from the ken burns documentary "the u.s.amiliar. >> no group was more adamantly opposed to admitting jewish refugees than the german american bund. 20,000 members would fill madison square garden on washington's birthday. they were led by fritz kuehne, a german immigrant who fancied himself the american fuhrer. >> what we are actively fighting for under our charter, first, a social just, white, gentile-ruled united states. second -- [ applause ] gentile-controlled labor union free from jewish moscow-directed domination. [ applause ] >> other speakers railed against the president, frank d. rosenfeld, and his jew deal. >> we only call upon our leader to awake to the fact that the jew is alien in body mind and soul as any other non-aryan and he's 1,000 times more dangerous to us than all the others by reason of his parasitic nature. >> joining our coverage emmy award-winning filmmaker and documentarian our dear friend ken burns. the new documentary is about leonardo da vinci. from the horrors to the glorious. let's start with t

ken burns, baseball. the idea, home plate has a little roof, blue roof. it has a roof. it's a little house. it brings us back to we're safe and where we care, where we are cared about, where we're loved. coming home on a baseball that happens pretty darn dramatic. you feel immense relief to have gotten out of all those hazards out there between first and third is hazardous territory. and then third home is joy you're out of trouble, you're coming back and you're running toward the home team dugout. you can see them and they're all grinning and they're glad to see you and their arms out and you come across that thing. it's pretty big playing stuff. it's passed along from parents to children and my father was a football fan, but my mother a baseball fan. so i went ball games with my mother. she passed along her sense of the game. i'll pass it along to. my son, it is a family heirloom. it is america's heirloom because it goes back so far. but the thing that's most important about that is that we and people of other generations, baseball, perhaps more than we respect other

one thing that really struck in my mind was ken burns superb documentary series on vietnam.nk it was the third installment where mcnamara and johnson are on the phone together. mcnamara is saying to johnson, mr. president, ho chi minh, the revolutionary leader, has been pushed aside in hanoi. there is a new fellow. what you had was the secretary of defense telling the president that the leadership of our enemy had changed. the president had never curved of -- heard of him. when that was uncovered through the pentagon papers, it was devastating. he probably would have told me he read that. the truth is it was a devastating document of what happened to us as we went into vietnam not knowing what we were doing. remember, this was 1995. he wanted us to avoid doing similar things in the world. we all know what happened in afghanistan and iraq. major wars in countries we really did not understand. if mcnamara had lived to see that, he probably would have said that the lessons were not learned. >> in 1995, the book came out. the coverage was hsh a review was skating. someone said t

eastern for the national constitution center in philadelphia towards the filmmaker ken burns 2020 foroiting the american story want american history tv about saturdays on "c-span2", frontal schedule new program guide or watch online anytime at cspan.org/history. >> book tv, every sunday at "c-span2", features pleading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books, here's a look at what is coming up this weekend, at 6:30 p.m. eastern, history professor evan break with a history of bookstores and their role of american culture with his book, the bookshop entity p.m. eastern, best selling author john grisham and his co-author jim share their book, right about the challenges of that exonerating a person who is wrongfully convicted pretty than 10:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards, journalist explaining how a nearly forgotten lifesaving healing virus could be groundbreaking in treating a deadly infectious diseases with her book of the living medicine usa today, health reporter adriano rodriguez. want to tv every sunday on "c-span2", and find a full schedule new program guide watch online any

kevin ken burns series on the civil war on why more had to be that he has long insisted that he's wasn't better president than lincoln and so this av better than george washington. >> let me talk about something that was missed in well, all the clips that you played this something that was missing, there was a great strategic opportunity, again, as a strategist that he really whiffed on, there's somebody watching fox news and that's a bunch of nikki haley supporters and they literally served him up a softball to say something nice about nikki haley, and he could not help himself and he went down a rabbit hole of talking about how he walked her in the primary murray's and she's no good. let me say one thing. she got 76,000 votes in that primary and wisconsin and jill biden won that state by less than 20,000 every one of those votes or lot goal. because as a strategist, they vote like it's their job. they vote in a republican primary. promise you, they're coming back to vote in a general, it's such, it's an important point about the strategy or lack there and a lot of this, i mean, here's

eastern, the national constitution center in philadelphia awards ken burns the 2024 liberty medal fortory teller. and watch historic presidential elections and what made them historic and issues and lasting impact on the nation. the election of 1980 in a land lied victory, ronald reagan defeated jimmy carter winning 489 electoral votes in 44 states. and lectures and history, university of dallas history professor discusses the decades leading to the 1787 constitutional convention and the compromisees that led to the constitution. exploring watch american history tv and find the full schedule or watch online any time at c-span. org/history. >> this election night, c-span delivers something different, not just the presidential race but the state races that will decide the balance of power. no political pundits, no spin, no commissioners, just the candidates, the results and you. follow c-span this election night beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern live tuesday, november 5, on tv, online or on the free c-span now video app. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government and funded by these t

