If you would like to view other after words programs online, go to our web site, booktv. Org, type afterwards into the search bar and all previous after words episodes will be available. Welcome to springfield, missouri, we visited the city to explore its rich history and literary culture, located 80 miles east of the kansas border, springfield wag the site of many major conflicts during the civil war. Today it is the their largest city in the state, with a population of 167,000. With the help of our partners at media come, for the next hour and ten minutes well explore the local literary culture, starting with jeremy, the border between them, and as he shares the story of bleeding kansas, a conflict occurring along the kansas missouri border in the struggle over slavery. And the question of whether kansas territory would be open for slavery or free soil. Violence of 1850s is really about that question and becomes wrapped in so much more. You have sites over water and access to grazing
New frontier. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things not because they are easy but because they are hard. It appears as though something has happened in the motorcade group. Osgood after dallas, the horror of his end, the dashed hopes of what might have been. Throughout the morning well be remembering key moments of that have friday afternoon and the three days that followed and well be taking the measure of a kennedy legacy. The john f. Kennedy who loom sod large in our National Memory very much a mixture of fact and legend. Rita braver will examine the facts, far teichner the legend. Reporter when you think of the kennedys, is it what actually happened during j. F. K. S Administration that comes to mind thor . Think bank on all the pains that you remember. We all got to think that the kennedys were mythical. They were royal, they were beautiful. Reporter ahead, the immortality of camelot. Osgood during the good times first Lady Jacqueline kennedy played a