The Great Dissent

Thomas Healy, former Supreme Court correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, talked about his book, The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes read more

Thomas Healy, former Supreme Court correspondent for The Baltimore Sun, talked about his book, The Great Dissent: How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind - and Changed the History of Free Speech in America, in which he examines the limited interpretation of the First Amendment during the beginning of the 20th century, and its transformation due to Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes' opinion in the 1919 case, Abrams v. United States. The author reported that First Amendment rights were often stifled prior to Holmes' opinion, and the Justice himself was once a skeptic of the right to speak freely. Thomas Healy spoke with Wendell Pritchett, chancellor of Rutgers University-Camden, at the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. close

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The Great Dissent

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Location:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
First Aired:
Oct 26, 2013 | 7:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
Last Aired:
Dec 31, 2013 | 3:48am EST | C-SPAN 2

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  • Oct 26, 2013 | 7:00pm EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Oct 27, 2013 | 9:59am EDT | C-SPAN 2
  • Nov 10, 2013 | 5:03am EST | C-SPAN 2
  • Dec 30, 2013 | 9:28pm EST | C-SPAN 2
  • Dec 31, 2013 | 12:38am EST | C-SPAN 2
  • Dec 31, 2013 | 3:48am EST | C-SPAN 2
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