C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Public Affairs Events
7 hours, 1 minutePublic affairs events, congressional hearings, speeches, and interviews.
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American Artifacts: Mobile, Alabama African American Heritage Trail - Part 1
48 minutesAmerican History TV joined tour guide Eric Finley to learn about the early history of Mobile, Alabama, and to visit Africatown, a National Historic Landmark neighborhood north of the city founded by former slaves who were captives on the ship Clotilda. Recently discovered under the mud of the Mobile River, the Clotilda smuggled approximately 110 kidnapped West Africans to Mobile in 1860. This is part one of a two-part tour.
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Catherine Clinton, "Confederate Statues and Memorialization"
11 minutesAuthor Catherine Clinton talked about her book, "Confederate Statues and Memorialization".
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Reel America: "Man Against Microbe" - 1932
11 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
16 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
17 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
26 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, 11 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, 41 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
12 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
16 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"
25 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
17 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
26 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, 10 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, 42 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
25 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
26 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, 11 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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Al Gore Concession Speech
7 minutesIn the 2000 presidential election, Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore in one of the most highly contested races in U.S. history. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush. This is Vice President Gore's concession speech from December 13, 2000. It took place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
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Gov. George W. Bush Victory Speech
11 minutesIn the 2000 presidential election, Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore in one of the most highly contested races in U.S. history. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush. This is President-elect Bush's victory speech from December 13, 2000. It took place in the Texas House of Representatives chamber in Austin.
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Q&A: David Savage, 20th Anniversary of Bush v. Gore
1 hour, 3 minutesLongtime Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage talked about the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case which decided the presidential election that year. He also talked about why it happened and the court cases that led up to Bush v. Gore. Mr. Savage also discussed election 2020 and the legal challenges that the Trump campaign filed after election day.
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Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Decision
1 hour, 30 minutesLegal experts discuss the 2000 Bush v. Gore U.S. Supreme Court case, including the decision's merits, the precedents it set, and whether the ruling was driven by partisan politics. The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy hosted this event.
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Reel America: "The Judicial Power" - 1960
27 minutesThis film produced for international audiences by the U.S. Information Agency examines the U.S. Supreme Court's historic role as interpreter of the Constitution and explains how this role has evolved. The film profiles several 1960-era justices, including Chief Justice Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, and Hugo Black. The host is lawyer Joseph Welch, who served as U.S. Army chief counsel during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.
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Reel America: "The Constitution - Whose Interpretation?" - 1959
32 minutesThis film documents President Franklin D. Roosevelt's effort to prevent the Supreme Court from repealing New Deal laws and programs. Part of a series titled "Decision: The Constitution in Action," this program highlights FDR's so-called "court-packing" plan to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court, the evolving role of the Supreme Court, and the history of judicial review.
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Reel America: "The Constitution and Censorship" - 1957
30 minutesThis Columbia University film uses two U.S. Supreme Court free speech cases to document the history of censorship law. The first case deals with the constitutionality of New York's film censorship system after screenings of a popular Italian film are halted by authorities. The second case centers on freedom of speech and religion after Connecticut authorities object to a Jehovah's Witness going door to door using a record player to broadcast an evangelical talk. The film also covers the history of regulating cinema, and shows many scenes from early films.
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Reel America: "Amistad - The Federal Courts & the Challenge to Slavery" - 2002
29 minutesThis documentary details the complicated legal battle that resulted after an 1839 slave ship mutiny in the Caribbean that landed the ship in Connecticut, and eventually landed the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It is produced by the Federal Judicial Center, the research and education agency of the U.S. judicial branch. Part of its mission is developing educational programs about the history of the U.S. federal courts.
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Al Gore Concession Speech
6 minutesIn the 2000 presidential election, Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore in one of the most highly contested races in U.S. history. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush. This is Vice President Gore's concession speech from December 13, 2000. It took place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
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Gov. George W. Bush Victory Speech
12 minutesIn the 2000 presidential election, Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore in one of the most highly contested races in U.S. history. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush. This is President-elect Bush's victory speech from December 13, 2000. It took place in the Texas House of Representatives chamber in Austin.
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Q&A: David Savage, 20th Anniversary of Bush v. Gore
1 hour, 2 minutesLongtime Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage talked about the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case which decided the presidential election that year. He also talked about why it happened and the court cases that led up to Bush v. Gore. Mr. Savage also discussed election 2020 and the legal challenges that the Trump campaign filed after election day.
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Bush v. Gore Supreme Court Decision
1 hour, 32 minutesLegal experts discuss the 2000 Bush v. Gore U.S. Supreme Court case, including the decision's merits, the precedents it set, and whether the ruling was driven by partisan politics. The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy hosted this event.
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Reel America: "The Judicial Power" - 1960
27 minutesThis film produced for international audiences by the U.S. Information Agency examines the U.S. Supreme Court's historic role as interpreter of the Constitution and explains how this role has evolved. The film profiles several 1960-era justices, including Chief Justice Earl Warren, Felix Frankfurter, William O. Douglas, and Hugo Black. The host is lawyer Joseph Welch, who served as U.S. Army chief counsel during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.
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Reel America: "The Constitution - Whose Interpretation?" - 1959
31 minutesThis film documents President Franklin D. Roosevelt's effort to prevent the Supreme Court from repealing New Deal laws and programs. Part of a series titled "Decision: The Constitution in Action," this program highlights FDR's so-called "court-packing" plan to enlarge the size of the Supreme Court, the evolving role of the Supreme Court, and the history of judicial review.
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Reel America: "The Constitution and Censorship" - 1957
29 minutesThis Columbia University film uses two U.S. Supreme Court free speech cases to document the history of censorship law. The first case deals with the constitutionality of New York's film censorship system after screenings of a popular Italian film are halted by authorities. The second case centers on freedom of speech and religion after Connecticut authorities object to a Jehovah's Witness going door to door using a record player to broadcast an evangelical talk. The film also covers the history of regulating cinema, and shows many scenes from early films.
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Reel America: "Amistad - The Federal Courts & the Challenge to Slavery" - 2002
30 minutesThis documentary details the complicated legal battle that resulted after an 1839 slave ship mutiny in the Caribbean that landed the ship in Connecticut, and eventually landed the case before the U.S. Supreme Court. It is produced by the Federal Judicial Center, the research and education agency of the U.S. judicial branch. Part of its mission is developing educational programs about the history of the U.S. federal courts.
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Al Gore Concession Speech
7 minutesIn the 2000 presidential election, Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore in one of the most highly contested races in U.S. history. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush. This is Vice President Gore's concession speech from December 13, 2000. It took place at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington, DC.
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Gov. George W. Bush Victory Speech
13 minutesIn the 2000 presidential election, Texas Governor George W. Bush defeated Democrat Al Gore in one of the most highly contested races in U.S. history. The outcome was not decided until five weeks after voters went to the polls, when the U.S. Supreme Court stopped a Florida recount. This ultimately awarded the state's electoral votes -- and the presidency -- to Governor Bush. This is President-elect Bush's victory speech from December 13, 2000. It took place in the Texas House of Representatives chamber in Austin.
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Q&A: David Savage, 20th Anniversary of Bush v. Gore
1 hour, 1 minuteLongtime Los Angeles Times Supreme Court reporter David Savage talked about the 2000 Bush v. Gore Supreme Court case which decided the presidential election that year. He also talked about why it happened and the court cases that led up to Bush v. Gore. Mr. Savage also discussed election 2020 and the legal challenges that the Trump campaign filed after election day.