August 1980 News Today

office, and it just took us long to get there. i remember saying on our air, in 2018, when justice kennedy retired, that one of the consequences of that would be that abortion would be illegal in half the country within two years. and i was wrong, it was four years. but the fact that this is foretold doesnt make it any less shocking. >> im gonna go watch your show now. >> thanks, chris. good to see you, my friend. thank you. >> and thanks to you at home for being with us this hour. its...

gretchen whitmer, london lamar, and senator elizabeth warren all join me live. all in starts right now. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening from los angeles. i am chris hayes. it is a brutal day for american democracy, for american women, specifically, for all americans could become pregnant. for all americans, really. it right enshrined in the constitution as intimate as any right one could imagine. it has been discarded and destroyed by five unelected justices. three of whom were appointed, ...

regularly during the 1970s, including after the roe decision in 1973, the southern bout this. when roe was handed down in 73, though, the former president of the southern baptist convention welcomed it and explained why. he said, quote, i was about that it was only after a child was born and had a life separate from its mother that it became an individual person. it is always there for seem to me what is best for the mother and for the future should be allowed. southern path this conve...

Longer governor of california, he was running for president. in august 1980, reagan gave a speech to 10,000 cheering evangelicals in a dallas arena, and he talked about creationism, and the bible. he talked about how evangelical institutions ought to be able to remain racially segregated, if they wanted. thats nice. but even then, he did not mention abortion. the plan to use abortion as a right-wing political organizing tool, to try, for example, to move catholics to the republican party, to giv...

His first antiabortion segment was not until 1978, more than five years after roe. even as late as 1980, when ronald reagan biden was no longer governor of california, he was running for president. in august 1980, reagan gave a speech to 10,000 cheering evangelicals in a dallas arena, and he talked about creationism, and the bible. he talked about how evangelical institutions ought to be able to remain racially segregated, if they wanted. thats nice. but even then, he did not mention abortion. t...

0 southern baptist convention. reactions to roe v. wade were also really heterogeneous for a long time between the two political parties. there were plenty of antiabortion democrats, and there were lots of pro-choice republicans. republican governors wrote the forefront of decriminalizing of abortion in the states in the 1960s. including the governor of california, a man named ronald reagan. in 1967, ronald reagan signed into law the most liberal abortion rights bill in the country in california...

Retroactively dated some promissory notes to made it loo loo -- look lie he put up some money. but, he did not. financially, it was a dream. five kids in college, right? that has to hurt. he figured out basically that there was this bigot of free money that he could tap to ease up financial pain. this whole deal was illegal and not least because the guy whos taking the money waycros a fede judge. in case it was not clear to him that there was a real cost associated with this free for nothing ama...

Basically that there was this spigot of free money that he could tap to ease that financial pain. and as you might expect, this whole deal was spectacular illegal, not least because the guy who took the money, our dad of seven, was a federal judge. and in case it wasnt clear to him from the outset, it soon became clear that there was a real cost associated with this free for nothing amazing money service that he had started tapping. in august 1980, a small plane landed at the hattiesburg airport...

>> i responded that night, it looked like the sniper had laid in wait inside this field and shot these people as they were coming across the lighted intersection. both the boys were shot even after they quit moving. they werent wounds to the legs or the extremities. in shooters talk, these were all like kill shots. >> i would like to talk to you about the salt lake shooting. that was august, 1980. >> uh-huh. >> why did you travel to salt lake? >> ive been there before back in 1975 and noticed a ...

Wouldnt stop. >> im able to face it now. have i have strength to face the murder now. >> a murder no one saw coming. it was summer in the strawberry fields of john lennons knock. >> he do love new york. it was so fun to be there with him. >> writer dave chef spent three weeks around the clock with john lennon writing an article in august 1980. >> you would think john lennon of all people would have security guards all around. thats not what he was about. we walked in central park and -- >> did p...