Kansas City Public Library

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These videos are produced by The Kansas City Public Library.

# Episodes
57 episodes
Rating
TV-UN

Episodes of Kansas City Public Library

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  Terence O’Malley - Black Hand Strawman: The Hist...
  
  Author and filmmaker Terence O’Malley presents a veritable “Hood’s Who” of Kansas City’s Black Hand/Mafia/Cosa Nostra, an inglorious yet persistently fascinating element of Kansas City’s organized crime history.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 25, 2012
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    01:15:30
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  Jeff Lanza - Federal Cases: Inside the Kansas Ci...
  
  The retired Special Agent tells the real stories behind the headlines of some of the highest profile FBI cases investigated in Kansas City.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 23, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    56:35
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  Wendell Potter: Deadly Spin
  
  Former VP of CIGNA Wendell Potter explains how insurance companies make promises they have no intention of keeping, flout regulations designed to protect consumers, and skew political debate with multibillion-dollar PR campaigns.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 19, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    01:04:39
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  Unveiling a Governor: A Conversation with Former...
  
  Library Director Crosby Kemper III interviews former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, exploring his political career and his views on civic leadership. Holden’s official portrait will be on display during the program, and artist Carla Malone Steck will offer remarks.
  - Release date
    
    Jan 13, 2012
  - Runtime
    
    56:14
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  Meet the Past: Edgar Snow
  
  Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III returns for a conversation with Edgar Snow, as portrayed by local actor Bob Brand. Snow, born in Kansas City in 1905, was a journalist best known for his writings about China in the 1930s.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 22, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    01:19:45
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  Theodore Wilson: Pearl Harbor and the Heartland,...
  
  University of Kansas history professor Theodore Wilson commemorates the 70th anniversary of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor with a discussion of the immediate and lasting effects the attack had on the nation and the Midwest.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 19, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    46:59
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  A Conversation with Clara Reyes
  
  To close out Global Entrepreneurship Week, Clara Reyes discusses how her newspaper, Dos Mundos, has grown to become an innovative, beneficial source of information and education for the Hispanic community.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 19, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    39:51
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  Stephen Breyer - Making Our Democracy Work: A Ju...
  
  United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the role of the courts in our democracy and advocates a pragmatic approach to the law that applies unchanging constitutional values to ever-changing circumstances.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 14, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    01:08:17
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  A Conversation with Ollie Gates
  
  Ollie Gates discusses how his family restaurant, Gates Bar-B-Q, has served as a tasty calling card for Kansas City on the national food scene since its inception in 1946.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 14, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    48:43
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  William C. Harris: Lincoln and the Border States
  
  Award-winning historian William C. Harris argues that Confederate campaigns and guerrilla activities kept the region in constant turmoil, and that those states preoccupied Lincoln throughout the war.
  - Release date
    
    Dec 14, 2011
  - Runtime
    
    48:36