i'm from australia, to new york, and, uh, i was looking for comedians, and my agent told me that ken murray around looking for a job. i said to ken, "oh--" and i interviewed him, and he said, "very good," and i said, "how much," and he said, "oh, i want "a hundred dollars a week." i said, "all right." >> that's pretty good sized money, isn't it? >> yeah. >> ken murray did the blackout >> for a long time, yeah. >> for 20 or 30 years. what kind of an act did you have? >> i had a-- it was an act-- i'll tell you how it happened, johnny. i was an electrician, and i wanted to come to america at any cost. >> you were in australia at that time? >> i was in australia. and of course, you can't-- nobody could get in america, especially in those days. so i said, "well, let me make "a vaudeville act. "an act that's got in." so i made a vaudeville act, and accidentally i tipped the statue over "i'll do in my vaudeville act," and i did it. i made a statue of a real woman, fell over, broke to pieces, come back together again, and went down and bowed. >> and that's the way you got to this country. >> that's

murray. please join me to welcome ken walsh and our death -- and our guests. coming. i want to thank the panelists for being here and the smithsonian for being here and ruth robbins for organizing it. i want to thank you for being here. it is a very emotional time, and ruth and i were talking about whether we should show a clip, we were thinking about showing a saturday night live clip, but it felt like too much levity and we decided not to do it. i sure you are all aware of the portrayals of trump and clinton by alec baldwin and kate mckinnon, that we decided to did not feel appropriate. instead, i am going to give you some clips of abraham lincoln. as i say, it is a very emotional time for a lot of people. hillary clinton supporters are really sort of reeling and they expected to have a big win today. most of the pollsters felt that hillary clinton would win, maybe not so big, but that she would win. and now we have donald trump who is now president-elect. he met with president obama today at the white house, they were supposed to be for 15 or 20 minutes and

murray. please join me in a warm welcome for ken walsh and our most distinguished guest. [applause] >> thank you for coming. paneliststhank the for being here. for ruth robbins for organizing and. -- organizing it. it is very emotional time right now. we thought of showing a saturday night live clip but it did not feel right. we decided not to do it. i am sure you are aware of the portrayals of trump and clinton by alec baldwin and kate mckinnon. we decided not to do it. i will give you a couple of quotes from abraham lincoln. it is a very emotional time for a lot of people. hillary clinton supporters really are reeling. they expected to have a big win today. most of the posters felt hillary clinton -- pollsters felt hillary clinton would win. and now we have donald trump who was president-elect. he met with president obama today at the white house. they met for about 90 minutes in that very familiar setting. for trump supporters, this is a time of jubilation and a small degree of gloating. diligence, i checked the numbers. a little bit of fluctuation. voteshas 290 electo

murray. please join me in a warm welcome for ken walsh and our most distinguished guests. [applause] kenneth: thank you all for coming. i want to thank the panelists first of all for being here and the smithsonian for sponsoring this and ruth robbins for organizing it. i want to thank you for being here and for our c-span audience for watching. it's a very emotional time right now. we were talking earlier, should i show a clip or something? we were thinking of showing a "saturday night live" clip. it didn't feel right, it felt like too much levity there, so we decided not to do it. i'm sure you are aware of the portrayals of trump and clinton by alex baldwin and kate. but we decided it didn't feel appropriate, so we decided not to do it. instead, i'm going to give you a couple of quotes from abraham lincoln that might be more appropriate. it's a very emotional time for a lot of people. hillary clinton supporters really sort of reeling. they expected to have a big win today. a lot of pollsters, most of the pollsters, felt that hillary clinton would win. maybe not so big, bu

murray. please join me in a warm welcome for ken walsh and our most distinguished guest. [applause] kenneth: thank you-all for coming. i want to thank the panelists first of all for being here and the smithsonian for sponsoring this and ruth rob bins for organizing it. i want to thank you for being here and for our c-span audience for watching. it's a very emotional time right now. we were talking earlier, should i show a clip or something? we were thinking of showing a saturday night live clip. it didn't feel right it felt like too much levity there so we decided not to do t i'm sure you are aware of the portrayals of trump and clinton by alex baldwin and kate. but we decided we didn't feel appropriate. so we decided not to do t instead i'm going to give you a couple of quotes from abraham lincoln that mibet more appropriate. it's very emotional time for a lot of people. hillary clinton supporters really sort of reeling. they expected to have a big win today. a lot of pollsters, most of the pollsters, felt that hillary clinton would win. maybe not so big, but that they f