they were mavericks in the state was perceived as having maverick politicians including wayne morris who was called the tiger of the u.s. senate. he started out as a republican, became an independent and then a democrat in the 1950s. he was one of the two people in the senate who opposed the vietnam war. we talk about mark hatfield, part of the hatfield school government. hatfield was governor and then a us senator and he was a republican, but very liberal. bob packwood was a liberal republican us senator. of the most important politician in the state, the one that everyone talks about in the newspaper and the newspapers and others say why aren't politics like they used it to be in the 70s, was tom mccall. , call was the governor of the state in the 1970s and probably my called the golden era of portland, oregon politics when some of the most important progressive reforms were taking place in mccall was at the forefront of that reform and so routinely when people talk about oregon and oregonians talk about our political history they talk about tom mccall. one of the interesting thing

running against wayne morris, our state senator, kenny thought the key to his victory on to getting the nomination, would be to win in every different region of the country, showing that even as a catholic, which was bought to be a huge detriment back then, one of the items in this exhibit, this letter from the head of the oregon masons. they said people should oppose kennedy because he is catholic and he would be subject to the demands of the pope. one of the items from the family collection is this newspaper. it is the front page of "the dallas morning news" on november 22, 1963. it was the date of the president's death. be the last ifto not one of the last things that present kennedy ever signed. it was a paper from that morning. he signed it for the maid at the hotel. from there, he went on to the motorcade. interestingly enough, the newspaper contains a map of the motorcade. this is something that would probably not be allowed today given secret service concerns. the headline -- the texas democratic party was going through an epic battle at that time between the conservatives and t

in afghanistan killing sergeant first class christopher speer and blinding sergeant first class wayne morrisr was captured and sent to guantanamo bay where he confessed to the war crimes and was sentenced to 40 years in prison, but a plea deal reduced the sentence to eight years. omar khadr later claimed he was tortured by canadian forces. here is part of his interrogation video. watch. >> in 2010 the canadian supreme court ruled the interrogation violated canadian standards. the court left the remedy up to then prime minister stephen harper, a conservative. he decided to bring omar khadr back to canada to serve the remainder of the sentence. khadr then sue the canadian government for $16 million, but sergeant morris, who was blinded by khadr, and the family of sergeant christopher speer had already sued and won a judgment against omar khadr for $134 million. then last week liberal canadian prime minister justin trudeau not only issued a former apology to omar khadr, he paid him a reported $8.5 million even though no court had ordered him to pay a dime. the canadian press wire service says p