C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Nelson Lichtenstein, "A Fabulous Failure - The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism"
1 hour, 28 minutesUC Santa Barbara professor Nelson Lichtenstein argued that the Clinton administration's agenda did more to advance corporate America than working class Americans. Columbia University in New York City hosted this event.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: 1st Infantry Division in WWII 1946
14 minutesThis 1946 War Department film showed combat operations in the 1st Infantry Division during World War II. The 1st Infantry was the first to reach England; the first to fight in North Africa and Sicily and the first on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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The Civil War: 1865 Battle of High Bridge
1 hour, 24 minutesHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant's Union forces to catch up with General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates at Farmville in the closing days of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier's annual event in Petersburg, Virginia.
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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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Cable TV, Hollywood & Presidential Politics
52 minutesHistorian Kathryn Brownell talked about the rise of cable television and the mingling of Hollywood celebrity with politics, and how they've impacted presidential campaigns and the presidency itself. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted this program.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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James Risen and Thomas Risen, "The Last Honest Man"
1 hour, 37 minutesJournalists James and Thomas Risen talked about Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) and the committee he headed in 1975-76 that investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. Four former Church Committee members participated in the discussion. This event was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: 1st Infantry Division in WWII 1946
14 minutesThis 1946 War Department film showed combat operations in the 1st Infantry Division during World War II. The 1st Infantry was the first to reach England; the first to fight in North Africa and Sicily and the first on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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The Civil War: 1865 Battle of High Bridge
1 hour, 24 minutesHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant's Union forces to catch up with General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates at Farmville in the closing days of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier's annual event in Petersburg, Virginia.
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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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Cable TV, Hollywood & Presidential Politics
52 minutesHistorian Kathryn Brownell talked about the rise of cable television and the mingling of Hollywood celebrity with politics, and how they've impacted presidential campaigns and the presidency itself. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted this program.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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James Risen and Thomas Risen, "The Last Honest Man"
1 hour, 37 minutesJournalists James and Thomas Risen talked about Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) and the committee he headed in 1975-76 that investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. Four former Church Committee members participated in the discussion. This event was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: 1st Infantry Division in WWII 1946
14 minutesThis 1946 War Department film showed combat operations in the 1st Infantry Division during World War II. The 1st Infantry was the first to reach England; the first to fight in North Africa and Sicily and the first on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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The Civil War: 1865 Battle of High Bridge
1 hour, 24 minutesHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant's Union forces to catch up with General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates at Farmville in the closing days of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier's annual event in Petersburg, Virginia.
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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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Cable TV, Hollywood & Presidential Politics
52 minutesHistorian Kathryn Brownell talked about the rise of cable television and the mingling of Hollywood celebrity with politics, and how they've impacted presidential campaigns and the presidency itself. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted this program.
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Reel America: "Alaska Highway" - 1944
36 minutesThe U.S. Army Signal Corps documented the difficult task of building a 1,500 mile highway through the Canadian wilderness as a World War II supply route from the lower 48 states to Fairbanks, Alaska. The highway connected several airfields and isolated ports on the Alaska panhandle. It was opened to the public in 1948.
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James Risen and Thomas Risen, "The Last Honest Man"
1 hour, 37 minutesJournalists James and Thomas Risen talked about Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) and the committee he headed in 1975-76 that investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. Four former Church Committee members participated in the discussion. This event was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.
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Vice President Gerald Ford
1 hour, 15 minutesHistorian Richard Norton Smith talked about Gerald Ford - and the vice presidency - on the 50th anniversary of Mr. Ford becoming Richard Nixon's vice president on Dec. 6, 1973, after Spiro Agnew resigned amid an income tax evasion scandal. This was part of a conference on American vice presidents hosted by the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum and Presidential Foundation.
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Reel America: 1st Infantry Division in WWII 1946
14 minutesThis 1946 War Department film showed combat operations in the 1st Infantry Division during World War II. The 1st Infantry was the first to reach England; the first to fight in North Africa and Sicily and the first on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day. Reel America is an American History TV series featuring 20th century archival films produced mostly by government agencies.
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The Civil War: 1865 Battle of High Bridge
1 hour, 25 minutesHistorian Jerry Desmond discussed the 1865 Battle of High Bridge, near Farmville, Virginia. Failure to destroy this railroad crossing bridge enabled General Grant's Union forces to catch up with General Robert E. Lee and the Confederates at Farmville in the closing days of the Civil War. This was part of the National Museum of the Civil War Soldier's annual event in Petersburg, Virginia.
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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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Cable TV, Hollywood & Presidential Politics
53 minutesHistorian Kathryn Brownell talked about the rise of cable television and the mingling of Hollywood celebrity with politics, and how they've impacted presidential campaigns and the presidency itself. The Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan, hosted this program.
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James Risen and Thomas Risen, "The Last Honest Man"
1 hour, 36 minutesJournalists James and Thomas Risen talked about Sen. Frank Church (D-ID) and the committee he headed in 1975-76 that investigated abuses by U.S. intelligence agencies. Four former Church Committee members participated in the discussion. This event was held at the National Press Club in Washington, DC.