C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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Historic Convention Speeches: Bill Clinton - 1992
1 hour, 0 minuteArkansas Governor Bill Clinton accepted his party's nomination at the 1992 Democratic National Convention in New York City. In projecting the future and recalling his hometown in Arkansas, Governor Clinton told delegates "I still believe in a place called Hope."
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Ulysses Grant's Legacy
59 minutesThe Grant Monument Association hosted a discussion between retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus and military historian Donald Miller on the military and political legacy of Ulysses Grant.
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Building the Statue of Liberty
49 minutesAuthor Elizabeth Mitchell discussed her book, Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, in which she looks at the challenges faced by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in bringing his design for the Statue of Liberty to fruition.
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President Kennedy's Vietnam Policies
1 hour, 4 minutesMarc Selverstone talked about his research into President Kennedy's Vietnam War policies, which is partly based on previously secret White House recordings, and his conclusion that JFK was keeping his military options open. Mr. Selverstone is chair of the Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
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Reel America: "Normandy, the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe" - 1944
53 minutesProduced by the U.S. Army Air Forces, this film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces which arrived in Normandy, France as part of the 1944 D-Day invasion. The film features the role of more than 13,000 parachuters and 500 gliders which were dropped behind enemy lines on the night of June 5 and morning of June 6.
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Oral Histories: Vietnam War Nurse Virginia Lee Dornheggen
12 minutesVirginia Lee Dornheggen recounted her time as a U.S. Army nurse during the Vietnam War.She described injuries she treated, the night the hospital came under fire, and the job's impact on her life. This video is courtesy of the Veterans History Project and Atlanta History Center's Kenan Research Center.
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The Atomic Bomb
23 minutesRobert Oppenheimer spoke about the development and use of the atomic bomb. He talked about atomic weapons as "evil things" and about the ethical application of science and scientific discovery. He also expressed his hope that the atomic bomb would never be used again, peaceful use of nuclear technologies, as well as nuclear deterrence. The physicist known as "the father of the atomic bomb" served as the first director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory beginning in 1943. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico was on July 16, 1945 and on August 6, 1945 Little Boy was detonated above Hiroshima. After WWII he became chief adviser to the newly-created Atomic Energy Commission. The program was an audio recording with still images shown. The speech was delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. It is presented courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Library.
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Reel America: 1967 Bob Hope Christmas Special
1 hour, 29 minutesThis film is an historic recording of comedian and entertainer Bob Hope's travels across the Pacific for an annual United Service Organizations (USO) tour of Southeast Asia in 1967. The show made numerous stops in Vietnam. Bob Hope was joined on stage by Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Barbara McNair and Miss World Madeleine Hartog Bell.
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Reel America: "Battle for Paris" August 1944 United Newsreel
12 minutesU.S. Office of War Information newsreel uses film shot by French resistance fighters to tell the story of the August 25, 1944 liberation of Paris during World War II.
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Ulysses Grant's Legacy
1 hour, 0 minuteThe Grant Monument Association hosted a discussion between retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus and military historian Donald Miller on the military and political legacy of Ulysses Grant.
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Building the Statue of Liberty
49 minutesAuthor Elizabeth Mitchell discussed her book, Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, in which she looks at the challenges faced by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in bringing his design for the Statue of Liberty to fruition.
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President Kennedy's Vietnam Policies
1 hour, 4 minutesMarc Selverstone talked about his research into President Kennedy's Vietnam War policies, which is partly based on previously secret White House recordings, and his conclusion that JFK was keeping his military options open. Mr. Selverstone is chair of the Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
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Reel America: "Normandy, the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe" - 1944
53 minutesProduced by the U.S. Army Air Forces, this film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces which arrived in Normandy, France as part of the 1944 D-Day invasion. The film features the role of more than 13,000 parachuters and 500 gliders which were dropped behind enemy lines on the night of June 5 and morning of June 6.
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Oral Histories: Vietnam War Nurse Virginia Lee Dornheggen
13 minutesVirginia Lee Dornheggen recounted her time as a U.S. Army nurse during the Vietnam War.She described injuries she treated, the night the hospital came under fire, and the job's impact on her life. This video is courtesy of the Veterans History Project and Atlanta History Center's Kenan Research Center.
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The Atomic Bomb
21 minutesRobert Oppenheimer spoke about the development and use of the atomic bomb. He talked about atomic weapons as "evil things" and about the ethical application of science and scientific discovery. He also expressed his hope that the atomic bomb would never be used again, peaceful use of nuclear technologies, as well as nuclear deterrence. The physicist known as "the father of the atomic bomb" served as the first director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory beginning in 1943. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico was on July 16, 1945 and on August 6, 1945 Little Boy was detonated above Hiroshima. After WWII he became chief adviser to the newly-created Atomic Energy Commission. The program was an audio recording with still images shown. The speech was delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. It is presented courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Library.
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Reel America: 1967 Bob Hope Christmas Special
1 hour, 29 minutesThis film is an historic recording of comedian and entertainer Bob Hope's travels across the Pacific for an annual United Service Organizations (USO) tour of Southeast Asia in 1967. The show made numerous stops in Vietnam. Bob Hope was joined on stage by Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Barbara McNair and Miss World Madeleine Hartog Bell.
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Reel America: "Battle for Paris" August 1944 United Newsreel
13 minutesU.S. Office of War Information newsreel uses film shot by French resistance fighters to tell the story of the August 25, 1944 liberation of Paris during World War II.
