one of the -- of the story, is and i've often wondered if this is true or not, oliver wendell holmes who became famous later, was said to have said get down, you fool, meaning get down before you get shot. i doubt that that happened, but there are people that said that that is what oliver wendell holmes said, but this is the only time that a president of the united states has actually been under fire while president of the united states, so abraham lincoln here, standing on the parapet looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs site, c-span.org/history. and watch american artifacts every sunday at 8:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >>> the john f. kennedy presidential library convened a discussion on jfk and civil rights. in this discussion, this panel is discussing the president's actions on civil rights. this program is just over one hour. >> so, if we could have your attention. we'll now go to our next panel on the presidencies of john f. kennedy and lyndon baines johnson. so now it is afternoon. g

the supreme court of the united states, in the first case they ever considered, oliver holmes write writing the opinion, say no free speech there. he goes to jail. while in jail he gets 1 million votes. the united states then develops over the next 70 years the most robust protection of free speech in the united states. but it doesn't always live up to it. so we have the mccarthy era and so on. we think that we have the best system. but now we're in a world where we have a global communications system, and censorship anywhere, like singapore, is censorship everywhere. it's not human rights for people in singapore any more, it's our interests in knowing what's happening in singapore and our interests in knowing the world. so when the minister of law of sing por says, look, we completely reject your notion, and the reason we reject it is on the merits. it's not because we want to be a regressive government, it's because we believe that you are showing by the way in which you've constructed your free speech that you cannot have a functioning system. look at the polarization in your society. lo

i doubt that happened, but there are people that said that is what oliver wendell holmes has said. abraham lincoln here standing on the parapit looking out to see where the enemy troops actually were. >> you can watch this and other american artifacts programs anytime by visiting our web site c-span.org. and watch american artifacts every sunday here on c-span 3. >>> the john f. kennedy presidential library commenced a library. in this discussion, this panel is discussing the president's actions on civil rights. this program is just over one hour. >> so, if we could have your attention. we'll now go to our next panel on the presidencies of john f. kennedy and lyndon johnson. >> all right. so now it is afternoon. good afternoon. and remembering that we're honoring two presidents. george washington and abraham lincoln. here is something from abraham lincoln that seems fit this afternoon. the probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the cause we believe to be just. that seems to be very appropriate for our conversation of civil rights in the united state

lesson of robert pen warren's pragmatism, lesson from the war, but i was teaching this morning oliver wendell holmes jury who injured three times in the war, in the chest, in the neck, and comes out of that experience, went into the war as one of the maybe relatively few abolitionist officers, and comes out of the war convinced his moral passions and of his colleagues were foolish mistakes. so it frames our moral modesty. >> passion itself. >> but it also frames the passionate social projects that people have engaged in ever since so the civil rights movement borrows on the long that the woman's rights movement borrows powerfully. so we have all of these social movements that organize themselves around the models of on 0lition as the one great relatively pure example of extraordinary reform but at the same time modest by the same events. >> i want to make a quick argument. for why slavery is a little different. if you look at a state like south carolina or mississippi, you're talking about the majority of the people there are enslaved, i think slavery is i guess i'm going to go here, i think it's a

i was just teaching this morning oliver wendell holmes jr. injured three times in the war, shot in the chest, shot in the neck, ball's bluff, antietam and chancellorsville and comes out of that experience -- and went into the war as one of the maybe relatively few abolitionist officers and comes out of the war convinced that his moral passions and the moral passions of his colleagues were foolish mistakes. so it frames our moral modesty. >> the passion itself was the problem. >> that's right. but it also frames the passionate social projects that people have engaged in ever since. so the civil rights movement borrows on the language of the abolitionists. the women's rights movement of the 19th century borrows powerfully. so we have all of these social movements that organize themselves around the wolmodels abolition as the one great relatively, relatively pure example of extraordinary social reform in our country. but also we're called on to be modest at the same time by the same events. >> i want to make a quick argument arguing for why slav

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he was thrown in jail, and the supreme court, in the first case ever accepted, oliver wendell holmes, saying no free speech here. he goes to jail, and while in jail he gets a million votes. the united states develops over the next 70 years the most robust protection of free speech in the united states, but it does not always live up to it. we have the mccarthy era and so on. we think we have the best system, but now we are in a world of or have -- where we have a global communications system, and censorship anywhere, like in singapore, is censorship everywhere. it is not human rights anymore, it is our interest in knowing what is happening in singapore and in the world. when the minister of law in singapore says we completely reject your notion, it is not because we want to be an oppressive government, it is because we believe that you are showing, by the way you constructed your free speech, that you cannot have a functioning system. look at the polarization in your society. look at what happens when you let people say anything. look what happens when people can say how the judiciar