from j.f.k.'s assassination to nine eleven the famously infamous a fascinating look inside history of instant change then shaped america truly odd is a lose i'll take you on the next school door inside the nation's newseum in washington d.c. all next on politicking with larry. welcome to politicking with larry king one a special show we have d.n.a.

we have a tour of the incredible newseum in washington d.c. kavita rose will be my partner on this tour she is the vice president of exhibits here at the newseum and you're going to see an incredible story the history of news in america in all phases of news in this hour on this world structure come along for the trip. is the gallery which contains the soup the warning the football legend slitted of

murder and a door where events behind didn't lead to a president who can teach what. are we know where big news history gallery where we tell the story of five centuries of news history one of fourteen stories is that scandal stories of always been with a celebrity stories have been here since the beginning of reporting people think it's some new invention and one of the things that's really intriguing here is this suit that o.j. simpson moore in court on the day he was acquitted in one nine hundred ninety five this of course was the story of the decade how did you get that suit we were able to work with i think one of the attorneys who had it and it's a gift from them and this was a custom tailored two thousand dollars suit that was chosen carefully by jury consultants on his side to make the best impression in court orders brought me to los angeles and i was in that office would do. g. you go right by invitation so we cover the bad and the good you do and that's

important for folks to know here that there's extraordinary things that happen because of journalism and there's also a few mistakes that have been made along the way. look at these kind of weird when you've interviewed people and. since going back to nine hundred fifty seven. so this is fifty six years so as i walk through this is the door of watergate right yes in the building it is hard to get this story is the only broken right yeah this is the door this is one of the most historic doors in journalism in political history this was the door that the burglars shot before the break in at the d.n.c. back in the seventy's that lead ultimately to the downfall of president nixon this is part of the great history of the washington post and the story that they won the pulitzer prize for and we got it because after the investigation was over the

janitor of watergate took it home and put it in his basement and so we were able to work with him to acquire this for the museum and this picture i know everyone in this picture that's katharine graham spent many hours at her house. is woodward and bernstein howard simons who is ben bradley chief assistant bradley at the washington post you know that was the dream team they were the key players in that incredible story that really changed history story of watergate it's all here and mark records the presses as watchdogs on all of us. i got my job to the washington post gerald ford who succeeded nixon. credible place folks you're listening to the larry king show live from the nation's capital to give my regards to assume that's refused. one of the things i do to fix the wrong condition my guest is frank zappa this thursday frank will testify with others it to what is a sold out hearing m.t.v.

is going to telecast it live while folks on the museum. you bet among the most notable journalists in the newseum is a broadcast legend named larry king and you can see here that we give some information about your really. incredible career let's just see that have been filled with a year that is built on that's true what does this whole section this is the history of news through three hundred fifty newspapers and magazines people do come here and post but i didn't find people yes you can find other journalists but you can also find a front pages of history you can call them up there somebody you might have interviewed and you can see the actual front pages they appeared on the day and we've got a collection of more than thirty thousand of these. and this is a history the right is a history since the invention of the printing press forward so to to modern day so it's really an incredible trip through time through the exhibits come and go but

this is a problem this is a burden exhibit you know and a very important one because it really establishes the flow of history of journalism and why journalism is important but also questions people have about it like is there bias do journalists make mistakes so they actually you know we meet those questions head on on urge you you come to washington bring the children come to. it it's a incredible place. next week. to a shake. i want ninety three straight days after nine eleven forget that i was at the site two weeks later tell me about this incredible exhibit well this exhibit

really tells the story of the reporters who were first responders who you like firemen and cops ran toward danger when others were running away that day that's why. i reporters do that's what you do and this is the story as told through hundreds of newspapers around the gallery the story that they told on nine twelve and two artifacts like this which is the top part of the broadcast ten ten and that stood on the top of the world trade center and which toppled when the towers fell there were broadcast engineers working in this area and they of course perished with thousands of others on that day but it really is i think the most dramatic piece that we have in the newseum it's it just tells the story right there it's sort of angled you sort of feel like it's falling with the towers and it was the tower that was responsible for all the communication in new york and so everything went down at that point and logistically it was a it was a really hard story to cover. and all of newspaper headlines yeah so we've got nearly two hundred newspapers up here that were printed on nine twelve there were

