C-SPAN 3 TV Schedule
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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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Lectures in History: Rural America after the Civil War
1 hour, 21 minutesJames Madison University professor Andrew Witmer taught a class about the evolution of rural areas after the Civil War. Using his own hometown of Monson, Maine as a case study, he examined rural industry such as slate mining and the rise of country tourism aided by the expansion of railroad networks.
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Presidential Mourning & Tragedy
1 hour, 13 minutesHow do presidential libraries, homes, and historic sites interpret stories of tragedy and death? Speakers included representatives of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association and the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, which documents the assassination of President John Kennedy.
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Women Reporting on World War II
1 hour, 26 minutesAuthors Janet Somerville ("Yours, for Probably Always") and Hillary Roberts ("Lee Miller: A Woman's War") discussed women reporting on the frontlines during World War II. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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Captain Harry Truman & World War I
31 minutesMilitary historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman's World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, hosted this virtual program.
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History of the Filibuster
16 minutesNational Constitution Center Editor-in-Chief Scott Bomboy explained the history behind the use of the filibuster in American politics, which dates back to the nation's earliest years.
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Early Supreme Court Justices
58 minutesHistorians discussed how Supreme Court justices, such as John Jay, shaped the role of the court in the first decades of the United States. The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia hosted this virtual program.
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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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Lectures in History: Rural America after the Civil War
1 hour, 21 minutesJames Madison University professor Andrew Witmer taught a class about the evolution of rural areas after the Civil War. Using his own hometown of Monson, Maine as a case study, he examined rural industry such as slate mining and the rise of country tourism aided by the expansion of railroad networks.
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Presidential Mourning & Tragedy
1 hour, 13 minutesHow do presidential libraries, homes, and historic sites interpret stories of tragedy and death? Speakers included representatives of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association and the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, which documents the assassination of President John Kennedy.
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Women Reporting on World War II
1 hour, 27 minutesAuthors Janet Somerville ("Yours, for Probably Always") and Hillary Roberts ("Lee Miller: A Woman's War") discussed women reporting on the frontlines during World War II. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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Captain Harry Truman & World War I
32 minutesMilitary historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman's World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, hosted this virtual program.
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History of the Filibuster
16 minutesNational Constitution Center Editor-in-Chief Scott Bomboy explained the history behind the use of the filibuster in American politics, which dates back to the nation's earliest years.
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Early Supreme Court Justices
58 minutesHistorians discussed how Supreme Court justices, such as John Jay, shaped the role of the court in the first decades of the United States. The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia hosted this virtual program.
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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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Lectures in History: Rural America after the Civil War
1 hour, 23 minutesJames Madison University professor Andrew Witmer taught a class about the evolution of rural areas after the Civil War. Using his own hometown of Monson, Maine as a case study, he examined rural industry such as slate mining and the rise of country tourism aided by the expansion of railroad networks.
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Presidential Mourning & Tragedy
1 hour, 13 minutesHow do presidential libraries, homes, and historic sites interpret stories of tragedy and death? Speakers included representatives of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association and the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, which documents the assassination of President John Kennedy.
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Women Reporting on World War II
1 hour, 26 minutesAuthors Janet Somerville ("Yours, for Probably Always") and Hillary Roberts ("Lee Miller: A Woman's War") discussed women reporting on the frontlines during World War II. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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Captain Harry Truman & World War I
30 minutesMilitary historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman's World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, hosted this virtual program.
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History of the Filibuster
16 minutesNational Constitution Center Editor-in-Chief Scott Bomboy explained the history behind the use of the filibuster in American politics, which dates back to the nation's earliest years.
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Early Supreme Court Justices
1 hour, 0 minuteHistorians discussed how Supreme Court justices, such as John Jay, shaped the role of the court in the first decades of the United States. The National Constitution Center in Philadelphia hosted this virtual program.
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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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Lectures in History: Rural America after the Civil War
1 hour, 23 minutesJames Madison University professor Andrew Witmer taught a class about the evolution of rural areas after the Civil War. Using his own hometown of Monson, Maine as a case study, he examined rural industry such as slate mining and the rise of country tourism aided by the expansion of railroad networks.
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Presidential Mourning & Tragedy
1 hour, 13 minutesHow do presidential libraries, homes, and historic sites interpret stories of tragedy and death? Speakers included representatives of the Grover Cleveland Birthplace Memorial Association and the Sixth Floor Museum in Dallas, which documents the assassination of President John Kennedy.
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Women Reporting on World War II
1 hour, 28 minutesAuthors Janet Somerville ("Yours, for Probably Always") and Hillary Roberts ("Lee Miller: A Woman's War") discussed women reporting on the frontlines during World War II. This program was part of the 14th annual International Conference on World War II hosted by the National World War II Museum in New Orleans.
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Captain Harry Truman & World War I
31 minutesMilitary historian D.M. Giangreco talked about Captain Harry Truman's World War I service, and how it shaped the president who later brought World War II to an end. The Truman Library Institute in Independence, Missouri, hosted this virtual program.
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History of the Filibuster
15 minutesNational Constitution Center Editor-in-Chief Scott Bomboy explained the history behind the use of the filibuster in American politics, which dates back to the nation's earliest years.