the 1964 two-hour cbs special report detailing the warren commission's findings with anchors walter cronkite and dan rather. find our television schedule at www.c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. us or send usail a tweet. conversation.n like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. week, american history tv's real brings you archival films the u.s. government began this construction on hoover dam in 1931. the project employed over 21,000 workers. , one of the largest man-made structures in the world when it opened in 1936. it was completed two years ahead of schedule. next, 1955 department of the interior film about the planning and the building of hoover dam. the story explains the engineering feat necessary for construction and promotes economic and recreational benefits provided by the structure. ♪ >> in 1930, president herbert hoover, for whom the dam is named, signed the bill to get it started. there was a combine of six major construction firms and men and machines went to work to build this dam of on presidents its size. a modern civil engineer

coanchored by walter cronkite and dan rather, it includes interviews with lee harvey oswald's wife and mother as well as eyewitnesses to the assassination. 22bs special report november and reports sunday at 4:00 eastern on american history tv on c-span3. all weekend long, american history tv is joining our cable partners to showcase the history of st. paul, minnesota. to learn more about the cities on our tour, visit www.c-span.org/localcontent. we continue with our look at the history of st. paul. this minnesota state capitol is the third capitol building built in st. paul. the first was built in downtown even whenn the 1850's labor still a territory. they expanded that space. the 1881, it was a brick and wood building that was no longer serving the purposes of minnesota very well. the fire burned to the ground. there was a second capital built in the same location. it was a functional space but not meeting the needs of expanding state government of minnesota. the ventilation was not very good. even a few years after that had been built and occupied, there was discussion among the leg

the news anchor walter cronkite died in 2009, the newspaper's report needed seven corrections after publication and obit wary-related record for the 161-year-old paper. pre-written obituaries are common for western news organizations. but in certain parts of the arab world, being prepared could land an o bitary writer in trouble. >> the last 50 or 60 years, there were dictatorships and dictatorships, dig is not on the card. there is no process of succession when the dictator dies. therefore, they don't think about it. and because most of the newspapers have very strong censorship, the intelligence services or the security service would be having a spy, so, you know, that suggest the leader file. >> after the 9-11 attacks, president george w. bush made the fate of osama bin laden pretty clear. >> wanted: dead or alive. so when president obama announced that the leader of al-qaeda had been killed, it's unlikely there was an o bit waries editor in the world who hadn't given some thought to man. >> we started writing it right after 9-11. by some strange intuition, two or three weeks before he was k

if i have lost walter cronkite i have lost middle america and thus lost the war. expectations -- as the war proceeded and ended, will turn on wes moreland himself. they will focus on a trip -- they will say his focus on attrition blinded him. here's the phrase we hear over and over again, if only. if only he had developed and implemented a better strategy focusing on counterinsurgency and less on enemy forces americans would have been better placed to achieve victory. if only wes moreland had fought a better war the united states would not have fought -- not have lost the war. and if only these arguments will proliferate after the war. military had been allowed to widen the scope of the military war. only the public support had remained strong. only a resolute civilian leadership had been willing to see the war through. among military critics in particular, the notion of a failed strategy remained at the heart of the arguments why the united states lost in vietnam. i think the simplistic and mistaken concepts have dominated most narratives of the vietnam war, espe

the story appeared a few minutes before 7:00 and was introduced by dan rather who had replaced walter cronkite the year before. other countries have done it for years but versions of the metric system didn't draw many and only inched along. bob schaffer has more on what it after a lot of the plot and tax dollars spent and other things to tell us why we need to go metric is in trick system that's about to go. he wasn't talking about ronald reagan didn't ask the metric system. he descended a something called the u.s. metric board delete either was playing in one of them earlier. the report went on to interview a few folks about these issues including these two who are arch enemies. tom wolfe was working on the vanities but his big point had been the right stuff of astronauts. so he goes on and was noting that nassau has managed to go to the moon and it was to blame on the blame on the collectibles he believed things were done better in europe and for the most obedient colonials when it comes to things intellectual. the other guy wolves have actually introduced and have been one of the merry pran

here is a walter cronkite special in a aired the first year i was a reporter. >> earth day a question>> the clear kays are fewer now. insteader forever, the view often stops with haze. the air is threatened. >> welcome sulfur dioxiddioxide. hello carbon monoxide. >> that's just in the air the city's rivers have a whole new dimension of pollution. >> it was bad. not that bad. some of that was network news hyster hysteria. in some towns people wouldn't open windows because soot would pour in. >> the river outside of cleveland caught fire when a spark came off of a railroad car on to the polluted water. it was purplterrible, john. >> but nothing useful after 1980? they have done nothing? >> nothing whatsoever. >> environmental protection agency. >> 50,000 in pleas. >> all looking over the holder of 50 states that do all of their bidding. the state is where the action is. we should phase out epa over a five year period and put all of the responsibility into the hands of the committee as a whole 50 state agencies move the office from washington, d.c. to topeka, kansas. improve environmenta

