C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles take American History TV on the road. Throughout the weekend of April 6-8 we feature the history of Mesa, Arizona.

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Edward Linenthal, Timothy Naftali, and Jeffrey Engel discuss how we remember historic events, our collective memory, and how John F. Kennedy’s legacy has altered since his death in November of 1963. This event was hosted by the Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas.

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Two Civil War sailors who went down with the USS Monitor ironclad off the coast of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina in 1862 are interred in a full military honors funeral at Arlington National Cemetery.

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John Dewey (1859-1952) was a leader in the Progressive Era reform movement in education, and his writings on education are still considered influential to this day. University of Tennessee at Chattanooga professor Wilfred McClay examines the life and writings of John Dewey, with a focus on Dewey’s work in education.

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Civil War scholars give a historical perspective on the physical and mental battlefield trauma suffered by soldiers in fighting the bloodiest war in American history. More than 625,000 Americans died in the Civil War, and some historians believe the death toll exceeded 700,000. This event was part of a conference at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania.

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Former United States Secret Service agent Clint Hill discusses his historical narrative titled “Mrs. Kennedy and Me.” Hill describes the period of time he was assigned to guard Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States. His protective detail assignment began shortly after Kennedy’s election as President in November 1960, until after the election of Lyndon Johnson in 1964. From those four years, he shares stories about the former first lady’s travels to Europe, Asia, and South America. He details the birth of her sons John and Patrick and Patrick’s sudden death. Hill tells about being in the motorcade in Dallas when the President was killed, and the effect that had on his own life for the next fifty years.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on April 4, 1968.  In this program, a friend of King’s, William Pepper, talks about his book, “An Act of State: The Execution of Martin Luther King.”  Mr. Pepper argues that James Earl Ray, the man convicted of the assassination, was framed - and that the conspirators have not been brought to justice.

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Author Denise Kiernan looks at the lives and the mysterious work of the women in one of three Manhattan Project secret cities – the town of Oak Ridge, Tennessee - that helped enrich uranium for the first atomic bomb during World War II. She explains that the city was quickly built from scratch in 1942 and drew many young women from around the country with the promise of well-paying jobs. Because the project was top-secret, no one knew what their work would produce until the first atomic bomb hit Hiroshima and ended the war. This event took place at the National Archives.

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Civil Rights activist Rosa Parks is remembered on the 100th anniversary of her birth. Her arrest in December 1955 for refusing to relinquish her bus seat to a white man led to the Montgomery Bus Boycott in Alabama -- which, in turn, led to the creation of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and the national emergence of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

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This year marks the 50th anniversary of several key events from the civil rights movement, including the Birmingham Campaign and the March on Washington. Lonnie Bunch, the director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, is joined by curator Elaine Nichols to introduce the museum’s Civil Rights Oral History Project, which was conducted in conjunction with the Library of Congress and the Southern Oral History Program at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. We’ll then see an oral history interview from that collection with Rev. Joseph Lowery who, along with Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and others, founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

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