nearly two hundred extra editions printed that day that was still in the era when we printed extras when we were in on the internet twenty four seven and the hunger for news was so large the new york times sold four hundred thousand extra copies the next day of its paper alone and i think that tells a really in maysan global story one of those bastards so well yeah that was a famous headline in the san francisco examiner we also have over here the objects that were found with the only journalist who died on nine eleven a photojournalist named bill bigger it ran toward danger that morning when he saw the smoke plummeting from downtown they found his body four days later under one of the towers where he had died i think when you see these things that were left behind his cameras his badly burned cameras in cases his cell phone his reporter's notebook his reporter's i.d. cards they really tell the story of somebody who risked his life and paid the price

for this story or you know reporters have a role to play in coverage like this of communicating to frighten and terrified nation as you know from the your reporting that day how chaotic it was and how hard it was to report. any person who comes to washington must come here. you know i think it's a really you know we tell the biggest stories of our lives here at the newseum as reported by the journalists who are on the front lines of history. tearing down. this is what. was the berlin wall. it is the side that faced freedom these are real pieces of the berlin wall and behind guard tower that stood there checkpoint charlie the guards had to pull themselves up by ladders they didn't have it to first security reasons

so there is a system of ladders that they would use to get up to the top so this whole thing was filled with. trenches and razor wire and you know this wall was the only wall ever built to keep people in not to keep people out and the story right on this side of the war because it faced the west but if you see the other side completely blank because it faced depression and the story of this gallery is that news still was able to to get through the wall and help topple tyranny we've got it right over here gorbachev's pen that he used to scientists the end of the soviet era. so there are fifteen permanent exhibits area and then there's three visiting the site where temporary exhibits were always changing up exhibits and adding new things to the mix this whole building is so incredible. touching history careful one can know this is the.

next we go to the civil rights exhibit the chase our student leaders made their voices heard. kept the world and we're in our new permanent exhibit on the civil rights movement it's called make some noise it's about students in the civil rights movement and it's kind of a little known story a lot of kids don't remember it today but back in the sixty's this country much of the country was still segregated in the south lots of laws kept african-americans from voting black people couldn't sit next to white people on interstate buses even lunch counters like this famous ones from greensboro north carolina were reserved for white people only and so in the sixty's a new generation rose up in protest and they staged direct action protests like sit ins at this lunch counter which create grew into a huge student movement that really helped change the face of segregation. yeah philo but i interviewed stokely carmichael when young marion barry and moves you

all these people yeah these are the student leaders from the time they were part of a group called the student nonviolent coordinating committee and they've gone on to have amazing careers and public service john lewis of course the u.s. congressman absolute courageous and brave robert moses julian bond all of them many of them still very active. well put together as was it done in the. one sweet home place we opened on in april of two thousand and eight in one sweep but then we've continued to add new. exhibits every year so you're looking to move things on which we are and we might want to ask you for a few new things. new thing you want our right you even have the internet are she featured somewhere along the way do or across from our new media gallery which really tells the story of these incredible changes that are occurring in this revolution that's going on in the news business right now and you have tapes running to run yeah we have

a wonderful department that does their own in-house video and this is a video about that era in the civil rights movement. it was a. very hard to take a. look. at you that are back with that hurt right there looking. like.

a bit of a. i think. we're going to do the job did you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution in chicago that's because a free and open process is critical to our democracy shred albums. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across the semi-colon we've been hijacked right handful of transnational corporations that will profit by destroying what our founding fathers one school i'm tom are going to get on this show we reveal the big picture of what's actually going on in the world we go beyond identifying the problem trying to rational debate and a real discussion of critical issues facing america if i ever feel ready to join the movement then welcome to take.

