So they were around the culture at the turn of the century that was of those cities. Urban. And tulsa, unlike some of the other oil towns, is really influenced by the east and the midwest, and particularly the urban east and the urban midwest because of the culture that these oilmen brought. Most of them were selfmade, do not get me wrong. They did not come here with a Million Dollar bankroll. Some did. They brought with them the culture of music and theater and opera and architecture. Early prominent ones, the building directly behind us, the off colored Stone Building it is a Stone Building. It is a handsome building. The character of harry sinclair, as we know, part of the teapot dome scandal in 1922, when Warren Harding was present. Harry later after five years of prosecution served six months in a washington, d. C. Jail for corruption. But unusually from his jail cell, he still conducted business in tulsa. Earlier ones were joss galston known as the rubber band millionaire. He made and lost two fortunes between 1910 and 1929. Others included john paul getty, of getty oil fame. Once the richest man in the world. His dad had Oil Properties here. When he is a teenager, he came to work the fields in tulsa and stayed through the 1920s, and made his first millions here. Later buying william g skellys oil, another prominent tulsa family. W. G. Skelley was a great tulsa philanthropist. Ultimately john paul bought his complete. Others include wade phillips. Wade phillips to me and to many native tulsans is the father of modern tulsa. He and his brother started in the oil fields in bartlesville. They split up their properties. Freight stated and started phillips 66. Frank stayed and started phillips 66. Wade moved to tulsa and began his oil career here independent of his brother. We are standing across the street from the second of two glorious buildings constructed by wade phillips. It was built as a construction as a commercial endeavor. Wade had already constructed his masterpiece, the elapsed how were the phillips tower directly across a couple years previously and had his offices in there. He wanted to protect his investment. Hence, he bought it to built it to draw independent oilmen back. The ground before is an arcade, hence it is known as the philc ade. It had 14 stores and shops. And again, prior to airconditioning. Remember this. When we go inside, which we will, soon, you will see it is set up for natural ventilation. Above, largely for independent oilmen and he had a few of his own offices in there as overflow space from the philtower. We are in the interior of the philcade building. Who made, to me, the most splendid example of the art deco lobby in the city. It was built at the very beginning of the deco revolution in this country, if you will. At the same time the Chrysler Building in new york was being constructed and the Union Carbide building in chicago was being constructed. I offer this Fair Assessment of a native tulsan. This lobby rivals either one of those and surpasses both of them. It is art deco in a very unique style in that it has all of the vertical lines. The play it on shadows using simple materials, the lighting the chandeliers that are shown in here are extremely deco manufactured by Empire Chandelier Company in sand springs, oklahoma, and most importantly is the gold leaf and the friese as you go up in the lobby, what i referred to as one of the quintessential deco symbols. The frieze as you go up in the lobby. The cornucopia. A feminine symbol, typically used with the lightning bolt the masculine symbol. The cw really btw really the two really combine here in a very passionate manner. Again, if you look even further up at the ceiling and all of the wonderful goldleaf we have in this space, it is east meets west. The influence of native american art in our native tribes in and around tulsa were influenced by french and art moderne. We are standing in front of what was originally known as the gillette tyrell building. Mr. Gillette was an oil man tyrell equally. It was started in 1928 and finished in late 1929. Originally the building was to be a hotel and commercial building, combination. The last 11 stories were never built due to what happened on october 29, 1929. As we know, the Great Depression stopped a lot of peoples lives as well as construction. The beauty of this building is it was preserved for lack of use, if you will. The floors have never been worn down. The doors still operate. The shine on the elevators is still there. Because it was never used as a hotel. Above me is a taxi awning, built, if you will look at it much like a street light or the , old street lights were used to have. Red, green, and yellow. Red means waiting for a cab to show up. Yellow meant get in line. And green meant get here quickly, ive got a customer standing ready to go. All history starts with people unless its geological history which in tulsas case, we have both. We happen to be in a place where a lot of dinosaurs kicked the bucket and created a hell of a lot of oil below us. But we also had people come in to dig up that oil, who brought their cultures with them, and when you buildt something, you built it right. And the jewel and the genius of tulsa is through happenstance and through the desire to make a buck, we had quality people show up around the same time who created this incredible place on the prairie. Find out where cspans cities tour is going next online at cspan. Org cities to ur. You are watching American History tv all weekend every weekend on cspan3. American artifacts to museums and historical places. We visit the museum in washington, d. C. To view an exhibit on the anniversary of abraham lincolns assassination. The New York Herald shows how the news unfolded after the first reports that the president had been shot. Teresa imd curator and director of collections at the museum and we are in the new lincoln exhibit called president clinton is dead. This exhibit has a tight focus on seven editions of the New York Herald which was the most widely circulated newspaper at the time that were published in the 18 hours immediately following lincolns assassination. It is the minute by minute story of the news as it happened about the assassination of lincoln. One of the ways that we hope people understand not just time but place is through this great map on the floor in the center of the gallery. Because we are almost in this building at the epicenter of things. The museum is on the site of the National Hotel which is the hotel were both stated the night before where booth stated before he committed the horrible crime. This is the breaking news, the flash moment, the president has been shot. Interestingly it views the word assassination at the time because it meant a surprise violent attack on someone. It did not mean that it resulted in death, it has come to mean that over the years. One of the things that i hope people comprehend as they move through the exhibit is that they get the understanding of how people at the time were getting news. This is really a moment in time where everything had come together. The complete proliferation of the telegraph, the incredible squadron of reporters available coming off of the war, the capacity of the New York Herald to move so swiftly because of the speed of the presses, to be able to push the news out this rapidly. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time all seven editions of the herald have been together since before they were printed and via sesquicentennial assassination and the sesquicentennial of the assassination is the reason. We can always fascinates people but this year is important because it marks the 150th anniversary of his assassination , the first president in our history to be assassinated. It is an important moment in time. This and other american artifacts programs by visiting our website cspan. Org history. In about 10 minutes, well hear from senator john mccain talking about his vietnam war experiences, including the more than five years he spent in hanoi as a prisoner of war. He recorded his memories for the library of congress as part of their veterans history project. This month, American History tv will air a selection of the projects interviews with