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Harry & Walter: Missouri's Native Sons is a live, multimedia tribute to two of America's most influential men of the last century. Legendary CBS reporter and anchor Walter Cronkite, played fittingly by Kansas City actor Jim Korinke, hosts former President Harry Truman, played by fellow KC actor Ken Remmert. Together, they examine the major events of Truman's presidency that shaped the nation.
This show was originally produced as a compliment to the Walter Cronkite Memorial at Missouri Western State University, in Cronkite's home town of Saint Joseph, Missouri.
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Title News of the day. Convention Highlights. MS. Placards being carried with pictures of Senator Stuart Symington and saying Symington for President. MS. Sen Symington waving to crowd. LS. Brass band and crowd holding placards saying Johnson for President. CU. Sen Lyndon Johnson waving crowd. MS. Crowd holding placards in favour of Adlai Stevenson for President. MS. Adlai Stevenson with garland round his neck laughing and waving to crowd. MS. Line of pretty girls dancing round in Conga style carrying pictures of Sen. John F Kennedy. LS. MS. Sen John Kennedy and his wife making their way through crowds of people. GV. Dinner in progress. MS. Sen Symington and Kennedy seated together. MS. Sen Lyndon Johnson seated next to American film star, Judy Garland. LS. Adlai Stevenson standing on platform being applauded, next to him Judy Garland. LS. GV. Los Angeles Memorial sports Arena. MS. Int: camera being made ready on their stands etc. MS. CUs. Sen Frank Church speaks on the good the Democratic Party can do for America should it be elected.
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Kansas City, Missouri | Wikipedia audio article
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00:02:03 1 History
00:02:37 1.1 Exploration and settlement
00:05:55 1.2 American Civil War
00:07:32 1.3 Post-Civil War
00:09:10 1.4 Pendergast era
00:10:17 1.5 Post–World War II
00:12:31 1.6 21st century
00:12:40 1.6.1 Downtown Kansas City development
00:15:35 1.6.2 Transportation developments
00:17:46 2 Geography
00:18:55 2.1 Cityscape
00:19:13 2.1.1 Architecture
00:20:55 2.1.2 City Market
00:21:35 2.1.3 Downtown
00:23:34 2.2 Climate
00:26:46 3 Demographics
00:29:02 4 Economy
00:32:53 4.1 Headquarters
00:33:06 4.2 Top employers
00:33:23 5 Culture
00:33:32 5.1 Abbreviations and nicknames
00:34:35 5.2 Performing arts
00:36:41 5.3 Jazz
00:38:37 5.4 Irish culture
00:39:21 5.5 Casinos
00:40:17 5.6 Cuisine
00:43:10 5.7 Points of interest
00:43:22 5.8 Religion
00:44:10 5.9 Walt Disney in Kansas City
00:44:56 6 Sports
00:45:25 6.1 Professional football
00:46:00 6.2 Professional baseball
00:47:07 6.3 Professional soccer
00:47:50 6.4 College athletics
00:48:38 6.5 Professional rugby
00:49:04 6.6 Former teams
00:50:54 7 Parks and boulevards
00:53:17 8 Law and government
00:53:26 8.1 City government
00:55:01 8.2 National political conventions
00:55:36 8.3 Federal representation
00:56:19 8.4 Crime
00:58:35 9 Education
00:58:44 9.1 Colleges and universities
01:00:22 9.2 Primary and secondary schools
01:01:29 9.3 Libraries and archives
01:02:46 10 Media
01:02:54 10.1 Print media
01:03:59 10.2 Broadcast media
01:06:54 10.3 Film community
01:08:49 11 Infrastructure
01:09:25 11.1 Highways
01:10:22 11.2 Airports
01:11:02 11.3 Public transportation
01:11:34 11.3.1 KCATA- RideKC
01:12:07 11.3.1.1 RideKC Bus and MAX
01:13:06 11.3.1.2 RideKC Streetcar
01:14:07 11.3.1.3 RideKC Bridj
01:15:02 11.4 Walkability
01:15:53 11.5 Modal characteristics
01:16:51 12 Sister cities
01:17:03 13 Notable people
01:17:12 14 See also
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Kansas City is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri, bordering Johnson County and Wyandotte County in Kansas. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city had an estimated population of 488,943 in 2017, making it the 37th most-populous city in the United States and the most populated city of the Kansas City metropolitan area. It also has the fifth highest murder rate out of every city in the United States. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a Missouri River port east of its confluence with the Kansas River. It was named after the Kansa or Kaw people who had their significant populations in what is now the state of Kansas. On June 1, 1850, the town of Kansas was incorporated; shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after.
