American Historical Theatre portraying Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth and Alice Paul as they discussed the history of women's sufferage and the challenges they faced along the way.
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History Bookshelf: Jared Cohen, "Accidental Presidents"
1 hour, 5 minutesJared Cohen looked at the eight vice presidents who became president due to the deaths of their predecessors.
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Nazi Persecution & Murder of the Disabled
56 minutesDuring World War II, a secret Nazi "euthanasia" program code-named T4 systematically murdered an estimated 250,000 people with mental and physical disabilities. Most were native-born Germans and many were children. Patricia Heberer Rice of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum detailed the atrocities and perpetrators of T4. She focused on an institute in Hadamar, Germany, one of several facilities used for the mass murder of individuals the Nazis viewed as undesirable. The National World War II Museum in New Orleans hosted this online discussion and provided the video.
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The Civil War: Fort Sumter and First Shots of the Civil War
44 minutesLocated in Charleston harbor, Fort Sumter was still held by Union forces in April 1861, despite South Carolina's secession in 1860. National Park Service historian Mark Maloy described the events of April 12, 1861, when Confederate guns around the harbor opened fire on Fort Sumter. This talk was part of a symposium on "The War in the East" hosted by the "Emerging Civil War" blog.
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Reel America: "Zip Code with the Swingin' Six" - 1967
15 minutesThe 1960s folk band "The Swingin' Six" stars in a U.S. Postal Service public service announcement explaining the zip code system, which was first introduced in 1963. ZIP is an acronym for Zone Improvement Plan.
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"Suffrage - Women's Long Battle for the Vote"
1 hour, 0 minuteUCLA history professor emeritus Ellen Carol DuBois discussed her book, "Suffrage: Women's Long Battle for the Vote." Professor DuBois provided an overview of the movement from its beginnings in the 1840s to the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920. The World Affairs Council of Dallas Fort Worth hosted this online event and provided the video.
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Lectures in History: Johnson & Nixon Supreme Court Nominations
1 hour, 16 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.