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In 1964's The Best Man, presidential candidate and principled intellectual William Russell (Henry Fonda) competes with a TV-savvy opportunist at his (unspecified) party's convention.

What Do Contested Conventions Look Like? Ask Hollywood And Sinclair Lewis

Thanks to movies, novels and TV, Bob Mondello knows what a contested convention would be like: raucous crowd, oppressive din and (if movies are any guide) Angela Lansbury scheming in the corner.

Jets fly above Petco Park during the national anthem prior to the MLB baseball All-Star Game, July 12, 2016.

American League Wins All-Star Game At Petco Park

Before the first pitch, baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred joined Rod Carew and the family of late San Diego Padres great Tony Gwynn and named the batting titles after the two Hall of Famers.

Candice Caufield and Kevin Charles Paterson give the Best of Fringe award to Tymisha Harris and Michael Marinaccio for "Josephine," July 3, 2016.

San Diego International Fringe Wraps Up With Awards Show

'Josephine' takes Best of Fringe and Outstanding Solo Performer

(L-R) Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Obama held a press conference in Ottawa Wednesday.

Obama: Globalization Is 'Here' And 'Done'

Warning against withdrawing from trade deals, the president acknowledged a legitimate gripe with globalization, but says focusing only on local markets is the wrong medicine.

Great Britain has always been ambivalent about being tied to Europe. The U.K. joined the European Economic Community in 1973, and two years later, it held a referendum on whether it should leave. Here, members of the Labour Party hold a 1975 news conference to explain why they favor pulling out of the European body. However, U.K. citizens voted two-to-one to remain in the EEC at that time.

Great Britain's Long Retreat

Britain was an outward-looking nation that built the world's largest empire. But it's been turning inward and Thursday's vote on leaving the European Union could further shrink its international role.

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, center, flanked by Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck, left, and Los Angeles World Airports Chief of Police Patrick M. Gannon, right, march in the gay pride parade in West Hollywood, June 12, 2016.

Police: Man Armed With Guns, Explosives Arrested Before LA Pride Parade

An Indiana man armed with three assault rifles and chemicals used to make explosives was arrested in Santa Monica on Sunday and told police he was headed to a gay pride parade in West Hollywood.

A photo of the cast of children who performed "Brundibar" in the Terezín concentration camp.

Bodhi Tree Concert Presents 'Brundibar,' A Children's Opera With A Devastating History

Opera performed during Holocaust in Theresienstadt

A Lorentz teleprinter, used by the Nazis to transmit highly complex encrypted messages.

Museum Finds Piece Of WWII History For Sale On EBay

Museum volunteers were perusing eBay when they happened upon a Lorenz teleprinter used by the Nazis to transmit encrypted messages. It was labeled a telegram machine and sold for just $14.

Czech Republic's President Milos Zeman (left) decorates Nicholas Winton with the Czech Republic's highest decoration, The Order of the White Lion, in Prague, on Oct. 28, 2014. Winton, a British citizen who died last year at age 106, saved 669 mostly Jewish children from the Nazis by transporting them out of Prague to Great Britain in 1939.

'Britain's Schindler' Is Remembered By Those He Saved From The Nazis

Nicholas Winton arranged safe passage from Czechoslovakia for more than 600 Jewish children on the eve of World War II. Winton died last year at 106. A memorial is being held Thursday in London.

Samuel and wife Ada Willenberg sitting together at a memorial ceremony, 2012.

Treblinka's Last Witness

Airs Wednesday, May 11, 2016 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV

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