Texas Governor Rick Perry provides his reaction to the filibuster of Senator Wendy Davis from June 25, 2013, where she prevented a vote from being taken on Senate Bill 5, which would restrict abortion access in the state. Continue reading
On May 29, 2011, Senator Wendy Davis of District 10 in Texas held a filibuster that forced Governor Rick Perry to need to call a special session to continue the debate of a budget bill that cut $4 billion from public education in the state. Continue reading
This video from the Texas Tribute shows clips from Senator Wendy Davis’s eleven-hour filibuster on June 25, 2013 to prevent a vote from being taken on Senate Bill 5, which would significantly restrict the abortion laws of the state. Continue reading
Alice Herz-Sommer discusses the impact of music on her life and how it helped sustain her through the Holocaust. Continue reading
Weather Underground co-founder Mark Rudd discusses the regret he still feels and recalls spending many years on the run after being indicted. Continue reading
Fifty years after the construction of the Berlin Wall began on August 13, 1961, people recall what life was like with the wall dividing Berlin, Germany in half. Continue reading
Director Arthur Penn talks about his experience as a student and later as a director during the Un-American Activities Committee's reign in the McCarthy Era. Continue reading
Watch footage of thousands of women marching in the 1913 Suffragette Parade in D.C. Continue reading
FBI informant Larry Grathwohl discusses Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn's plan for America from the perspective of an undercover member of the Weather Underground organization. Continue reading
Weather Underground member Cathy Wilkerson describes being in a Greenwich Village home when a homemade bomb went off on March 6, 1970, killing three of her fellows. Continue reading
