C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Presidents & Their CIA Directors
2 hours, 6 minutesCIA chief historian David Robarge talked about the evolving nature of the relationship between presidents and their CIA directors, and how it is influenced by the president's needs and interests. One CIA director -- George H.W. Bush, who was appointed by Gerald Ford -- later became president himself. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this program.
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Camp David
1 hour, 0 minuteCamp David insiders offered their recollections of the presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains. It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt who first used the hideaway, and who set the precedent for hosting dignitaries there when he invited British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to be his guest. The George W. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas hosted this hour-long event. Former President Bush opened the program with his own Camp David memories.
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FDA Holds an Open Meeting on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
2 hours, 39 minutesThe Food & Drug Administration hosts a virtual open meeting to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
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Aron J. Hall
22 minutesThe Food & Drug Administration hosted a virtual open meeting to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA). Aron J. Hall provided the COVID-19 epidemiology update.
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FDA Holds an Open Meeting on the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine
5 hours, 43 minutesThe Food & Drug Administration hosts a virtual open meeting to discuss the COVID-19 vaccine and Emergency Use Authorization (EUA).
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Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid Oral Argument
1 hour, 30 minutesThe Supreme Court heard oral argument in Facebook, Inc. v. Duguid, a case stemming from the social media company's new log-in text alerts to users and whether they are unlawful under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA). Noah Duguid, who does not have a Facebook account, filed the suit after he received text alerts from Facebook regarding new log-in attempts. He accused the social media giant of violating the Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 and its limit on the use of automated telephone dialing systems (ATDS). Facebook argues its text notification system is not an ATDS. The justices have through June 2021 to issue a ruling.
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Aspen Institute Discussion on Vaccine Development & Distriibution
49 minutesDr. Nancy Messonnier, Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, discussed the COVID-19 vaccine from the science behind its creation to addressing the public's concerns over taking the vaccine. She explained how the vaccine works in the body and the possible side effects. The Aspen Institute hosted this 45-minute Q & A session. Dr. Messonnier also talked about support for health care workers during this time, reminding people the best thing to do is to wear a mask, practice social distancing and "stay at home."
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Reel America: "Man Against Microbe" - 1932
13 minutesThis Metropolitan Life insurance Company film -- part of a health education series -- sketches 300 years of research in public health and dramatizes discoveries by notable scientists. Beginning with a 1665 plague outbreak, the film ends expressing hope that science might one day conquer polio and cancer. This film is from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Library of Congress "Online Screening Room."
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Reel America: "A Special Report on Polio" - 1955
17 minutesThis June 1955 broadcast by the radio and television networks in cooperation with the U.S. Public Health Service hoped to dispel fears about the safety of the new Salk vaccine. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby - who resigned a month later - introduces Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, who details efforts to insure the vaccine's safety. In May of 1955, the Surgeon General of the United States temporarily shut down the distribution of the Salk vaccine. In what is known as the "Cutter Incident," about 200,000 children had received a defective vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories resulting in 40,000 cases of polio, 200 children with paralysis and 10 deaths. The problem led to congressional hearings, reforms, and the resignations of the National Institutes of Health director and Secretary Hobby. This film is part of the Library of Congress motion picture collections.
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Reel America: "Babies and Breadwinners - A Documentation of the 1961 Polio Vaccination Campaign"
27 minutesProduced by the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service, this film documents the effort to immunize every citizen living in Columbus, Georgia. In 1961 the polio vaccine had been in existence for more than six years, but many at-risk members of this Georgia population had not yet been immunized. The community-wide effort is detailed from planning and surveys to vaccination shots.
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Reel America: " Miracle in Tonga" - 1965
18 minutesThis film tells the story of a group of CDC doctors who traveled to the island nation of Tonga to immunize the population against smallpox using a new jet injection gun. The population of approximately 70,000 had no experience with smallpox epidemics, but in the 1960s, it was feared that increased world travel and tourism put the population at risk. Produced by the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, this film comes to us courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
27 minutesThis film chronicles the Public Health Service from its 1798 authorization as the Marine Hospital Service to its fight against AIDS in the 1990s. The U.S. Public Health Service is headed by the Surgeon General, and falls under the authority of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which produced this program to mark the service's bicentennial.
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Disease & 19th Century Slave Trade
1 hour, 13 minutesHistorian Manuel Barcia, author of, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" discussed his book with Yale historian David Blight. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University hosted this event and provided the video.
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1918 Flu Pandemic
1 hour, 43 minutesThe 1918 flu pandemic altered American life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful, college classes were held outside, sports were cancelled, masks were challenged as un-American and fines imposed on those who refused to wear them. Christopher McKnight Nichols recounted how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs Oregon State University's Center for the Humanities. The Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas hosted this event and provided the video.
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Reel America: "Man Against Microbe" - 1932
14 minutesThis Metropolitan Life insurance Company film -- part of a health education series -- sketches 300 years of research in public health and dramatizes discoveries by notable scientists. Beginning with a 1665 plague outbreak, the film ends expressing hope that science might one day conquer polio and cancer. This film is from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Library of Congress "Online Screening Room."