co-anchored by walter cronkite rather, it includes interviews with lee harvey and mother as well as eyewitnesss to the assassination. a cbs special report, november 22 and the warren report. today at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv on c-span 3. > monday night on "the communicators reques recent cators" on the data breeches at target, j.p. morgan chase, and home depot. we worked with law enforcement agencies who busted own doors and drug people out of their basement, literally. participated in scale addriest of individuals that are highly organized. they have individual specialty in rules, some writes the know how to wash the money. just like organized crime. there's pictures of it. recon photo, all of that kind of to g, everybody going in work. they go to that building, that's their job. photos of eastern european towns, for instance, number of an insane people who drive lamborghinis this.hings like spam, f that where the

he was the walter cronkite of syracuse. >> jimmy: is he still with us? >> he's not with us anymore.hair on the news desk with ron. >> jimmy: you weren't responsible for his death? no, good. i didn't know how ambitious you are. >> the mag lite did come in handy. >> jimmy: all right. so, what kind of stuff did you do at the station when you were just -- >> i'm sure he probably wondered afterwards if it was right to write back to this kid. i ended upcoming into the news room during school breaks. you're looking at me -- i feel badly for my parents. they would drive me to the tv station, you know, when i was 14, 15, on summer breaks and the first thing they would do is march me over to the doorway in the news room and they had a growth chart on the wall. every summer, they would measure how much i'd grown and they would make fun of how much lower my voice had dropped from year to year. >> jimmy: that's not humiliating at all. treat you like a kid or did they treat you like one of their coworkers? there was a decent amount of hazing. but i was in the news cruiser every day with them on s

about to drop this bombshell, and ford goes on up into the skybox in detroit, and he talks to walter cronkite. thekite has got pieces of story, and he says, are you a candidate for the vice goes on forand ford about two minutes without saying the word no. reagan is looking at this on television and goes crazy. he feels he has been betrayed. when he really says is this just shows that a co-presidency will not work, that jerry ford is not going to be that kind of a team player, and reagan turns to another and says to bush. >> now, someone who was close to those people in those days said to me that ford actually knew what he was doing, that, in fact, i do not want to say committed suicide, but that he would,t so that reagan in fact, choose bush. >> i don't know that for a fact. one thing that would argue against that, henry, is that there is plenty of evidence to show that ford wanted to run for president again in 1980, particularly if you is going to run against carter, because come are a member, harder is almost mortally wounded because of the iran-contra crisis. whatever democrats thought the

morrow and walter cronkite might have used to describe a friday night on the eve of a war, has changede biggest thing happening is high school football, tomorrow it will be college, and sunday it will be pro. the people are going about their business. they're expecting the president and the military to handle this. the country is not under serious threat of an attack. that being said, they want us to do this, get it done with the minimum exposure of our troops, get the job done, where inside of iraq, they can handle this with their neighbors. that being said, i think if there's any discussion as to what we going to do it and how we going to do it, let's leave that in the mind of the enemy, isis, to figure out what we're going to do. a little ambiguity is not bad. >> do you think that's the president's plan to keep it ambiguous when he says no boots on the ground, doesn't mean no special ops. >> the discussion we're having 30 years ago would be between washington and his congress. world war, presidents and multiple generals. same thing in the korean war. so the idea that how we going to

university, is well-known here at the museum for his many books including the recent biography of walter cronkite. our third panel is the world famous bernstein. as you saw in the video, they worked on the watergate stories from the first days and helped win the pulitzer prize for the paper. i got to know carl when we were young reporters at the washington post. his hair was dark as night, so was mine. it was an interesting pleasure to watch him go from a bright, young writer with a flamboyant writing style to an historic figure in american journalism and political lure. and, later, the author of well-reviewed books on pope john paul, ii and hillary clinton, he is now writing a book on his early years, his teen years, at the washington star for long time washingtonians. he is now the presidential professor at stonybrook university, in long island. carl was always the more colorful of the duo. bob woodward tells this story on carl back in the mid '70s when he found out president ford had pardoned former president nixon before any water gate trial. he called and said the son of a bitch just pardone

the 1964 two-hour cbs special report detailing the warren commission's findings with anchors walter cronkite and dan rather. find our television schedule at www.c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. us or send usail a tweet. conversation.n like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. week, american history tv's real brings you archival films the u.s. government began

