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of john f. kennedy and lyndon baines johnson, typically regarded by people who think of the modern civil rights movement as two presidents that were very much associated with civil rights. and the question on the program is to ask how legislation was moved forward. what were the forces that inspired the legislative process by these two presidents to advance actual civil rights legislation. and we certainly have the panel to do that. so let's start with -- because i like a little context. after we leave eisenhower and now it's john f. kennedy's time, what was happening in the country ...

i doubt that that happened, but there are people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said, but this is the only time that a president of the united states has actually been under fire while president of the united states, so abraham lincoln here, standing on the parapet looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs site, c-span.org/history. and watch american artifacts every sunday at 8:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the john f. kennedy presidential library convened a discussion on jfk ...

was said to have said get down, you fool, meaning get down before you get shot. i doubt that that happened, but there are people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said, but this is the only time that a president of the united states has actually been under fire while president of the united states, so abraham lincoln here, standing on the parapet looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs site, c-span.org. and watch american artifacts every sunday at 8:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span 3...

abraham lincoln here standing on the parapit looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs anytime by visiting our web site c-span.org. and watch american artifacts every sunday here on c-span 3. the john f. kennedy presidential library commenced a library. in this discussion, this panel is discussing the president's actions on civil rights. this program is just over one hour. >> so, if we could have your attention. we'll now go to our next panel on the presidencies of john f. kennedy and lyndon johnson. >> all ...

the woodrow wilson center for the book launch of "kennedy and the berlin wall: a hell of a lot better than a war" by william smyser. it's one of the, certainly, readable books ever written on the history of the berlin wall and this major confrontation between kennedy and khrushchev, between the united states and the soviet union during the late '50s and the early '60s, and i'm sure we will have 90 highly-interesting minutes of talk and discussion together. my name is bernd schafer, i'm a senior psychologicaller here -- scholar here, and i'm very pleased to have an outstanding panel h...