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Ulysses Grant's Legacy
1 hour, 0 minuteThe Grant Monument Association hosted a discussion between retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus and military historian Donald Miller on the military and political legacy of Ulysses Grant.
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Building the Statue of Liberty
48 minutesAuthor Elizabeth Mitchell discussed her book, Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, in which she looks at the challenges faced by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in bringing his design for the Statue of Liberty to fruition.
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President Kennedy's Vietnam Policies
1 hour, 4 minutesMarc Selverstone talked about his research into President Kennedy's Vietnam War policies, which is partly based on previously secret White House recordings, and his conclusion that JFK was keeping his military options open. Mr. Selverstone is chair of the Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
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Reel America: "Normandy, the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe" - 1944
53 minutesProduced by the U.S. Army Air Forces, this film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces which arrived in Normandy, France as part of the 1944 D-Day invasion. The film features the role of more than 13,000 parachuters and 500 gliders which were dropped behind enemy lines on the night of June 5 and morning of June 6.
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Oral Histories: Vietnam War Nurse Virginia Lee Dornheggen
15 minutesVirginia Lee Dornheggen recounted her time as a U.S. Army nurse during the Vietnam War.She described injuries she treated, the night the hospital came under fire, and the job's impact on her life. This video is courtesy of the Veterans History Project and Atlanta History Center's Kenan Research Center.
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The Atomic Bomb
21 minutesRobert Oppenheimer spoke about the development and use of the atomic bomb. He talked about atomic weapons as "evil things" and about the ethical application of science and scientific discovery. He also expressed his hope that the atomic bomb would never be used again, peaceful use of nuclear technologies, as well as nuclear deterrence. The physicist known as "the father of the atomic bomb" served as the first director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory beginning in 1943. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico was on July 16, 1945 and on August 6, 1945 Little Boy was detonated above Hiroshima. After WWII he became chief adviser to the newly-created Atomic Energy Commission. The program was an audio recording with still images shown. The speech was delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. It is presented courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Library.
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Reel America: 1967 Bob Hope Christmas Special
1 hour, 28 minutesThis film is an historic recording of comedian and entertainer Bob Hope's travels across the Pacific for an annual United Service Organizations (USO) tour of Southeast Asia in 1967. The show made numerous stops in Vietnam. Bob Hope was joined on stage by Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Barbara McNair and Miss World Madeleine Hartog Bell.
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Reel America: "Battle for Paris" August 1944 United Newsreel
14 minutesU.S. Office of War Information newsreel uses film shot by French resistance fighters to tell the story of the August 25, 1944 liberation of Paris during World War II.
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Ulysses Grant's Legacy
1 hour, 2 minutesThe Grant Monument Association hosted a discussion between retired U.S. Army General David Petraeus and military historian Donald Miller on the military and political legacy of Ulysses Grant.
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Building the Statue of Liberty
50 minutesAuthor Elizabeth Mitchell discussed her book, Liberty's Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty, in which she looks at the challenges faced by French sculptor Frederic Auguste Bartholdi in bringing his design for the Statue of Liberty to fruition.
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President Kennedy's Vietnam Policies
1 hour, 4 minutesMarc Selverstone talked about his research into President Kennedy's Vietnam War policies, which is partly based on previously secret White House recordings, and his conclusion that JFK was keeping his military options open. Mr. Selverstone is chair of the Presidential Recordings Project at the University of Virginia's Miller Center.
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Reel America: "Normandy, the Airborne Invasion of Fortress Europe" - 1944
54 minutesProduced by the U.S. Army Air Forces, this film details the planning, training, combat operations, and after-battle summaries of the airborne forces which arrived in Normandy, France as part of the 1944 D-Day invasion. The film features the role of more than 13,000 parachuters and 500 gliders which were dropped behind enemy lines on the night of June 5 and morning of June 6.
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Oral Histories: Vietnam War Nurse Virginia Lee Dornheggen
14 minutesVirginia Lee Dornheggen recounted her time as a U.S. Army nurse during the Vietnam War.She described injuries she treated, the night the hospital came under fire, and the job's impact on her life. This video is courtesy of the Veterans History Project and Atlanta History Center's Kenan Research Center.
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The Atomic Bomb
22 minutesRobert Oppenheimer spoke about the development and use of the atomic bomb. He talked about atomic weapons as "evil things" and about the ethical application of science and scientific discovery. He also expressed his hope that the atomic bomb would never be used again, peaceful use of nuclear technologies, as well as nuclear deterrence. The physicist known as "the father of the atomic bomb" served as the first director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory beginning in 1943. The first atomic bomb test in New Mexico was on July 16, 1945 and on August 6, 1945 Little Boy was detonated above Hiroshima. After WWII he became chief adviser to the newly-created Atomic Energy Commission. The program was an audio recording with still images shown. The speech was delivered at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. It is presented courtesy of the American Philosophical Society Library.
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Reel America: 1967 Bob Hope Christmas Special
1 hour, 28 minutesThis film is an historic recording of comedian and entertainer Bob Hope's travels across the Pacific for an annual United Service Organizations (USO) tour of Southeast Asia in 1967. The show made numerous stops in Vietnam. Bob Hope was joined on stage by Raquel Welch, Elaine Dunn, Barbara McNair and Miss World Madeleine Hartog Bell.