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weekend on c-span3. to mark the 60th anniversary of the capitol hill newspaper "rollcall," c-span is featuring their reporters, who talk about how "rollcall" covered major news events of the past 60 years. >> when "roll call" went to press for the june 6 addition in 1968, they did not yet know what would be the fate of bobby kennedy. they knew that he had been shot and rushed to a hospital in los angeles, but they went to press not yet knowing exactly what the outcome would be. so the "roll call" editorial staff and their founder actually went ahead with a front-page editorial in which they addressed the broader issues of the day regarding violence and particularly as it related to

guns but also more generally which was a topic of concern for "roll call" throughout the 1960's. in those days, the newspaper ran a regular series of editorial features and had an editorial column in each week's edition. one topic for concern for a lot of people in washington, both on capitol hill and elsewhere, was the more general violence of the era, and that included the riots that were going on in the city. when rfk was shot, it became an obvious time to once again return to that topic. as it was happening, it turned out that the next addition of "roll call" would not be for another week. they had a situation where they did not have an opportunity to report the news of the funeral itself or even bobby kennedy's death in print.

when "roll call" went to print a week after bobby kennedy had been assassinated, "roll call" was back to its coverage of the way it has covered washington since its inception. that meant there were two lead stories on the subject of the death of rfk. one of which was the speculation about whom would be appointed to fill out the unexpired term of his senate seat in new york. that was a situation where the newspaper correctly speculated that the best candidate on paper was charles goodell. he was a congressman from upstate. viewers will know that he was the father of the current commissioner of the national football league, roger goodell. and he was the -- he did not serve very long in the senate, but was the republican governor's apointee to fill out

the seat after there was some speculation that the mayor of new york city might have been appointed. the other story that "roll call" explored goes back to the newspaper's traditional focus on the capitol hill community. and the campus life for those around the hill. there were new security concerns obviously, following the assassination of someone who had been a united states senator , he was running for president but am i at the time, he was a united states senator. there was action taken to introduce legislation designed to make it a simple prime or to ensure that it was a federal crime when a member of congress or an executive branch official was assassinated. that was not something that would need to be handled at the state level, but the federal government could step in. the other thing that was a matter of concern was how exactly to contact the folks in

the capitol police in the event of a security threat on the hill. "roll call" once again focused as we have throughout our history, on police matters and the way that embers of congress can get a hold of the law enforcement personnel on the hill. >> it is a must as if they were matter and antimatter. >> i will say it a third time. >> twice was enough. >> he is almost always in the right and always in the wrong. >> filmmakers robert gordon n and talk about the debates between william feville over politics, god, and sex.

>> today, i believe there are someone saying the numbers are dwindling, talk about hot topics, hot, salacious topic number two. i do not think that was the norm in tv at the time. i do not think these guys needed -- these guys did not need it. >> he was the moderator and a distinguished news man who was embarrassed by this. he was moderating, but he disappears for sometimes five or more minutes at a time. today, you would not have a moderator not jumping in every 30 seconds. i think really, everybody at abc just stood back and let the fire burned. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> recently, american history tv was at the organization of american historians annual meeting in st. louis