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Grade School Classroom: MCU pointing to class calendar. Why is November 24th marked differently than the other day? CU calendar as the 3rd Thursday in November is explored, marked differently because it highlights the Thanksgiving Holiday, ceramic turkey is superimposed over the date. MS teacher pointing to calendar as class listens.
Calendar: Days, Weeks, Months
Grade School Classroom: CU calendar as How many Days in Month is explained. GV classroom as boy returns to his seat, girl raising her hand in the back is asked to come forward. MS girl standing next to teacher at the head of the class, she recites a helpful poem about the days per month.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
10.02 Hodding Carter in studio The abortion question may or may not affect the 1986 elections but legislative decisions must be made earlier. We discussed prospects on the hill with two leaders in the fight. Republican Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey and head of the pro-life caucus in the House and Democratic Representative Pat Schroeder of Colorado, a longtime leader of the pro-choice forces.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
10.24 Hodding Carter. Congressman Smith, where are we exactly in legislation as opposed to rhetoric on the Hill? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). The Legislation is principally focused on denying funding for abortions. We have made significant gains over the last five years in the area of the federal employee s health benefits program, in the area of denying funds to those organizations that actively perform or promote abortions in the third world. These are all new gains that have been made in the last couple of years. Hodding Carter. But this year? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). This year we went on the international front, the foreign front. I offered two amendments that did prevail. That tried to divest ourselves from the corrosive abortion in China. And the other amendment dealt with denying organizations like International Planned Parenthood Federation of London money if they get out of the abortion component.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
11.17 Hodding Carter. Is that description, the description of chipping away at the decision made 12 years ago in the Supreme Court? Is there a steady progress or an erosion of how you look at it on this front? Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado) Well let s make it perfectly clear what s happened. First of all, there s been no federal funding for abortions for a long time or public funding of abortions. And where they re really going now, if you get through all the obfixation, where they re really going now is closing down family planning. Hodding Carter. How? Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). They re doing it by saying promote abortion . In other words there saying, any clinic that mentions to a woman that abortion is an option, therefore is promoting it, pushing it, driving it even though it is not federally funded. And therefore they cannot have their funding. This is very difficult for doctors working in those clinics and for professional people because if you have a woman who say is a health risk who has all sorts of other problems, you can t even tell her about one option which is a constitutional right. Or all your federal funding is denied even though none of that federal funding would go to abortion. So we re moving into a very extreme position. We re doing it internationally, domestically and it really was the U.S. policy that was articulated in Mexico City, on the International family planning policy and everybody was stunned, never thought it would be implemented and that s where we are today on Capitol Hill is implementing that policy.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
12.44 Hodding Carter. Now let me make sure of this though, you say that s where we are implementing it. On the domestic front has the legislation actually passed that implements that in the various planning clinics? Or are we where? Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). The legislation passed dealing with it internationally. So International Planned Parenthood can do it. We now have moves to do it internally domestically for low income families. Hodding Carter. And what s the status of that move? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). It s pending. The appropriations committee and the full House have not taken it up yet. But, I think many I have found in talking to other members, most of them were not aware of that Planned Parenthood for instance runs the largest chain of abortion mills in the country, some 44 clinics. They performed in 1984 some 87,000 abortions. Very often they emphasize other aspects of their services, which most members including myself don t disagree with. Hodding Carter. Let me interrupt, sorry. Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). But we are trying to put a wall of separation between the termination of a life and prevention. Prevention, I don t think there is any problem with members on the Hill. It s the termination. Hodding Carter. Do you agree with that? Do you agree with that description? Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). I don t agree with that at all. I find it stunning that they make those arguments because it always seemed to me, first of all, there s an underlying message in what he s saying. And that message is that women really like abortions. I know of no woman, no woman who would use that as birth control. I think the birth control and family planning clinics are preventing abortions because they are giving people any other option. They are trying to show people how you can prevent unwanted pregnancies.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
14.16 Hodding Carter. Let me ask you is the process of undoing Roe going at a faster rate? Slower? Where are we now up on Capitol Hill? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). I would suggest that we are moving much swifter than we have been in the past. The President has been able to put in several key positions, judicial appointments. Men and Women who respect the sanctity of life. There s an infrastructure that is developing throughout the country and among the federal courts that long time will help to further erode Roe v. Wade. Hodding Carter. But let me interrupt you. But what has happen to two major threats that I can recall not long ago were both a Constitutional amendment and statutory prohibition? Both devices as I see it aren t going somewhere at this point. Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). We have never had in the House or the Senate the 2/3rds majority for a constitutional amendment. The amendment is introduced, it is a talking point, hopefully at some point we ll be in a position where 2/3rds will be there. Constitutional amendments are very, very difficult to achieve. Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). And what they haven t been able to do, frontally, they ve done around the edges. I mean. Hodding Carter. But do you agree with this assessment that there is movement moving steadily to undo legislation. Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). Oh I do. And I see them moving towards even trying only fund natural family planning. There are many people who say that that they want to move eventually to that level which is really doing away with all family planning. It s way beyond Roe. It s way beyond Roe.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
