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Audience members please turn off your cell phones now. Everybody take a second to make sure your cell phone is off. So we have two wonderful boston globe columnist here, kevin cole in in your penitentiary, and we asked him if he would like to attend but when the phone didnt ring we knew it was him. [laughter] shelley and i have covered, first of all, shelley grew up in dorchester very close to the south boston line. She went to south boston high. My entire maternal side is in south boston so we would have grown up knowing, learning about Whitey Bulger by osmosis. Everybody where we grew up whe...

President kennedy and his funeral cemented her in the public consciousness. Welcome to the cspan series, first ladies, influence and image. We have two guests at the table, to tell you more about her story. He has a special focus on the cold war era and the Kennedy Administration. Robert parry is a political scientist and as part of the modern first ladies series, he has written the Jacqueline Kennedy biography. Before we get into more details about her white house years, i want to talk about the images of that assassination. Anyone who was alive at that time has those images in their mind. Th...

Facts are. You can decide for yourself what you want to believe. Our sunday panel tackles all that plus their thoughts on the legacy of former israeli Prime Minister aerial sharon. Well have a live report from jerusalem. Then 50 years after president Lyndon Johnson declared a war on poverty, both parties are revoke using sights on inequality. We have to make sure this recovery which is real leaves nobody behind. The current Government Programs that are designed to address poverty, they do not help people emerge from it. They do not help people rise above it. Well examine competing visions with...

The list is actually very long. The first person who championed him was melvin laird, who was a congressman from michigan and nixons secretary of defense. He knew jerry ford very well, and, by the way, this entire list, everything they say to nixon is the same thing. He will be confirmed, because nixon does not want ford. He wants john conley. Nixon wants john conley, who is the secretary of the treasury, and who had split from the democratic party. Nixon feels a kinship with conley, and he wants conley to run in 1976. Everyone is coming to him and his saying, john conley because of the scanda...

Libraryand the truman institute. Following the program, here gerald fords 10minute speech here on American History tv. Hello, and welcome to the kansas city public library. I am director of public affairs. I want to thank you in joining us for the latest iteration of our hail to the chief lecture series, cochaired by our partners at the Truman Library institute, the Foundation Arm of the Harry S Truman president ial inrary and museum independence. As many of you know, we here at the library just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries, and such is the case tonight. 40 years ago, well, ...