The Reagan family and selected guests attend the interment service at Pres. Reagan's gravesite at his presidential library in Simi Valley, CA.

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On March 30th 1981, President Ronald Reagan, code-named ”Rawhide" had just delivered a lunch-time speech at the Washington Hilton Hotel. While exiting the hotel, the President was fired upon by John Hinckley, Jr. and suffered a gunshot wound.
 
Tonight, the Newseum marked the event by bringing together two of the men involved in saving President Reagan's life, Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr and George Washington University Hospital surgeon Dr. Joseph Giordano.

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan.

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Tom Brokaw of NBC, Former California Governor and U.S. Senator Pete Wilson, and authors Richard Reeves, Lou Cannon and Doug Brinkley debate the legacy of Ronald Reagan at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, California.  This year marks the 100^th Anniversary of Reagan’s birth.

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Ronald Reagan was born in 1911, and the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery is marking the 40th president’s centennial by featuring his life and presidency in their “One Life” room. We visited the National Portrait Gallery and toured the Ronald Reagan “One Life” exhibit with curator Sidney Hart.

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This June marks the 50th Anniversary of two of President John F. Kennedy’s most memorable speeches. On June 10th 1963, JFK delivered the commencement address at American University known as his “Peace Speech.” He called for high-level negotiations with the Soviet Union, a nuclear test ban treaty and an end to the Cold War.  On June 26th 1963, President Kennedy took a harder line in West Berlin, famously stating that as a free man he took pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner.” This is a discussion from the Kennedy Presidential Library about the significance and lasting influence of these two addresses.

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The Battle of Gettysburg took place July 1-3, 1863, in Pennsylvania, as Union forces turned back an invasion of the North by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee. The Union victory inspired President Abraham Lincoln to call for “a new birth of freedom” in his address a few months later dedicating the Soldiers’ National Cemetery at Gettysburg. C-SPAN's American History TV was LIVE on June 30 from Gettysburg National Military Park covering events commemorating the 150th anniversary of the battle, including remarks by scholars such as Harold Holzer, Allen Guelzo, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, as well as your calls and tweets for Civil War Institute Director Peter Carmichael and novelist Jeff Shaara.

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American History TV joined historian Carol Reardon and Col. Tom Vossler to learn the story of the three-day Battle of Gettysburg through a selection of their favorite monuments.

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Virginia Commonwealth University professor Deirdre Condit teaches a class on the history of reproductive law in the U.S. Professor Condit touches on the 1965 U.S. Supreme Court case Griswold v. Connecticut, about the prohibited use of contraceptives and the right to marital privacy. The class also examines rights and access to abortion, looking at the 1962 story of actress Sherri Finkbine, who had taken medication she later discovered causes birth defects, prompting her to fly to Sweden for an abortion. Also discussed is the historic 1973 Roe v. Wade abortion case.

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