our first job is here in all in just virginia this famous religion morio the pigs the site of the battle of the woods jima when we raise that famous flag on those

four soldiers all of them would lay the floor of the united states raising money for the war of. there is the prospect god is still live in that building when i was seven. different days or a. hour at one of the most famous corners that washington wonder of wisconsin and then in his stall at georgetown georgetown university is two blocks down president john kennedy live three blocks up the road is the famous shopping one a lot of restaurants lot of bars and on hollow we can move on business three see all the young people in washington dressed in the weirdest costumes congregating here. and now at the historic he had now morial and the brilliance is that all the names of those who died are are on this wall and when you walk by you see yourself in the wall as if to

say who are we to blame you can read anything you want into this i always read it as kind of a blend many people read it as kind of a tribute and i have a special memory of this because when they broke ground for this they do a special on p.b.s. and i host their best special and i remember when they put the put the action to the ground and shovels one of the ground to build this memorial i had no idea it would come out looking like this on the side of the road this is. a very hard sell . very warm very human very sad very important mind vietnam memorial. many palms in america i dine at the common l.a. the palms and pop a natural fall in miami but this is off the palm in washington ready at least the.

site on the exact amount of the in the work. very cute kid from brooklyn. who have been changing thirty five years of the executives turned. out. to be up to eight newspapers in new york the world series morning prepared to leave your very own car to come in here for your picture every person richard yes or no. major here forty years my fortieth anniversary. or my book is going to be nobody knows the troubles i'm. sixty years these days gazes. this is. one of those leaders that. this goes without saying. well we're in the fiftieth anniversary year of president

kennedy's death one of the most tumultuous things that ever happened to america and we wanted to mark that here in the newseum this year and these artifacts are part of our exhibit called three shots were fired which of course was the first part of the u.p.i. bulletin the moved on his death these artifacts include suspected assassin lee harvey oswald shirt jacket and wallet they're all being publicly displayed here for the very first time they're alone from the national archives and they really tell an extraordinary story of his apprehension in the texas theater. called poorest of them feeling old and then his wallet is extraordinary i think because think about your own wallet and what it tells about you well this tells a big story about lee harvey oswald as well and this is old ball can be when you this is about yeah this is how reporters covered those four days that really shook the world from the assassination as you remember the capture of oz well the shooting of officer tippit the capture of oz well and then the first live broadcast

murder on national television when ruby shot oswald that sunday. so this is all through the lens of the reporters who covered it it's really extraordinary to spend one of the most popular exhibits this year and here the famous roberta story right this is abraham zapruder film the assassination of president kennedy with this home movie camera this that's the camera that is the camera that he used to film was probably the most famous twenty six seconds of film in the history of our country he was the only witness to capture the entire sasa nation on film including the moment that the fatal bullet struck. incredible you have all those and i saw the route first thing i saw all my life want to be in a movie the. news machine yeah that is the bells used to ring the ticker teletype machines like this one spread the news of kennedy's assassination in the way they did it was like you said

a bell inside the machine alerted newsrooms that there was a big story so a news bulletin from u.p.i. would ring five bells but a flash which was the highest and most compelling story was ten bells and that's what it rang that day and we had a copy of the u.p.i. flash right in that teletype machine that reports his death but also when you look at this case look at the way reporters reported back in the day it was bulky it was cumbersome you carried your typewriter with each carry microphones and big tape recorders big cameras were a moment photographers of course had film that they had to expose and then they had runners along the route that they the reporters no reporters no pads i think those are still in use that. don't memorize and they'll still have to be human people doing this robots cannot use those. yet you have to. do it inside libya seized him russets office up next. with kathy trosa