Sitting on Missouri's western boundary, with Downtown near the confluence of the Kansas and Missouri Rivers, the historic city encompasses some 319.03 square miles (826.3 km2), making it the 23rd largest city by total area in the United States. Most of the city lies within Jackson County, but portions spill into Clay, Cass, and Platte counties. Along with Independence, one of its major suburbs, it serves as one of the two county seats of Jackson County. Other cities with a population of over 50,000 in the Kansas City metropolitan area include the Kansas cities of Overland Park, Kansas City, Olathe, Shawnee, Lenexa and the Missouri cities of Lee's Summit and Blue Springs.
The city is composed of several neighborhoods, including the River Market District in the north, the 18th and Vine District in the east, and the Country Club Plaza in the south. Kansas City is known for its long tradition of jazz music and culture, for its cuisine (including its distinctive style of barbecue), and its craft breweries.
Charles Lindbergh | Wikipedia audio article
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Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974), nicknamed Lucky Lindy, The Lone Eagle, and Slim, was an American aviator, military officer, author, inventor, explorer, and environmental activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize: making a nonstop flight from Roosevelt Field, Long Island, New York, to Paris, France. Lindbergh covered the 33 1⁄2-hour, 3,600-statute-mile (5,800 km) flight alone in a single-engine purpose-built Ryan monoplane, the Spirit of St. Louis. This was not the first flight between North America and Europe, but he did achieve the first solo transatlantic flight and the first non-stop flight between North America and the European mainland. Lindbergh was an officer in the U.S. Army Air Corps Reserve, and he received the United States' highest military decoration, the Medal of Honor, for the feat.Lindbergh's achievement spurred interest in both commercial aviation and air mail, and he devoted much time and effort to promoting such activity. But his historic flight and celebrity status also led to tragedy. In March 1932, his infant son, Charles Jr., was kidnapped and murdered in what American media called the Crime of the Century and was described by H. L. Mencken as the biggest story since the Resurrection. The case prompted the United States Congress to establish kidnapping as a federal crime once the kidnapper had crossed state lines with their victim. By late 1935, the hysteria surrounding the case had driven the Lindbergh family into voluntary exile in Europe, from which they returned in 1939.
Before the United States formally entered World War II, some people accused Lindbergh of being a fascist sympathizer. An advocate of non-interventionism he supported the antiwar America First Committee, which opposed American aid to Britain in its war against Germany, and resigned his commission in the United States Army Air Forces in 1941 after President Franklin Roosevelt publicly rebuked him for his views. Nevertheless, he publicly supported the U.S. war effort after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and flew fifty combat missions in the Pacific Theater of World War II as a civilian consultant, though Roosevelt refused to reinstate his Air Corps colonel's commission.
In his later years, Lindbergh became a prolific prize-winning author, international explorer, inventor, and environmentalist.
Lindbergh and his wife, the former Anne Morrow, were the parents of six children. He fathered seven more children as a result of several covert adulterous affairs with three German women (two from Bavaria, one from East Prussia) beginning in 1957 when he was 55 years old. In 2003, (twenty-nine years after Lindbergh's death and two years after his wife died) one of those children, Astrid Hesshaimer, revealed the story of Lindbergh's affairs to the world.
Dorothy McKibbin | Wikipedia audio article
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Dorothy McKibbin (December 12, 1897 – December 17, 1985) worked on the Manhattan Project during World War II. She ran the project's office at 109 East Palace in Santa Fe, through which staff moving to the Los Alamos Laboratory passed. She was known as the first lady of Los Alamos, and was often the first point of contact for new arrivals. She retired when the Santa Fe office closed in 1963.
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He was born to Mayme Edna and Morgan Freeman Sr. as one of their five children. His mother was a teacher and father, a barber. He was sent to live with his grandmother as an
infant; he started living with his parents some years later.He loved movies and acting from a young age. Often he would save money to see movies and idolized actors like Gary Cooper
and Sidney Poitier. He also used to act in drama in school.He attended Broad Street High School in Mississippi and won a state wide drama competition when he was 12. He graduated
from high school in 1955.He received a partial drama scholarship from Jackson State University but he turned it down.He joined the U.S. Air Force, hoping to be a fighter pilot. He
was, however, relegated as a mechanic and radar technician. He quit his military career in 1959 on realizing that this was not what he wanted to do.He moved to Los Angeles and took
acting and dancing classes during the early 1960s. During the mid 1960s he joined the Opera Ring musical theater group and acted with a touring company version of ‘The Royal Hunt of
the Sun’.He made his off-Broadway debut in 1967 in the play ‘The Nigger Lovers’ which also starred Viveca Lindfors. This led to his Broadway debut in 1968 in an all-black version of
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Mike Shanin interviews Dr. Robert Vartabedian, President of Missouri Western State University, about the play he wrote called Harry and Walter: Missouri's Native Sons about Harry S Truman and Walter Cronkite. Steve Rose, Lisa Johnston, Mike Sanders and Ron Freeman discuss options for closing the KS budget gap, the financial struggles of the Jazz District and this week's presidential primaries.
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Lyndon B. Johnson | Wikipedia audio article
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to by his initials LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th President of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th Vice President of the United States from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions.Born in a farmhouse in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson was a high school teacher and worked as a congressional aide before winning election to the House of Representatives in 1937. He won election to the Senate in 1948 and was appointed to the position of Senate Majority Whip in 1951. He became the Senate Minority Leader in 1953 and the Senate Majority Leader in 1955. He became known for his domineering personality and the Johnson treatment, his aggressive coercion of powerful politicians to advance legislation.
Johnson ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1960 presidential election. Although unsuccessful, he accepted the invitation of then-Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts to be his running mate. They went on to win a close election over the Republican ticket of Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson succeeded him as president. The following year, Johnson won a landslide in 1964, defeating Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. With 61.1% of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election.
In domestic policy, Johnson designed the Great Society legislation to expand civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education, the arts, urban and rural development, public services and his War on Poverty. Assisted in part by a growing economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration. Civil-rights bills that he signed into law banned racial discrimination in public facilities, interstate commerce, the workplace and housing; the Voting Rights Act prohibited certain requirements in southern states used to disenfranchise African Americans. With the passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, the country's immigration system was reformed, encouraging greater emigration from regions other than Europe. Johnson's presidency marked the peak of modern liberalism after the New Deal era.
In foreign policy, Johnson escalated American involvement in the Vietnam War. In 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, which granted Johnson the power to use military force in Southeast Asia without having to ask for an official declaration of war. The number of American military personnel in Vietnam increased dramatically, from 16,000 advisors in non-combat roles in 1963 to 525,000 in 1967, many in combat roles. American casualties soared and the peace process stagnated. Growing unease with the war stimulated a large, angry anti-war movement based chiefly among draft-age students on university campuses.
Johnson faced further troubles when summer riots began in major cities in 1965 and crime rates soared, as his opponents raised demands for law and order policies. While Johnson began his presidency with widespread approval, support for him declined as the public became frustrated with both the war and the growing violence at home. In 1968, the Democratic Party factionalized as anti-war elements denounced Johnson; he ended his bid for renomination after a disappointing finish in the New Hampshire primary. Nixon was elected to succeed him, as the New Deal coalition that had dominated presidential politics for 36 years collapsed. After he left office in January 1969, Johnson ret ...
