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the iowa state fair continues. we hear from governor chris christie at noon and governor bobby jindal at 1:00 p.m. hold a townlker hall meeting in ashland, new hampshire tomorrow. on c-span 2, but tv is live at the mississippi look festival beginning at 11:30. formere features the governor as well as panel discussions on civil rights, history, and biography. sunday morning at 10:00, katie her thoughts on the obama administration's relationship with millennial's. on american history tv on c-span 3, at 5:00, columbia university professor on new york's cultural and political landmarks and the history of the commission treated to protect them. sunday at 4:00, three films on the pilot district project, a program administered by the

johnson administration to help improve poor relations between the community and the police in washington, d.c. after the 1968 martin luther king assassination. our complete schedule at c-span.org. -- library of congress cap the library of congress packard campus preserves and provides access to the best collection of sound recordings. american history tv visited the packard campus to learn about the earliest public affairs films, including u.s. presidents, the spanish-american war, world war i, in the first ever political ad, created in 1912 by the democratic party. my name is mike mashon. i am head of the moving image section here at the library of congress, home of the largest collection of video in the world. we are at the packard campus for audio-visual conservation in

culpeper, virginia, opened in 2007, and dedicated to preserving our audiovisual heritage. favorites, films, that we have in the collection is what we believe to be the very first political ad. it comes from 1912. which william in howard taft is a republican candidates. woodrow wilson is a democratic candidate. theodore roosevelt is running the progressive, bull moose, party. the film is called the old way and the new. rich,ns up with this very fat, plutocrat who comes into his office, where one of his flunkies is dutifully dusting off portraits of theater roosevelt and william howard

theodore roosevelt and william howard taft as an example of the old way of doing things. is a has lots of money, he spending favors, there are all sorts of drives and political bribes and-- of political corruption. it is contrasted with the new way of doing things, championed by woodrow wilson. the film and's with a plea for people to send one dollar to the democratic national committee on the half of the woodrow wilson campaign. because woodrow wilson is for the common man. republicans are for the wealthiest 1%. have notthose tropes changed in the last 100 years. we have 1.4 million items in the collection. there are plenty of treasures out there to be discovered.

the great thing is, with new technology we have, not only the ability to preserve these stock,ilm on your film but we have a lot more technology available to digitize of the film and make them available for people. we have known about the film. now we have ways of getting it out there for people to see. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its

caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] this sunday night on q&a, 20-year-old college student kurt the graves of presidents and vice presidents since he was nine and documenting his adventures on his website. he talked about those visits and his interest in american history. thate one great site everyone has trouble getting to is the nelson rockefeller, vice president for ford. >> how did you do a? >> we were able to do it through what my father described as an act of god. my father walked farther down the perimeter of the serum -- cemetery and saw this giant tree that had fallen. and sawlly went in nelson rockefeller's grave and decided that he would have to get me there fairly quickly after that. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. you are watching american history tv.

programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter @cs panhistory to keep up with the latest history news. author d. m. giangreco talks directed atfensive japan's most northern island. he discusses the soviet union's involvement including the use of just six and -- logistics. focuses on the 70th anniversary of the end of world war ii. posted by the institute for the study of strategy and politics, it is about an hour. have d. m. giangreco who is the editor of the military review for a long time up at fort leavenworth and has written a very excellent book "health pay." --