Frank Stanton

[gentle music] CBS Studios, Chicago.

CBS President Frank Stanton is down in a low-ceilinged garage by the loading dock, surrounded by reporters and other TV execs.

Everyone is waiting because presidential nominees Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon are on their way to the studio.

They're going to debate live on TV for the first time in American history.

David Greenberg, professor of history, journalism, and media studies at Rutgers University.

It's cutting into movie-going because now television is the main form of entertainment.

But some people think TV could be more than entertainment, people like CBS President Frank Stanton.

Stanton joined CBS when he was in his early 20s.

And so I still have mixed feelings about the fact that we're now working directly together on the same kind of work that I studied back in grad school.

But more specifically— Erica is the Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment at Harvard Kennedy School, is also affiliated with Harvard College.

They study political violence and its alternatives.

They have authored or edited nine books and dozens of articles on mass movements, nonviolent resistance, terrorism, political violence, revolution, state repression, including civil resistance, what everyone needs to know, and on revolutions.