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Book, which focuses really on two days in the kennedy presidency june 10 and june 11, 1963. Why did you decide to write a book focused on only two days of the kennedy presidency and why did you pick those two days to focus on . Andrew thank you, colleen, it is a great honor to be here with you, and the White House Historical association. Particularly meaningful for me, because it was founded by Jackie Kennedy in the white house 60 years ago. I had been looking for a way into the Kennedy Administration for some time. Hard as it may be to believe, one of the most seminal days of my life was nove...

Emphasize was the fact that ordinary people were becoming much more militant and aggressive in defending their civil rights. Im going to continue that theme tonight and, indeed, i think its even more so the case in the 1950s and 1960s that ordinary people became the engines of the Civil Rights Movement. We tend to think about the Civil Rights Movement as Martin Luther king, jr. , fanny hammer and largerthanlife figures. The Civil Rights Movement was made up by ordinary people including and youll find out tonight a lot of College Students. A lot of College Students. In fact, in some ways the dr...

For a longer piece. It is an extraordinary watershed, historical moment. I think we are living through a third american reconstruction effort to reconstruct democracy so that it is multiracial, multicultural. Our first efforts were after the civil war. 1865 to 1877. We did achieve some racial progress. We had black elected officials. 1500 we had a freedmens bureau. We had the creation of black churches and Public Schools, but we also institutionalized racial segregation rather quickly by the 1880s and 1890s. And we did it through racial violence and public policy. Our second reconstruction is ...

Early today starts right now good wednesday morning. Im Frances Rivera minneapolis d who died when a white Police Officer knelt on his neck for rest his funeral attended by more than 500 people comes after weeks of global and National Protests that have called for police reform. Nbcs dan shenamen has more on the emotional good bye reporter more than two weeks after george floyd died in police custody, it was time to say goodbye. We honor him today because when he took his last breath, the rest of us will now be able to breathe reporter mourners filled the church to pay their respects my big br...

For many of us who have gone overseas and fought for this country, fought for mississippi, fought for alabama, fought for north carolina, fought for illinois, and fought for every state in this union. We are going to stay here and see that the things the mayor has said become reality. 15 minutes after midnight, he got out of his car. About 40 yards away a sniper fired a single shot. The bullet hit him in the back, crashed through his body and through him out a window in the house. He died an hour later at a jackson hospital. You are in the former home of medgar evers. He was born and raised in...