. >> that was a news report from cbs' own walter cronkite.seven months after nazi germany surrendered. bill o'reilly lays it out in his new book "killing patton." good morning again. up said in the book first it was reported as a minor fender bender? >> yeah, the army treated it as just an accident, car accident. the general was paralyzed. he went to the hospital he never came out of the hospital. no autopsy, all the reporting, all the official documents surrounding the death disappeared. all witnesses on the car that crashed into patton disappeared. it's really -- >> you know people on the scene said the guy who was driving the other car was drunk. >> yeah. >> that you could smell the strong smell of alcohol? >> well he was never taken in never questioned if he was drunk. why wasn't he arrested by the mps? the facts that were laid out and we do call for a reinvestigation by the justice department today. know what killed this hero. i certainly don't believe this was an accident. >> you talk about the road itself -- sorry, charlie. i get excit

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then, the warren commission findings with walter cronkite and dan rather. our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. , or send us al us tweet. conversation.n like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> in the house wednesday, members voted to authorize the president to arm and train syrian rebels to fight the terrorist group isis. here is part of the debate that happened before the vote to read -- before the vote. madam speaker. i thank the chairman for yielding the time. i rise today to speak on behalf of something that i am for and that is the chairman's amendment as he has presented it. you know, madam speaker, i think that for so many of us who represent the men and women in uniform who comprise our fighting forces and who have been so diligent in this battle, in this war on terrorism. we look at these votes and certainly it causes us concern, and we know that the measure that the house is taking up is a measure as requested by the president. we recognize that. and we recognize also the se

it included bob schieffer and walter cronkite. what? the money we need to fund our schools lies right underneath your feet. that's right. down in the ground, pennsylvania has deep deposits of natural gas. but because of governor corbett, we're the only state in the country that doesn't make oil and gas companies pay an extraction tax. as governor, i'll make the gas companies pay up to help fund our schools for a change. tom wolf for governor. a fresh start for pennsylvania. >>> good morning, everyone, i'm natasha brown, following breaking news this morning, philadelphia police commissioner, says, he's confident that someone saw something, in connection with the deadly shooting after young woman, and her baby. twenty-six year old megan doto was hit by stray gunfire in frankford yesterday afternoon. doto was pregnant, and her baby was delivered, by an emergency c-section. but the baby passed away overnight. police say the shooter may have fled, in a late model white crown victoria. >>> now, to the eyewitness weather forecast, meteor

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here is walter cronkite. >> november 22, president johnson strolled kennedy was shot to death in fulliew of hundreds of spectators watching him in a dallas, texas, motorcade. 48 hours later, lee harvey oswald was killed by jack ruby in full view of millions of americans watching television. this bizarre sequence of double killings raised great questions. who actually fired the shots that killed kennedy? why did ruby shoot oswald? was there a conspiracy? was it a russian plot? a cuban plot? when did johnson ordered these questions answered. he appointed a commission of seven prominent americans to investigate the whole affair. he drafted supreme court justice earl warren as chairman. they took testimony from hundreds of witnesses and brought forth the document close to 1000 pages. the report is signed by earl warren, chief justice of the united states. richard b russell, senator from german. senator from kentucky, representative from louisiana. gerald r ford, a representative from michigan. john j mccloy, diplomat and presidential advisor. president johnson received the report on thurs

it included bob schieffer and walter cronkite.er this tree. ♪ (man) some things are worth holding onto. they're hugging the tree. (man) that's why we got a subaru. or was it that tree? (man) introducing the all-new subaru outback. love. it's what makes a subaru a subaru. >>> it is 8:55. time for some news headlines. we had at least nine people injured today three critically after a crash involving a big rig in san leandro. at least 13 vehicles were involved in the wreck. happened abdomen 3:00 in the morning -- about 3:00 in the morning on espn state 880. both northbound and southbound 880 were shut down for hours. >>> and the king fire in el dorado county is now 2500 acres. further north another wildfire is burning in novato county. >>> a big debut for the 49ers as the team played the first regular season game at levi's stadium. the night did have its disappointments. among them the niners losing to the bears 28-20. and fans experienced some of the same traffic problems that plagued previous events in santa clara. >>> that's news,

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the 1964, two-hour cbs special report detailing the warren commission's findings with anchors walter cronkitend dan rather. find our television schedule at c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. 202-626-3400. email us at comments @c-span.org. send us a tweet,@c-span with the hashtag comments. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> next, the debate between the candidates for kansas governor. incumbent sam brownback and democratic challenger paul davis took to the stage for their first debate at the kansas state fair in hutchinson. "the cook political report" has the race listed as a toss-up. we start with some political ads running in that state. >> i was raised on a farm in eastern kansas and my dad and mom still operate it. i go out to help once in a while but dad doesn't let me plant or drive the combine. i'm not old enough but the values and character, that they gave me in that hard work on that family farm is just amazing and we've got people moving back to rural kansas. that is just music to my ears. that means fami

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