Chief Justice Earl Warren and Bakersfield, California

Jeremy Adams and Ken Hooper talked about former Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren and the collection of archived materials related to his time as a student at what is now Bakersfield High School. The teacher also spoke about the landmark cases that faced the Warren Court and how his decisions impacted the country.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2013 LCV Cities Tour” in Bakersfield, California, from June 3-7 to feature the history and literary life of the community.*Working with the Bright House Networks local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close