. >> we want to take >> this is lowell thomas speaking, bringing you the pictures of the murder of the king of yugoslavia and the foreign minister of france. tragedy approaches swiftly now. in that gala multitude lurks a man with a pistol, bound by a blood oath to kill the king. he was a croatian terrorist, and he's ready to strike. he strikes on the running board. he's slashed down by saber strokes. straying bullets hit the crowd. women fall wounded, hit by the random bullets. the police overwhelm him, trample him. somebody picks up the instrument of death: that devilish automatic pistol. this historical film document was made by the fox movietone cameramen. the french seized it, released it, and seized it again. but now movietone, thanks to the speed of the s.s. "washington," is enabled to present this, the most historic film document of our time. >> thanks to the speed of the ocean liners. newsreels were a fact of life for decades. no one would have predicted by the mid-sixties, 1960s, they'd completely disappear, but that's what happened. why? television. the immediacy of televisio

cummings, lowell thomas, the commonest activist was a member of the country.american first move was a politically potent that they were actually making plans to open up a campaign office and every congressional district for 1942 to support the most isolationist candidate running for office whether the republican and democrat, and there were many members of roosevelt own democratic party it was strident isolationists. >> on that issue, too, the united mine workers were isolationists. >> right. >> unusual. but you also indicate prior to the seventh that campuses, college campuses where moe -- were more pro-war? >> there were some academics and intellectuals. interesting fact, along the coast and along in the cities, among the intellectual class and editorialists there were more interest in helping churchill and great britain but that's because they were more democratic with a campuses and they knew where fdr was, where his thinking was. but then if you go down the middle of the country, the real parts of the country, there are more isolationists. >> anyone else?

one particular time, i remember after the afternoon was getting late and his golf partners -- lowell thomas, judge murphy from new york city, edward r. murrow -- they wanted to continue playing at the park. they asked me to caddy. it was getting late in the day. i said that i am about 8 miles away. i need a ride when we are through. one gentleman spoke up and said, don't worry, i will take you. when they finished, that man got in his car left and i when they finished, that man got in his car left and i was stranded there. governor dewey saw to it that i had a ride back to the village. i would never forget that. i was very grateful for him. >> that was bill in new york. mike, staten island, new york. >> had mr. dewey won the 1944 election, what would be his policy as far as ending the war? >> 1944, did he say? ok. >> i think it is a fair question. if you look at the calendar and you see where the armies were in january of 1945, i think at that point announcing defeat was only a question of time. how dewey might have conducted diplomacy differently if it had been him meeting churchill and sta