Good evening. Im tony clark from the Carter Library. Im really glad you all are here because i think this is going to be a fascinating evening because it kind of tells why we are in politics the way we are right now. You know, when i was growing up, folk music was a really big deal. And there was a group called the chad mitchell trio that had a song called the John Birch Society with lyrics like if mommy is a commie, you got to turn around and. It was just really a funny, funny song, you know . And they would sing things Like Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right things. But sometimes you should google chad mitchell trio and the the John Birch Society song, the billboards at the time, the highways would say things like Impeach Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren or get the us out of the u. N. So they were very well known back in the sixties, but by the end of the vietnam war, you didnt hear much about. But as youll hear tonight, their influence carried carried muc
Good evening. Im tony clark from the Carter Library. Im really glad you all are here because i think this is going to be a fascinating evening because it kind of tells why we are in politics the way we are right now. You know, when i was growing up, folk music was a really big deal. And there was a group called the chad mitchell trio that had a song called the John Birch Society with lyrics like if mommy is a commie, you got to turn around and. It was just really a funny, funny song, you know . And they would sing things Like Fighting for the right to fight the right fight for the right things. But sometimes you should google chad mitchell trio and the the John Birch Society song, the billboards at the time, the highways would say things like Impeach Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren or get the us out of the u. N. So they were very well known back in the sixties, but by the end of the vietnam war, you didnt hear much about. But as youll hear tonight, their influence carried carried muc
Displeased to the report. It is too long. Unanimous . You been listening to a portion of a phone conversation between president lyndon b. Johnson and senator Richard Russell of georgia. He was a member of the worn commission. Commission. N each week, reel america rings you archival films that helped to tell the story of the 20th century. After president kennedy was assassinated, president johnson established a commission to investigate the circumstances surrounding the day headed by the chief Justice Earl Warren. It concluded that lee hot Lee Harvey Oswald had acted alone in killing the president. Report, a cbs special from the day the report was released to the public. Youre watching an official reenactment of the murder of president john f. Kennedy filmed from the window where the alleged assassins crouched and are the telescopic sight of his rifle. This is a cbs news extra. November 22, and the warren report. Here is walter cronkite. November 22, president johnson strolled kennedy w
Including his wife and mother as well as those who witnessed the assassination and the aftermath on the streets of dallas. Youre watching an official reenactment of the murder of president john f. Kennedy filmed from the window where the alleged assassins crouched and are the telescopic sight of his rifle. This is a cbs news extra. November 22 and the warren report. Here is walter cronkite. November 22, president john kennedy was shot to death in full view of hundreds of spectators watching him in a dallas, texas, motorcade. 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald was killed by jack ruby in full view of millions of americans watching television. This bizarre sequence of double killings raised great questions. Who actually fired the shots that killed kennedy . Why did ruby shoot oswald . Was there a conspiracy . Was it a russian plot . A cuban plot . Were rightwingers involved . Lyndon johnson ordered these questions answered. He appointed a commission of seven prominent americans to investig
TAHLEQUAH — Seventy years ago, on May 17, 1954, the Supreme Court ruled that separation of children in schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional.