she wrote a book about "the birds," the alfred hitchcock movie. and that is a movie that had a very notorious case of sexual harassment going on on the set, with alfred hitchcock torturing tippi hedren, because she would not go to bed with him. camille paglia, in her book, writes as if tippi hedren should have been an empowered woman and told alfred hitchcock no and stood up to the torture, and it was not that big of a deal, in a way that kind of downplays how traumatic that moviemaking experience was for tippi hedren. so i think that is a real -- camille paglia's inability to talk honestly about hitchcock's sexual harassment in her book on the movie where it happened is a sort of encapsulating example of what is naÏve about her pro-sex feminism. susan: the next one i wanted to focus on is al sharpton. if you look at the c-span library, there are literally hundreds of videos covering him over the course of his career. he is in front of cameras frequently, in the public sphere. the one we chose is quite recent, august 28, 2020. the national action

. >> legendary movie director alfred hitchcock's. only child. patricia has died. patricia hitchcock appeared in several of her father's films, including psycho and strangers on a train. the family once lived in the bay area they had a home in scotts valley. patricia hitchcock died in southern california. she has 3 children. she was 93 years old. still ahead, groundbreaking transportation plan in lake tahoe. how this first of its kind project could make life. >> construction is underway for the tahoe. region's first ever base to base gondola the project will soon link the squaw valley and alpine medals resorts this week. helicopters are bringing concrete to mountain areas where support structures will be anchored workers at both resorts hope that the gondola will reduce the number of people who have to drive from one base to the other. >> when it's completed. its going to be great. people aren't able to go from one mountain to the other in about 16 minutes. they want to get their cars. we can take some cars off the road in between the 2 resorts. >> and when it is c

the alfred hitchcock movie. that is a movie that had a notorious case of sexual harassment going on the set with alva hitchcock torturing the start because she would not go to bed with him. camille probably a in her book rights as if she should have been an empowered woman and told him no and stood up to the torture. it wasn't that big a deal. in a way that kind of downplays how traumatic that moviemaking experience was for her camille probably is inability to talk honestly about alfred hitchcock's sexual harassment in her book on the movie where it happened is an encapsulating example of what is naive about her sex feminism. host: i want to focus on al sharpton. if you look in our library, there are hundreds of videos of us covering him over the course of his career. he is in front of the cameras frequently. the one we chose is quite recent. national action network which is his organization what -- library . let's watch. >> they keep telling me about how it will change. that black parents have to have these con

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i remember talking t to one motr who told the ship taken her daughter to dartmouth hitchcock medical center for her health exam, and she talked to the doctor about the elevated levels of pfas in her blood and she said the doctor did know what i was talking about. because this is an emerging contaminant. but thanks to the work of so many of those affected, people like andrea nay in portsmouth who helped found a group called testing for pease and folks were involved with a citizen for clean water, they have raised awareness and work to find solutions to clean up our drinking water. we owe it to them, to all those families affected by pfas and contaminated water supplies, a serious commitment to stop this problem where it starts and to give them the peace of mind that they so deserve. the comprehensive measures to address our water infrastructure that are contained in this historic bill will help do just that. now, water infrastructure is a serious issue that new hampshire shares with many other states throughout the country. like water, another shared issue is access to broadband, i hi

ike and mccarthy by david nichols and the age of eisenhower by william hitchcock. those are just a few. we are also hearing there will be a few new ones coming out about ike's role with women's rights and moving women's rights forward. i'm looking forward to those as well. >> terrific. you started to touch on this, but folks are using the holdings. can you tell us a bit about the holdings and the research people are doing there? >> we have about 600 to 800 researchers a year from all over the world, and i personally have seen an increase in interest in women's roles and both military and the presidency. we have about 26 million papers from eisenhower's presidency and also his military career. it includes about 450 of his associates. and it's really important to remember that eisenhower was an analog president. we do have some of our holdings digitized and i'm looking forward to being able to digitize a lot more in the future. >> i'm quite confident we will get this question so i will get it out of the way. do you have a favorite object or document? >> i may have be

"ike and mccarthy" by david nickels and the "age of eisenhower" by william hitchcock. those are just a few. there's going to be a few new ones coming out about ike's role in women's rights and i'm looking forward to those as well. >> terrific. you started to touch on this, but folks are using the holdings, the research -- they might think, that was a while ago, everything's been researched. can you tell us a little bit about the holdings and folks who are coming to do research there? >> sure. so we have about 600 to 800 researchers a year from all over the world. and i have personally sort of seen an increase in interest in women's roles in both the military and the presidency. so we have about 26 million papers. they are from eisenhower's presidency and also his military career. it includes about 450 of his associates. it's really important to remember that eisenhower was an analog-born president. so we do have some of our holdings digitized, but we're looking forward to being able to digitize a lot more in the future. >> great, and i'm quite confident we'll get this

i remember talking to one mother who told me she had taken her daughter to dartmouth hitchcock medical center for her health exam. she talked to the doctor about the elevated levels of pfas in her blood, and she said the doctor didn't know what i was talking about because this is an emerging contaminant. but thanks to the work of so many of those affected, people like andrea miko in portsmouth who helped found a group called testing for pease, they have raised awareness and helped to find solutions to clean up our drinking water. we owe it to them, to all of those families affected by pfas and contaminated water supplies a serious commitment to stop this problem where it starts and to give them the peace of mind that they so deserve. the comprehensive measures to address our water infrastructure that are contained in this historic bill will help do just that. now water infrastructure is a serious issue that new hampshire shares with many other states throughout the country. like water, another shared issue is access to broadband, or high-speed internet service. the challenges of the co

one of those legendary, like you have to have been alfred hitchcock or something? [ laughter ] like to me that's what they kind of symbolize. even though, you know, my buddy anthony anderson got one like last year. [ laughter ] i should feel closer to it. >> sarah: does that take something special away? >> no, i should feel closer to it generationally, but i praise his career. he was deserving. and i'm like, that's very cool. but for me i'm like, i don't know. like, that's just crazy. like, i still consider myself just kenan from atlanta type thing. you know. when people were calling me, i had to double-check a million times. why aren't my representatives calling? [ laughter ] people that i pay to rep me? why aren't they calling me? you know, a lot of fact checking. but yeah, it's going down, it's going down. [ cheers and applause ] >> sarah: little kenan from atlanta. jenny from the block. >> you know what i mean? k.k. from the streets. >> sarah: we talked about "saturday night." you're also nominated for your brand-new sitcom "kenan." >> yes. [ cheers and applaus

i have an ancestor, named private hitchcock, and he wrote in his memoirs the day that the news arrived of washington's death he said my goodness, i am paraphrasing here. but shock role in, we all loved our beloved founder of this country. it brings tears to my eyes historians would do justice, one of a descent in 200 years later to be able to try to do that as a historian. well, thank you everyone for your rapt attention. it's wonderful to be. here [applause] >> next, on american history tv. historian h.w. brands talk about his biography of aaron burr. the new york politician and vice president who is most remembered for killing former president trudge -- alexander hamilton in a duel in 1804. mr. brands presented a collection of letters between burr, and his daughter the adagio. to account his political rise -- this was reported at the fair gallery of arts in washington d.c. in

. >> i think the golf club is a, as alfred hitchcock used to say, it's the mcguffin, okay? it's the magic device to tie it to steve democker, the golfer, the elitist. >> sure. >> the rich guy who is pissed off about -- >> fine. but isn't there scientific evidence to say that's a golf club head that hit it? >> no. i don't agree with any of that. and nobody, not a single person could say that that was a golf club. they all said it could have been a golf club. but they also said it could have been other weapon. >> the defense argued detectives should have looked into other suspects too. one person in particular. jim knapp. the man who rented carol's guest house and arrived at the scene almost immediately after deputies. >> why was he a potential suspect in your view? >> well, it's like the guy who lights the fire that comes back to watch it burn. and that was our feeling about mr. knapp. because it wasn't a little bit of evidence that we had on mr. knapp. it was a mountain of evidence on him. >> reporter: knapp, said the defense attorneys, was in serious financial trouble and

i remember talking to one mother who told me she had taken her daughter to dartmouth hitchcock medical center for her health exam. she talked to the doctor about the elevated levels of pfas in her blood, and she said the doctor didn't know what i was talking about because this is an emerging contaminant. but thanks to the work of so many of those affected, people like andrea miko in portsmouth who helped found a group called testing for pease, they have raised awareness and helped to find solutions to clean up our drinking water. we owe it to them, to all of those families affected by pfas and contaminated water supplies a serious commitment to stop this problem where it starts and to give them the peace of mind that they so deserve. the comprehensive measures to address our water infrastructure that are contained in this historic bill will help do just that. now water infrastructure is a serious issue that new hampshire shares with many other states throughout the country. like water, another shared issue is access to broadband, or high-speed internet service. the challenges of the co