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summer break for male students could change dramatically and involve lots of guns currently male russian citizens have to put a year into the armed forces but the ministry of defense thinks that they can make things easier by having students spend their summer breaks in the military this training would tie in with their future professions such as engineering students being put into military engineering position now the question is does your summer break belong to you or another words does the government have the right to tell you what to do and make you serve in the army even if just for three summers during your college years i think the answer this really depends on your culture in places which haven't been invaded countless times or have a strong individual ism streak any form of conscription sounds barbaric and oppressive but if you come from a country that is less individualistic and has been attacked invaded by pretty much every country that possibly could like russia then having a draft makes more sense i think this program could work and if i was in college i would be pumped to spend my summer vacation with some heavy artillery but this is definitely not a universal idea for all countries i don't think liberals or libertarians in
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america would take too kindly to it and rightly so but that's just my opinion. from. the famous the infamous the fascinating insight and history of instant. news. on the. inside the nation. in washington d.c. . politics. welcome to politicking with larry king one a special so we have you today we have a tour of the incredible newseum in washington d.c.
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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 album is world structure come along for the trip. to the gallery which detains this suit worn by a football legend slitted of murder and a door where events behind lead to
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a presidency can teach you that. for all we know where big news history gallery where we tell the story of five centuries of news history when important 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 suv 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 it was just brought me to los angeles and i was in that office would do. gee you go right by invitation so we cover the bad in 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
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also a few mistakes that have been made along the way. look at these kind of weird when you've interviewed people. since going back to one 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
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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. 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 for 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 egoistic it's refused it's one of the things i do to fix the wrong thing to insure my guest is frank zappa sister's a 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
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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 is 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 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
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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 we go to the exhibit. was delivered to a shade. ninety three straight days after nine eleven forget 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
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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 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
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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
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nation is you know from then your reporting that day how chaotic it was and how hard it was to report. any person who comes to washington must come here. but 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 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
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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 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 helped 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 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.
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next week civil rights exhibit the chase house do 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 a young marion barry and louis new orleans people yeah these are the student leaders from the time they were part of
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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 and to do this 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 all the time we are and we might want to ask you for a few new things. new thing you want our right even have the internet are she featured somewhere along the way due where 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 write yeah we have a wonderful department that does our own in-house video and this is a video about that era in the civil rights movement.
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to the. eason's he had people there's already been plenty to celebrate space december on this month's show we learn how the future tense so lazy section stone called to make me beats with an instant messenger and there's been a new shoot exoskeleton makes likely it could really take. a year on. dramas that can't be ignored to. stories others through the fuselage in the. faces changing the world right. to picture of details. from around the globe.
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look to. sally hammer braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giant chevron. this comes after a massive 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 again and it's just one of the front lines.
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jamie diamond is a guy who's begging to be euthanized and i think as a country as a world we should get together and answer his wish he wants to become one with his maker he says look i broke the law please arrest me i want to go to jail and be abused by hundreds of thousands of inmates and so on godly way that's my goal in life i'm tired of being free put me in prison i beg you so he breaks more and more laws but unfortunately the law breaking becomes the basis of the g.d.p. for a country of qatar so like america and they can't put him in jail because i need him out there breaking the law so they can pay themselves huge bonuses at the end of the year so he's really is an existential crisis. our first stop is here in all ends of the ginger. boil the pigs the side of the
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battle of evil genius and we were raised that famous flag those four soldiers all of whom would later screw. the united states raising money for the war and there's the prospect god is still live in that building when i was standing there for days or a. hour at one of the most famous corners that washington longer of wisconsin and then in his star at georgetown georgetown university is still bogged down president john kennedy live three blocks up the road this is the famous shopping one a lot of restaurants lot of large and on hollow we can move on those three. young people in washington dressed in the weirdest costumes congregating here. and now at the historic yet now memorial and main brilliance is that all the names of those who died are are on this wall and when you walk by you see yourself
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in the wall as if to say were 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 of the action to the ground and shovels one of the ground to build a small moro 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 money vietnam memorial. many palms in america i dine at the common l.a. the palms and palm and natural fall in miami but this is. a palm in washington
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ready at least. right on the job. in the in the very cute kid from brooklyn. we have been changing for thirty five years ago i didn't seem. to be up to date newspapers in new york you know it's very morning prepared to meet your needs and over time to come in your. picture every person. yes or no. page here forty years forty percent of. the my book is going to be nobody knows the troubles i'm. sixty years since james gazes. so this is some of those leaders that.
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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 and apprehension in the texas theater. called poorest of them so 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 the
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shooting of officer tippit the capture of oz well and then the first live broadcast murder on national television when. and 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 bell and 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 of us i saw in route having the first thing i saw all my life want to be in a movie the. news machine yeah there is the bells used to ring the ticker teletype machines like this one spread the news of
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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 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 the carry microphones and big tape recorders big cameras and 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. go number and they'll still have to be human people doing this robots to not use those. yet you have to. do it inside libya timorous itself was up next. with kathy trosa
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of the fabulous newseum in washington i remember when this was just a dream about a new hoss we started in rosalind and kathy 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
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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 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 desk 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 i can take a 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
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was 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 and 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 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.
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this is our look back at the top news stories of the f.b.i.'s first century work 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. the post in the times to print his thirty five thousand word manifesto and he'd stop bombing
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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 at king's dave's and using the at politicking hash tag that's all for this week's politicking. the beginning of the unknown politic night marks in the face from island life.
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