Law and Politics Videos

What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.

Members of the Japanese delegation sign surrender documents aboard the U.

At the Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles - on the 15th of July, 1960 - John F.

John Adams, who was part of the Declaration-of-Independence-drafting committee, argued in favor of approving Lee's Resolution to sever the colonies' t...

If the President and the Constitution seem to differ, the Supreme Court decides who will prevail. On two separate days in 1841 - the 24th of February ...

Joseph Goebbels believed in propaganda and in stirring a crowd to the point of frenzy.

Presidential politics in America changed with the Nixon-Kennedy debates. TV debates are now a mainstay during national election cycles.

This is a continuation of the Kennedy-Nixon debate of September 26, 1960.

This debate is still studied as a turning point in American presidential politics.

This is the concluding scene of the September 26, 1960 debate between Richard M.

A grandson of Genghis, Kublai became the Great Khan in 1260.

In this clip from "The Last Day of World War One," we see a replica of the railway carriage in which the Armistice was signed on the 11th of November,...

On the evening of March 31, 1968, President Lyndon Johnson requested broadcast time. No one expected what he had to say.

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