John Turturro, Rob Morrow, Ralph Fiennes, Paul Scofield, David Paymer, Hank Azaria, Christopher McDonald, Johann Carlo, Elizabeth Wilson, Mira Sovino, Griffin Dunne, Martin Scorsese, Barry Levinson. Television broadcasting began in London in 1936. In the U.S. it began in 1941. Nationwide broadcasts gained popularity in the early 1950's. The committees hold hearings on important topics and report their findings to the Congress.
Some committee hearings become public spectacles.
In 1957 the U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1 becoming the first nation to send a satellite into orbit around the earth. The United States had been working towards space exploration before this time, but was shocked by the sudden ascendancy of Russian technology in this area. See The Right Stuff .