15.41 Hodding Carter. But the status right now we are seeing still is a current running against Roe. Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). Yes, except in the elections. I think it s very important to point out that in the elections when they select the New England towns that the pro-life groups thought would clearly be for undoing Roe v. Wade, they voted the other way. 16.01 Hodding Carter. Is the message? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). If I could comment on that. First of all, there were locally organized attempts to try and make a statement. In some referendums, including the one in Colorado last year, the people voted in a binding referendum to deny funds for abortion in Colorado, the Congresswoman s own state. And so when it really matters rather than in a non-binding sense of the area resolution, the people have really come down on the pro- Let me also say that Newsweek last year, ran a cover story - this year, in January - in which according to their poll by a margin of 58% that people were in favor of banning abortion except in cases of life and mother, rape, and incest.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
16.39 Hodding Carter. Let me not worry about the majority of American people. Let s talk about the majority up here on the Hill. What s the next step right here? Attaching it to continuing resolution? What are we going to do? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). It s likely that that will be the route. It s the obvious route. That such amendments such as the Camp Amendment, Hatch Amendment since the Health and Human Services Appropriations bill has already passed both houses. That is no longer an available vehicle. It s very likely that s where it will be done. Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). And can I respond, because that may be where we re going on the Hill because people are very afraid of single issue groups, out in the electorate. But election after election, we have found even on the most extreme premise, Roe v Wade, not Family planning not the other issues, people have not supported repeal of that in conservative areas. He mentions my state. That resolution was written in a very, very unclear manner and afterwards 50% of the people found out they had voted the other way. I mean how very confusing. And I also think it s important to remind people that in America we don t have rights, Constitutional rights undone by the majority. Even if the election where going the other way, does that give people the right to dictate that no woman should ever have that right? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). I think that what she is trying to say is precisely my point. The abolitionist certainly we not the majority. But they were right. We feel and the growing number of American people feel that the rights of the unborn is a basic fundamental human right and to deny that through soft poisoning and I think what more people need to do. Hodding Carter. I m going to have to let each person get a word in. Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). And I just want to say very clearly of course, I don t think any woman is advocating abortion. I think they are advocating family planning and the right to choice and the right to having their health considered too. Its two lives we re considering a woman and a child. That s a medical and private consideration under the constitution.
Capitol Journal - Abortion
18.28 Hodding Carter. Now let me ask one final question and that s it. We have, what I think, is quite a lot of confusion in the public, we have what both of you agree is a running change on the hill. And yet, Senator Weicker earlier in the program suggests that what you have and the largest issue of all, is what he called a Mexican standoff, in which there is not really yet a clear indication politically that you are not going to be able to undo the full thrust of it. Is that true or not true? Chris Smith (R - New Jersey). I would suggest that it is not true, that there is a chipping away. That the bottom line is the people know about abortion, the more they know realize what the procedures do to the child, the violence that is perpetrated upon the child, the more they will repel from it. People are basically good. I don t think that they can look at the remains of an aborted child and say this is some progressive step. Patricia Schroeder (D - Colorado). There also basically good and understand too that family planning is a way to prevent that whole horrible thing from happening to the mother or the child. And they also realize that family planning is here to stay - which a lot of the radical right to life says they want to get next. They do not approve of using those tactics to kill family planning programs and feel that this is part of a whole. Hodding Carter. I am very sorry to both of you but I am going to have to thank you, both Representative Schroeder, Representative Smith. Thank you for your time with us on Capitol Hill.
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Grade School Classroom: MS classroom at teacher asks boy to the front to show the knuckle trick to remembering How Many Days Per Month. CUs of a boy's knuckles as he taps out a method of remembering the days per month. MS/GV teacher at the front of the class talking to her students.
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
00.00.00 Boston University holds outside service at Marsh Chapel for Martin Luther King who graduated from B.U. Theology school. Huge crowds outside. Back shots from podium of crowds. Boston University official quotes Martin Luther King. In 1955 one year after he received the PHD degree from Boston University, listen to his words, First it must be emphasized that non violent resistance is not a method for cowards. It does resist. If one uses this method because he is afraid, or merely because he lacks the instruments of violence, he is not truly non-violent. This is why Gandhi often said that if cowardess is the only alternative to violence, it is better to fight. He made this statement conscious of the fact that there is always another alternative. No individual or group need submit to any wrong nor need they use violence to rite the wrong - there is the way of non-violent resistance. This is ultimately the way of the strong man. It is not a method of stagnant passivity. The phrase passive resistance often gives the false impression that this is a sort of do nothing method, in which the resister quietly and passively accepts evil. But nothing is further from the truth. For while the non-violent resister is passive in the sense he is not physically aggressive towards his opponent, his mind and emotions are always active; constantly seeking to persuade his opponent that he is wrong.
