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The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present

The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present

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Professor Heather Hendershot's opening plenary from the "Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice" conference, with initial remarks by Dean Agustín Rayo and Tracie Jones, Assistant Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Hendershot is Professor of Comparative Media Studies at MIT. She studies television news, conservative media, political movements, and American film and television history. Her 2022 book is "When the News Broke: Chicago 1968 and the Polarizing of America", available from the University of Chicago Press: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo183630531.html

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The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present

The Whole World Is Watching How 1968 Helps Us Frame The Present

Massachusetts Institute of Technology