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incredible. along, he iscomes jag, the judge advocate general's office. and that's how he begins to prosecute war criminals. one of the first is in oklahoma he begins his career. it's 1945, july, the war is just ending. and a group of german war prisoner kill a german who they find out who is a traitor to them and he these and wins, of course, the case. and after that, then he is sent a special to be prosecutor as well. a photograph of some prisoners who were tortured nazis. and, of course, it was used as evidence. in an archive like this, you often come across other things. and, of course, here is his i.d. as well.used
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even more significant is the manual that was used for martial, us army 1928, with all of his notes on the and any of the marginalia that he would have as well. so you really begin to see how would think, use the law. it's significant to understand person. so we're delighted to have this .ich collection next, i think, as i said, the f.assination of john kennedy. you can see the size of this here.ular volume right it really starts with the assassination and goes all the through it. well marked. there's a whole file that's here with regard to the used.ce that was
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mavs thats mainly were taken, oswalt standing with the officers. regard to richard nixon and bringing down the , jaworski makes some observations on richard nixon's memoirs. i'll read this excerpt. "overall nixon's book, in the treatment of watergate, a master piece of evasion, self-serving declarations, a distortion of erroneous conclusion conclusions. there is a legal term which best his version -- and he has quotes around it -- avoidance."and 1976, leon that, in judgeki is invited by mccaul, the president of baylor to address the chamber of waco.ce of
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and so monday, january 12, 1976, waco convention center he this his speech with paragraph. "there's just one way to put it. home again.to be and waco has been and always home.e it was so wherever so my trails be soeen and it will wherever they may lead me in the ahead." the firstdsoe is african-american to sing on broadway. waco inorn here in 1897. although there is a little controversy. seen 1898, 1902, but we're say 1897. he's buried here in wake waco. he lived a relatively short life, 1943 he dies. in the rich life that he had
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between, we have his archival .ollection of about 25 boxes my understanding is the only other place that has much about him is in the new york public library. wells classically trained, educated as a singer, composer, the piano, conductor. the publicnown to dig "showboat," one of zigfield'sginal -- original production. man river." the piece was written for his voice. know "showboat" from the movie version but it first.ually on stage he was -- sang that particular man river." so what we have from his ownection is some of his notation that deals with "old
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arranged by jules bledsoe, jerome kearn, of the composers.of but you can see his notation on it. his collection is prolific with his original pieces, works that he would rewrite, particularly negro spirituals. but he was just a gifted and individual. other piece that i've pulled that i thought was significant was "ode to america" the words of the music were by jules bledsoe. respectfully dedicated, as it says on the cover, to president franklin delano roosevelt. businessman as well. he owned an african-american .esort in the mountains
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so prominent, well-to-do african-americans would leave new york and they could go to same way ass the .hites it is interesting to note that he was a successful businessman includedecords are here as well. sensational just a collection from many different aspects, whether it be musically business perspective. part of our collection development, whether it's sheet music, photograph, manuscript, find outimportant to more about the individual. it's a great research collection. we're just so proud to have it here at baylor. >> more "c-span cities tour" of waco, texas, tomorrow on c-span with a look at the city's starting ate
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6:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow, a book about gospel music from the rightsar to the civil movement, the story of the 1917 lynching of a black 17-year-old, history of the first african-americans in the space program. that's tuesday at 6:00 p.m. c-span.on [captions copyright national cable satellite corp, 2015] idea is to take the programming from htv and book of the road beyond the beltway to produce pieces that are a little more visual that provide a window in these city that the viewers wouldn't normally go to that also have really rich history and a rich literary scene as well. >> a lot of people have already citiesistory of the big like new york and l.a., chicago. but what about the smaller ones albany, new york? what's the history of them? to over 75 cities.