Lyndon Johnson | Wikipedia audio article
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00:05:27 1 Early years
00:09:45 2 Entry into politics
00:12:40 3 Career in U.S. House of Representatives (1937–1949)
00:14:30 3.1 Active military duty (1941–1942)
00:20:26 4 Career in U.S. Senate (1949–1961)
00:20:34 4.1 Contested 1948 election
00:23:31 4.2 Freshman senator to majority whip
00:25:20 4.3 Senate Democratic leader
00:29:31 5 Campaigns of 1960
00:30:24 5.1 Candidacy for president
00:31:59 5.2 Vice-presidential nomination
00:36:48 5.3 Re-election to U.S. Senate
00:38:26 6 Vice presidency (1961–1963)
00:44:10 7 Presidency (1963–1969)
00:44:45 7.1 Succession
00:48:33 7.2 Legislative initiatives
00:49:48 7.3 Civil Rights Act
00:54:25 7.4 The Great Society
00:55:21 7.5 1964 presidential election
01:01:19 7.6 Voting Rights Act
01:06:37 7.7 Immigration
01:07:26 7.8 Federal funding for education
01:11:03 7.9 War on Poverty and healthcare reform
01:14:21 7.10 Transportation
01:15:09 7.11 Gun control
01:15:45 7.12 Space program
01:17:17 7.13 Urban riots
01:19:55 7.14 Backlash against Johnson (1966–1967)
01:22:46 7.15 Vietnam War
01:24:04 7.15.1 1964
01:27:59 7.15.2 1965
01:31:52 7.15.3 1966
01:36:31 7.15.4 1967
01:42:43 7.15.5 1968
01:47:32 7.16 The Six-Day War and Israel
01:49:26 7.17 Surveillance of Martin Luther King
01:50:18 7.18 International trips
01:51:45 7.19 1968 presidential election
01:56:50 7.20 Judicial appointments
01:58:26 8 Post-presidency (1969–1973)
02:01:37 8.1 Heart issues
02:03:32 9 Death and funeral
02:07:56 10 Personality and public image
02:12:12 11 Legacy
02:13:56 11.1 Major legislation signed
02:16:17 11.2 Significant regulatory changes
02:16:35 12 See also
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
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Lyndon Baines Johnson (; August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973), often referred to as LBJ, was an American politician who served as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969. Formerly the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963, he assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. A Democrat from Texas, Johnson also served as a United States Representative and as the Majority Leader in the United States Senate. Johnson is one of only four people who have served in all four federal elected positions.Born in a farmhouse in Stonewall, Texas, Johnson was a high school teacher and worked as a congressional aide before winning election to the US House of Representatives in 1937. He won a contested election to the US Senate in 1948 and was appointed to the position of Senate Majority Whip in 1951. He became the Senate Minority Leader in 1953 and the Senate Majority Leader in 1955. He became known for his domineering personality and the Johnson treatment, his aggressive coercion of powerful politicians to advance legislation.
Johnson ran for the Democratic nomination in the 1960 presidential election. Although unsuccessful, he accepted the invitation of then-Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts to be his running mate. They went on to win a close election over the Republican ticket of Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. On November 22, 1963, Kennedy was assassinated and Johnson succeeded him as president. The following year, Johnson won in a landslide, defeating Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona. With 61.1 percent of the popular vote, Johnson won the largest share of the popular vote of any candidate since the largely uncontested 1820 election.
In domestic policy, Johnson designed the Great Society legislation to expand civil rights, public broadcasting, Medicare, Medicaid, aid to education, the arts, urban and rural development, public services and his War on Poverty. Assisted in part by a growing economy, the War on Poverty helped millions of Americans rise above the poverty line during his administration. Civil rights bi ...