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
04.43 Boston University official quotes Martin Luther King. A second basic fact that characterizes non-violence is it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent but to win his friendship and understanding. The non-violent resister must often express his protest through non-cooperation or boycotts. But he realizes these are not ends themselves. They are merely means to awaken a sense of moral shame in the opponent. The end is redemption and reconciliation. The aftermath of nonviolence is the creation of the beloved community. While the aftermath of violence is tragic bitterness.
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
02.30 Boston University official quotes Martin Luther King. A third characteristic of this method is that the attack is directed against the forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the non violent resister seeks to defeat not the persons victimized by evil. If he is opposing racial injustice, the non-violent resister has the vision to see that the basic tension is not between races. As I like to say to the people in Montgomery, the tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is at bottom between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness. And if there is a victory, it will be a victory not merely for 50,000 Negroes but a victory for justice and the forces of light. We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust.
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
03.39 Boston University official quotes Martin Luther King. A fourth point that characterizes non violent resistance is a willingness to accept suffering without retaliation; to accept blows from the opponent without striking back. Rivers of blood might have to flow before we gain our freedom but it must be our blood. Gandhi said to his countrymen the non violent resister is willing to accept violence if necessary but never to inflict it. He does not seek to dodge jail, if going to jail is necessary then he enters it as a bride-groom enters the bride s chamber. But he also refuses to hate him. At the center of non violence stands the principal of love. The non violent resister would contend that in the struggle for human dignity the oppressed people of the world must succumb to the temptation of becoming bitter or indulging in hate campaigns. To retaliate in kind would do nothing but intensify the existence of hate in the universe. Along the way of life someone must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate. This can only be done by projecting the ethic of love to the center of our lives. Such agape is disinterested love. It is a love in which the individual seeks not his own good but the good of his neighbor. Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. It is an entirely neighbor regarding concern for others which discovers the neighbor in every man it meets. Therefore agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy. It is directed towards both. If one loves an individual merely on account of his friendliness, he loves him for the sake of the benefits to be gained from the friendship rather than for the friends own sake. Consequently a way to insure love is disinterested is to have love for the enemy neighbor from whom you can expect no good in return but only hostility and persecution.
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
06.13 Agape is not a weak passive love. It is a love in action. Agape is a love seeking to persevere and create community. It is insistent on community even when one seeks to break it. Agape is willingness to sacrifice in the interest of mutuality. Agape is a willingness to go to any length to restore community. It doesn t stop at the first mile, but it goes the second mile to restore community. It is a willingness to forgive not seven times but seventy times seven to restore community. The cross is the eternal expression of the length to which God will go in order to restore broken community. The resurrection is a symbol of God s triumph over all the forces that seek to block community. The Holy Spirit is the continuing community creating reality that moves through history. He who works against community is working against the hole of creation.
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
07.21 Boston University official speaks and prays. And I recall the poet who said to morn not the day rather morn the apathetic throng, the coward and weak, who sees the world s great anguish and it s wrong and dare not speak. Lamentations let us test and exam our ways and return to the Lord. Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in Heaven and our voices. Let us pray. Oh God most holy, who does hold the nations in the hallow of thy hand and thus presides over the destinies of thy people, look with mercy upon thy people in our tears. Our hearts ache with an unspeakable pain. Our spirits cry out within us. Oh God of compassion draw near and comfort us. We confess we who are black and we who are white together we confess that we are all implicated in this deed. For by our words and deeds we have added to the strife of our people and by our silence and fears we have let wickedness go unchallenged. Forgive, oh God, forgive. We pray now for Mrs. King and the children who are lonely but not forsaken because thou does comfort and sustain them
Boston University gives tribute to Martin Luther King
09.26 Boston University officials walk through the crowds of students. People mumbling as they chat and disperse.
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Occupations: MS of female librarian sitting at the circulation desk, checking out book for young girl. CU library due date being stamped into book. MS as librarian hands book back to girl. MS of a secretary at a doctor's office, a boy comes in running in with an appointment card in hand. CU of appointment card showing the scheduled time & date. MS secretary at a doctor's office picking up phone receiver.
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Small Town Business District: MCU poster on brick building advertising "Circus Coming - May7th". Nice GV of small town main street as young boy dressed in trench coat & hat stands looking at circus poster hung on store facade, he runs eagerly toward the camera with a big smile on his face.
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GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
"GREAT UPSET OF '48" - PT2: A look at the 1948 Presidential campaign of Harry S. Truman. A preponderance of this documentary is comprised of archival B&W footage, with color contemporary interviews intermixed and duly noted as such.
GREAT UPSET OF '48 - PT2
COLOR: GV/MS historian ROBERT DONOVAN talks about the crisis of 12,000,000 returning soldiers and military personnel in terms of jobs and housing.