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we will have hit 95 cities in april twist 2016. -- april 2016. >> most of our programming is event coverage. these are not event coverage pieces. they're shorter. they take you someplace. historic you a home, a site. >> we partner with our explore theo culture of various cities. >> the key entry into the city is the cable operator who then intacts the city because essence, it's the cable industry bridging us there. really looking for great characters. you want your viewers to be able peopletify with these that we're talking about. >> it's an experiential type of program where we're taking the road to places where they can touch things, see things, and learn about, you it's not just the local history because a lot of the local history really plays into story.ional >> if somebody's watching this, enticing enough that they can get the idea of
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the story but also feel as if this is just in our backyard, go see it. >> we want viewers to get a sense that, oh, yeah, i know place just from watching one of our pieces. >> the c-span mission as we do our coverage bleeds into what we do on the road. be able toot to communicate the message about this network in order to do this job. done the one thing that we wanted it to do, which is build relationships with the and our cable partners and gather some great programming history tv and book tv. >> watch the cities tour on the networks to see where we're going next, see our atedule at c-span.org/citiestour. >> tonight -- >> he was into computers, sci-fi. that pushed him. had always heard about the silicon valley and dreamed of getting to america.
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young age, that's what he pined to do. at 17 he ran away from home and it. oneeporter ashley vance on of the most inventive leaders, elon musk. is seen as this next steve jobs figure. there's bits of him like that for sure. he's got this attention to detail. pushes his workers really hard. lean more to sort of this eddison idea though i think elon has a lot to prove. but what i've taken away is that he's a guy who gets these , kind of of engineers the brightest of the bright, and these very hard-working and really is able to get products out of them that can be commercialized and that have really changed industry. me he's the guy, he's hardware,oftware and this idea of atom and bits in a
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way that nobody else has. >> tonight on "the communicators" on c-span 2. >> coming up on the next "washington journal," a reform.on on education our guest is campbell brown, journalist and co-founder and editor-in-chief of the 74, a website dedicated to education issues. then environmental activist erin brockovich on the 'em 'em's role response -- epa's role to the waistwater spill in colorado. journal" live every morning 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. and you can join the conversation with your phone calls and comments on facebook and twitter. executivey downey is editor of the crop crop here to talk with us this morning about populism,of economic some have said incoming equality on the campaign trail, but the campaignit relates to
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2016. first of all, the "capitol forum" what does your group do? investigativeide news and legal analysis for a range of subscribers, investors,s, corporations, and industry stakeholders. host: we have a front page look at the recent story of "usa today." the issues in part of the campaign 2016, they looked at headline washeir "9c.e.o.s paid 800 times more worthers." they write the average c.e.o. of standard & poor's company was paid more than 16 times more employees. recent totalsed on the most reported compensation of ceos. why has this issue bubbled up in the campaigns of bernie sanders and hillary clinton? guest: i think the main reason
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is people are unhappy with the level of income inequality that exists. about the lot of talk results of income inequality. how big the gap is. how much ceos make. how much the average american makes and how big of a gap there is. but there is not as much conversation about why that occurs. at the capitol forum we study market competition, which is a big factor in how you get to that cap -- gap. the reality is that an economy is defined by lots of competition. if there isn't a dramatic amount of consolidation in every industry, employers compete for workers. they compete to get the best talent. they pay them more. they provide better benefits. as a result competition is
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really good for the worker and that reduces income inequality. what you have here is some of the elements that have pushed populism to work in the past. consolidated economic power. income inequality. these consolidated industries not defined by competition. bernie sanders with his classic populism that he is promoting, anti-big bank, anti-consolidation, is really working right now. host: in terms of the minimum a number of organizations are raising it. some cities are calling for raising it. what are we hearing from the candidates? guest: i haven't been paying close attention to all of the different proposals. lineup as you might
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expect. conservatives tend to think that the minimum wage is not the appropriate way to address problems like income inequality. that it creates bad business incentives. perspective is more to analyze things from a market competition point of view. the point i was making earlier, the structural reasons for why wages are not going up is in part because employers are not competing over workers. there aren't enough. the rules for competition aren't encouraging employers to provide better pay or benefits or allow for upward mobility of workers. that's probably the thing that is missing from the conservative side of the aisle. for democrats,

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