HIGHLIGHTS
10:10 a.m.
(CSPAN2) ROBERT F. KENNEDY IN INDIANAPOLIS On April 4, 1968, Robert F. Kennedy announces to a waiting Indianapolis crowd that Martin Luther King, Jr. has been assassinated; historian Ray Boomhower recounts the events leading up to RFK’s speech and the impact it had on the city.
11:35 a.m.
(CSPAN2) JAMES SWANSON, MANHUNT APPLE TV+ SERIES “Manhunt” author James Swanson talks about the Apple TV+ series based on his account of the 12-day search in April 1865 for President Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth.
12 p.m.
(EWTN) PATH OF THE MESSIAH Continuing into the heart of the Holy Land; journeying to the Sea of Galilee, to the bustling marketplace of Jerusalem, the Garden of Gethsemane, and the Mount of Olives.
1:30 p.m.
(EWTN) EASTER VIGIL MASS FROM ROME Pope Francis presides over the Easter Vigil Mass from Vatican City.
2:05 p.m.
(CSPAN2) FOUR PRESIDENTS AND A CONSTITUTION Historian David Fisher discusses how four U.S. presidents who served between 1850-1865 viewed their obligation to the United States Constitution.
3:25 p.m.
(CSPAN2) 19TH CENTURY DINOSAUR FOSSIL HUNTING Natural History Museum paleontology curator Hans Sues discusses the Bone Wars, a rivalry between Gilded Age scientists Othniel Marsh and Edward Cope to find new dinosaur fossils; the Smithsonian Associates provide this event.
4 p.m.
(SMITH) PRINCESS DIANA’S WICKED STEPMOTHER The turbulent relationship between Princess Diana and her formidable stepmother Raine Spencer, from Diana’s traumatic childhood to the close and supportive bond they shared in later years.
4:15 p.m.
(EWTN) MATER REDEMPTORIS SHRINE The history of Cameroon’s Mater Redemptoris Shrine, a site that sees over ten thousand pilgrims on the third Friday of Lent each year.
4:30 p.m.
(EWTN) Built On Faith: the Church of the Holy Sepulchre A look inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, where Jesus Christ was crucified, buried and resurrected.
4:55 p.m.
(CSPAN2) JEFFREY ROSEN, THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS National Constitution Center President and CEO Jeffrey Rosen talks with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of The Atlantic, about how the Founding Fathers thought about virtue and were influenced by classical writers.
5 p.m.
(SMITH) DIANA AND THE PAPARAZZI The most photographed woman in world from 1985 to 1997 suffered from hounding from paparazzi but also promoted the charitable and humanitarian causes she cared so passionately about.