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Reel America: "A Special Report on Polio" - 1955
17 minutesThis June 1955 broadcast by the radio and television networks in cooperation with the U.S. Public Health Service hoped to dispel fears about the safety of the new Salk vaccine. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby - who resigned a month later - introduces Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, who details efforts to insure the vaccine's safety. In May of 1955, the Surgeon General of the United States temporarily shut down the distribution of the Salk vaccine. In what is known as the "Cutter Incident," about 200,000 children had received a defective vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories resulting in 40,000 cases of polio, 200 children with paralysis and 10 deaths. The problem led to congressional hearings, reforms, and the resignations of the National Institutes of Health director and Secretary Hobby. This film is part of the Library of Congress motion picture collections.
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Reel America: "Babies and Breadwinners - A Documentation of the 1961 Polio Vaccination Campaign"
26 minutesProduced by the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service, this film documents the effort to immunize every citizen living in Columbus, Georgia. In 1961 the polio vaccine had been in existence for more than six years, but many at-risk members of this Georgia population had not yet been immunized. The community-wide effort is detailed from planning and surveys to vaccination shots.
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Reel America: " Miracle in Tonga" - 1965
19 minutesThis film tells the story of a group of CDC doctors who traveled to the island nation of Tonga to immunize the population against smallpox using a new jet injection gun. The population of approximately 70,000 had no experience with smallpox epidemics, but in the 1960s, it was feared that increased world travel and tourism put the population at risk. Produced by the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, this film comes to us courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
27 minutesThis film chronicles the Public Health Service from its 1798 authorization as the Marine Hospital Service to its fight against AIDS in the 1990s. The U.S. Public Health Service is headed by the Surgeon General, and falls under the authority of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which produced this program to mark the service's bicentennial.
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Disease & 19th Century Slave Trade
1 hour, 12 minutesHistorian Manuel Barcia, author of, "The Yellow Demon of Fever: Fighting Disease in the Nineteenth-Century Transatlantic Slave Trade" discussed his book with Yale historian David Blight. The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at the MacMillan Center at Yale University hosted this event and provided the video.
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1918 Flu Pandemic
1 hour, 43 minutesThe 1918 flu pandemic altered American life in ways that are familiar to those living through the 2020 coronavirus pandemic. Conflicting information left people wary and fearful, college classes were held outside, sports were cancelled, masks were challenged as un-American and fines imposed on those who refused to wear them. Christopher McKnight Nichols recounted how the country experienced the events of a century ago and the lessons we might learn. He directs Oregon State University's Center for the Humanities. The Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas hosted this event and provided the video.
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Reel America: "Man Against Microbe" - 1932
14 minutesThis Metropolitan Life insurance Company film -- part of a health education series -- sketches 300 years of research in public health and dramatizes discoveries by notable scientists. Beginning with a 1665 plague outbreak, the film ends expressing hope that science might one day conquer polio and cancer. This film is from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Library of Congress "Online Screening Room."
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Reel America: "A Special Report on Polio" - 1955
17 minutesThis June 1955 broadcast by the radio and television networks in cooperation with the U.S. Public Health Service hoped to dispel fears about the safety of the new Salk vaccine. U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare Secretary Oveta Culp Hobby - who resigned a month later - introduces Surgeon General Leonard Scheele, who details efforts to insure the vaccine's safety. In May of 1955, the Surgeon General of the United States temporarily shut down the distribution of the Salk vaccine. In what is known as the "Cutter Incident," about 200,000 children had received a defective vaccine manufactured by Cutter Laboratories resulting in 40,000 cases of polio, 200 children with paralysis and 10 deaths. The problem led to congressional hearings, reforms, and the resignations of the National Institutes of Health director and Secretary Hobby. This film is part of the Library of Congress motion picture collections.
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Reel America: "Babies and Breadwinners - A Documentation of the 1961 Polio Vaccination Campaign"
26 minutesProduced by the Communicable Disease Center of the U.S. Public Health Service, this film documents the effort to immunize every citizen living in Columbus, Georgia. In 1961 the polio vaccine had been in existence for more than six years, but many at-risk members of this Georgia population had not yet been immunized. The community-wide effort is detailed from planning and surveys to vaccination shots.
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Reel America: " Miracle in Tonga" - 1965
19 minutesThis film tells the story of a group of CDC doctors who traveled to the island nation of Tonga to immunize the population against smallpox using a new jet injection gun. The population of approximately 70,000 had no experience with smallpox epidemics, but in the 1960s, it was feared that increased world travel and tourism put the population at risk. Produced by the Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, this film comes to us courtesy of the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
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Reel America: "Plagues and Politics - The Story of the United States Public Health Service" - 1998
25 minutesThis film chronicles the Public Health Service from its 1798 authorization as the Marine Hospital Service to its fight against AIDS in the 1990s. The U.S. Public Health Service is headed by the Surgeon General, and falls under the authority of the U.S. Health and Human Services Department, which produced this program to mark the service's bicentennial.