tv Politicking With Larry King RT December 27, 2013 12:29am-1:01am EST
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acquired this for the museum 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 ben bradley at the washington post yeah 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 mcgregor's the presses as watchdogs on all of us. i got my job through the washington post gerald ford who succeeded nixon credible place folks you're listening to the larry king show live from the beaches capital to give my existing let's review is one one of the things i do to fix the wrong thing to consider my guest is frank zappa sister's a prickly testify with others that do what does this say that hearing in t.v. is going to telecast it live while votes on a museum. you bet among the most notable journalists in the newseum is
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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 filled the year that is the show on that's true what does this whole section this is the history of news through three hundred fifty newspapers and magazines people going from here and push back to find people yes you can find other journalists but you can also find a front pages of history you can call them up there's 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 right it 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 because 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
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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 . to a shake. i want ninety three straight days after nine eleven forget the sorry to 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
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around the gallery the story that they told on nine twelve and through 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
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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
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nation is you know from that 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 rather. this is the berlin wall. it is the side that faced freedom these are real pieces of the berlin wall and behind it guard tower that stood there checkpoint charlie the guards had to pull themselves up by ladders they didn't have it to for 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
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ever built to keep people in not to keep people out and the story right on this side of the 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 signal the end of the soviet era. so there are fifteen permanent exhibits area and then there's three visiting temporary exhibits for always changing up exhibits and adding new things to the mix this whole building is so incredible we're. touching history careful one can know this is the. next we go to the civil rights exhibit the jays are still leaders made their voices
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are. 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 a young marion barry lewis new orleans 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
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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 it was a done and. it's all but 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 for new things on which we are and we might want to ask you for a few new things. new things you want our right you even have the internet archie featured somewhere along the way do we're 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.
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these labels a big hammer braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a mass hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that some have dubbed the gulag of our times. it's an undeclared global battlefield in which a young man is just one of the front lines. that all. the millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone
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offers a lifetime food supply no charge they carry said they can the very strong position against kimmel and we think that's. the genetic anymore the right products are priest. there is no. evidence that there is any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in the most crap i don't get enough to destroy the poor and that free. enterprise is profit not. for social justice golden rice barkeep. the new super secret laboratory to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which will unfortunately doesn't give
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speak your language. will use programs and documentaries in arabic in school here on the altar reporting from the we'll talk about that in the ip interviews intriguing story for you good q. has been trying. to find out more visit our big teeth dog called. our first stop is here in all ends in virginia this famously with. the pigs this side of the battle of the woods jima and we were raised that famous flag and those four soldiers all of whom would later prove the united states raising money for the
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war and there's the prospect gosh i still live in that building when i was seven. different days her. power at one of the most famous corners in washington corner of wisconsin and in historic georgetown georgetown university is two blocks down president john kennedy live three blocks up the road this is the famous shopping going to a lot of restaurants bottom are not hollow we. move on those three. young people in washington dressed in the weirdest costumes congregating here. for now at the historic yet namo morial and main bridges says 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
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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 those they do a special on p.b.s. and i host the best special and i remember when they put the the actions of the ground and shovels one of the ground to build a small moro i had no idea it would come out looking this on the side of the road this is. a very hard so. very warm very human very sad very important mind vietnam memorial. many of them are a guy john is the common l.a. the palms and often metropolitan miami but this is off the promenade watching ready to lead the.
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fight on the jungle like the in the world. kid from brooklyn. we haven't changed in thirty five years ago i couldn't see. out of our own. age newspapers in new york and it was very morning prepared to meet here in omaha to come in your own party and pictures from every president pictures of yes we're still. here forty years and my fortieth anniversary. in my book is going to be nobody knows the trouble side. fifty years this j.f.k.'s assassination next visit the chronicles the events that day. this goes without saying. but we're in the fiftieth anniversary year of president kennedy's death one of the most to most with things that ever happened to
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america and we wanted to mark that here in the newseum. here 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. poorish them i'm 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 know this is above but 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 while in the first live broadcast murder on national television when ruby shot oswald that sunday so this
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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 is 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 of us and i saw 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
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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 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 carry microphones and big tape recorders big cameras were a moment of 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 them around and they'll still have to be human people doing this robots cannot use those. yet yet you can. do it inside look at the seas tumorous and saucers up next. will have kept the dross and the fabulous newseum in washington i remember when this was just
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a dream about a new hans we saw it in rosalind. 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 oversee 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 a. journalist 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 i 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. the head of 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
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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 this office 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 desk this is a real exact replica of the way he worked on a great idea and 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 low tech he didn't need all the fancy high tech stuff he threw that whiteboard up there and he made a big impact that night these are memorials that people left for him in white board
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fashion at n.b.c. after he died he was a regular guy on this thing about 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 keeps changing and the word 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
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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. 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
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and from one of the flights that hit the trade towers in new york that's 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 and 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 at king's legacy and using the ad politic the hash tag that's all for this week's politicking. leave us here on this idea that we live in a democratic society if you abuse the instruments of democratic power then you actually do want living in a democratic power
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a more. social science center just published a study suggesting that two thirds of the muslims in western europe hold their religious roles and the laws of the countries that believe if you read the bible if you get if you go into christianity you find the sentence that you should obey god more than caesar. means religious schools more important and more convincing those of the students of the very same thing that is now referred to the muslims. why is the price of gold so high. demand global demand do you think it was money. the value of the only place we have to live of the water that we need to survive
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it's not compared to i mean gold we're not going to eat gold we're not going to be told. we're not going to drink we're clearly one of all is and it's in a desperate economic situation absolutely right what we're wrong to do is say therefore any kind of economic development from the outside is going to be a benefit their only purpose is to extract as much money as possible to feed into the global financial system. with heart. geo political economic system it's extremely or split territory. first of all it's a question whether mining should even be carried out altogether can it be done in a way which doesn't destroy people's lives resources environment well you know
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those are pretty serious questions mining is not a what a moment problem it's happening in asia in africa and south america in central america in mexico and it's even happening in canada and the united states. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c fox news have taken some not slightly 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. that was funny but it's closer to the truth from might think. it's because one whole attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're going to come. out our teen years we have a different thread. though because the news of the world just is not this funny
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i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how. you guys sort of jeff's well handled the stuff that i've got. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can but a strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetic anymore the fate products are. due to. there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering when you make a deal. or is free cheese always in a mouse trap i don't believe that. the free. enterprise
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syrian and international chemical experts converge on moscow to discuss how damascus can get its toxic arsenal out of the country a condition that prevented an american strike on the war torn state and that's among the stories that made the year twenty thirteen. saudi blogger and activist faces execution for rejecting islam after already being sentenced to seven years in prison and six hundred lashes we talked to human rights campaigner about his case. and the british economy could limp past a sluggish germany within the next two decades say new forecast but for those who are not part of the affluent to lead there is little cause to celebrate.
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