of the fabulous newseum in washington i remember when this was just a dream about a new hoss which started in rosslyn. you are the vice president of exhibits here were you in broadcasting or not i was in print i was. the wall street journal and a couple other papers and your job here is i over see a great team that puts these exhibits together and tell me where we are now we're in the gallery that's devoted to the memory of tim russert who was really one of the most respected journalists of our time he changed the face of sunday morning public affairs programming longest running moderator of meet the press of a. analyst at the absolute top of his game when he died so in such an untimely way and old a new friend we did major programs when we first met him at the governor's mansion in albany when he was an assistant to mario cuomo that's right and watched him come to washington worked at n.b.c. at the bureau here yes and tell me about this well we recreated the office in just

exactly the way he left it that day and i think it's a marvelous look at a journalist who's really a working newsman so you can see this was the middle of primary season he was preparing some. binders there on the upcoming primaries you can see some of the things that really inspired him around the sophos not just the work that he did which are so important but his family pictures of luke and maureen behind us his faith the big catholic so that you actually move the desk in here yes this is all the real material is that is it was the things on the best this is a real exact replica of the way he worked on a great idea the things on the wall here yeah well this is a conic white board that he used during the two thousand election to predict accurately that the key state was going to be florida to turn things around in that election you can see florida florida florida and you know the point about him was that he was a low tech he didn't need all the fancy high tech stuff he threw that white board

up there and he made big impact that night these are memorials that people left for him in white board fashion at n.b.c. after he died he was a regular guy honestly i think it was the connection he was blue collar he constantly talked about his dad who'd been a sanitation worker and he really made a connection with the viewer especially the great exhibit here at this fabulous place thank you for it keep changing have you were amazing progress they made here and then where started well we're i mean we're two hundred fifty thousand square feet we're fifteen permanent exhibits fifteen theaters two state of the art t.v. studios anything you want we've got on we go. this is our look back at the top news stories of the f.b.i.'s first century worked

real closely with the f.b.i. on this which was a real treat and we tell the good stuff in the bad stuff you know we talk about cointelpro we talk about who are they also tell about some of the great times when the media and the law enforcement work together well we're in our f.b.i. exhibit and behind you is the actual cabin that ted kaczynski otherwise known as the unabomber lived in montana in the rural wilds of montana for nearly twenty years this is the cabin where he made his deadly bombs he injured many people he killed three he was sort of a mad genius and the f.b.i. pursued him for nineteen years before they finally caught him and when they raided the cabin they found a live bomb ready to go in the cabin and the story we like to tell there oh is that there was cooperation between law enforcement and reporters because. yes the post in the times to print his thirty five thousand word manifesto and he'd stop bombing and they did and it led to his arrest credible story those are engines from there

and from one of the flights that hit the trade towers in new york that is part of the nine eleven investigation those are the shoe bomber shoes over there it's really really tough stuff. thank you for joining me on this inside look at history at the newseum in washington i hope everyone has a chance to visit here for my viewers out there i want to hear from you so there's a conversation on my facebook page and share your thoughts on twitter by tweeting and kings the eggs and using the politicking hash tag that's all for this week's politicking.

was a. very hard to take a. look again on here. that are back with the earthquake here nothing's. going to. appear. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some knocks lightly but the fact is i admire their

commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate oh. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. to become democrats. and our teenagers we have a different approach to the fellow because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. ok i've. got to stick to the jokes will handle the things that i've got to.

cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. i've put. aside. i think it kind. of. i'm. all about money and i'm actually sick for a politician write a blog or. something up. here

just to plug. in the. happy what's up people all those i'm not even in this is breaking in the set while veteran's day came and went last week day full of empty gestures and baseless rhetoric of course the main unaddressed concern during all the pageantry was the dire state of american veterans today and see just days after the holiday a shocking new report revealed that almost one million servicemen and women have been injured in iraq and afghanistan that's right one million women soldiers have visited v.a. hospitals and the start of these wars compare that to the vietnam war despite the draft the number of wounded warriors totaled just over three hundred thousand.