we're so one of the things that started me in my vicksburg was i was so angry with ken burns, a good friend. ken, i think a magnificent series on the civil war. but he passed vicksburg like a nanosecond. and i thought that's a pretty big battle, you know, and i understand why he didn't have photography and few documentary filmmaker you don't have images. you can't do the battle. that was a magnificent series, although must confess that relying shelby foote to the extent that he did, didn't exactly provide the most balanced perspective, including you know, i wish allan nevins were alive or. yes, yes, bruce catton would have been mcpherson. i was reading the bruce catton grant takes command. someone gave it to me right before i went to the shoot. yeah, it was really great. well, ladies and gentlemen, i hope that you now see why we kept trying year, year after year, to get this great emeritus on this stage in this great location here, which is so tied again to the movement that helped to win the civil war in the end. and to add to this. 262nd birthday celebration of america's ulysses. th

missy elliott, ending a manziel, queen latifah, spike lee, ken burns and steven spielberg.hosted a reception for those recipients -- mr. biden hosted a reception for those recipients. still to come on the news hour, elon musk's massive effort to elect donald trump and dean influence over the government agencies that regulate his companies. tamara keith and amy walter break down the latest political headlines. and the widow of alexei navalny act discuss his posthumous bio. announcer: this is the pbs news hour from w eta in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. geoff: the world's richest man, elon musk is now a powerful mega donor for donald trump. he is using his vast resources to campaign for him in pennsylvania and taking aggressive measures for mr. trump in other key battleground states. some of the moves are raising major legal and ethical concerns. bill young are entrepreneur -- billionaire entrepreneur elon musk is unveiling a new tactic pledging to randomly award $1 million to registered swing state voter

eastern, ken burns is awarded with the 2024 liberty metal for his work as an american storyteller. then watch a historic presidential elections, explain what gave the elections historic in different eras and the lasting impact on the nation. this week, the election of 1980 in a landslide victory where ronald reagan defeated incumbent democratic president jimmy carter, winning 489 electoral votes on 44 states. and on lectures in history, university of dallas history professor discusses the decade leading to the 1787 constitutional convention and the key compromises that led to the ratification of the u.s. constitution. explore the american story on american history tv saturdays on c-span 2 and find a full schedule or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> this election night, c-span offers something different. not just the presidential race, but the state races that will decide the balance of power in congress. no pundits, no spins, no commercials. just the candidates, results and you. follow c-span this election night beginning at 7:00 p.m. eastern on tuesday, november 5, o

let me leave you with some parting thoughts from one of the greatest documentaries of all time ken burnslue roof it has a blue roof it's a little house. i'm brings us back to where we are safe, where we care and where we are cared about. we are loved. i am at home baseball diamonds pretty dramatic pretty feel immense relief to have gone out all those hazards out there. between first and third is hazardous territory. and third home is joint you're out of trouble, you're coming back running toward the home team at dugout. doocy than they're grinning there glad to see the arms are out they come across. ♪ ♪ ♪ passed along from parents to children my father was a football fan but my mother was a baseball fan so went to ball tos with my mother. she passed along and i will pass it along to my son. it is a family heirloom that goes back and what's the most important about that is that we respect the people of other generations perhaps more than other fields in this country is called of a disposable society. we treat them as though they aru equal and contemporary. very special. ♪ baseball because

ken burns, baseball. the idea, home plate has a little roof, blue roof. it has a roof. it's a little house. it brings us back to we're safe and where we care, where we are cared about, where we're loved. coming home on a baseball that happens pretty darn dramatic. you feel immense relief to have gotten out of all those hazards out there between first and third is hazardous territory. and then third home is joy you're out of trouble, you're coming back and you're running toward the home team dugout. you can see them and they're all grinning and they're glad to see you and their arms out and you come across that thing. it's pretty big playing stuff. it's passed along from parents to children and my father was a football fan, but my mother a baseball fan. so i went ball games with my mother. she passed along her sense of the game. i'll pass it along to. my son, it is a family heirloom. it is america's heirloom because it goes back so far. but the thing that's most important about that is that we and people of other generations, baseball, perhaps more than we respect other

took a spirited the desert tour fall and here that's on the whole trip they showed us that he and ken burns had produced and it was absolutely spectacular. his most regret excuse me his most recent collaboration with burns is a documentary, the american buffalo. duncan has also been involved in many conservation organizations. president bill clinton, him chair of the american heritage rivers advisory committee and secretary of the interior bruce babbitt, appointed him to the board of the national park foundation. and in the spring of 2009, the director of the national park service named duncan as an honorary park ranger, an honor bestowed on fewer 50 people. his on the boards of the student conservation association and the national conservation lands foundation, and is a member of the advisory committee. the 2016 centennial of the national park service. please give a warm savannah. welcome to dayton duncan. thanks very much. can everybody hear in the back? good. i was given a speech one time and i could tell that i'd kind of lost the audience. and so i said, is there a problem? someone in t

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this weekend, the national constitution center in philadelphia awards ken burns his 2024 liberty medaly of work. at 7:00 p.m. eastern, watch historic presidential elections. exploring what made these elections historic and their lasting impact on the nation. this week, the election of 1980. ronald reagan defeated incumbent democratic president jimmy carter winning 489 electoral votes and 44 states. on lectures in history, the university of dallas history professor discusses the decades leading to the 1787 constitutional convention and the key compromises that led to the ratification of the u.s. constitution. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span two. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch any time on c-span.org/history. >> c-span now is a free mobile app featuring your unfiltered view of what's happening in washington. live and on-demand. keep up with the biggest events with live streams from floor proceedings to hearings at the u.s. congress. white house events, campaigns and more from the world of politics all at your fingertips. you can stay current with the lat