Explore our nations past. As a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Good evening and welcome to the third installment of cspans contend series. We look at Williams Jennings bryant. What better way to introduce to you the man than hearing directly from him. Heres a portion of the speech that he delivered at the Democratic National convention back in 1896. Its commonly referred to as the cross of gold speech which led directly to his first run at the white house at the age of 36. We do not come as aggressors. Our war is not a war of conflict. We are fighting into our homes, our families and prosperity. We have petitions, and our petitions have been scorned. We treaties and our treaties have been disregarded. We have begged and they have mocked when our calamity came. We beg no longer. We entreat no more. We petition no more. We defy them. We go forth confident that we shall win. The words of William Jennings bryan coming to you from his home in nebraska. I
Apartment buildings. Lets go live to Trish Hartman. Good morning. Trish. Reporter good morning, eva and nydia, that officer is in stable condition officer mark handily from the Ridley Park Police department. We take a look at video from overnight. Officers from norwood, ridley and trainer and Prospect Park responded to the mohawk mannor apartment for report of a suicidal man. Officers were speaking to the man through the door, he fired a gun hitting the officer in the chest and the leg. The officer was wearing a bullet proof vest and was rushed to crozerchester Medical Center in stable condition. A standoff took place for two hours according to police, we have video officers in swat gear, the Apartment Building was evacuated as police tried to take the suspect into custody. The residents were allowed back into their homes. Back here live, the suspect who police say is in his 40s is in custody was shot in the elbow and taken to the hospital for treatment and psychiatric valuation. He is
Representative barney frank. Then later, president obama marks the fifth anniversary and talks about the economy. El entaft was more ambitious about getting to the white house than her husband, William Howard taft and was able to get him personalally involve in the politics to get him elected. She overcame an illness to get to the white house, invited top musicians to perform there, and supports causes that mattered to her. Helen taft offered the most visual treasures, the famous cherry trees. It brings tens of thousands of visitors to washington every year. Good evening, welcome to first ladies, influence and image, the life of helen taft. Her husband served in the white house from 1909 to 1913. Here to tell us about her life and legacy is biographer, louis gould. The biography is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case of the 20th first lady, shes the most obscure but she deserves better from history. Why is she better than being obscure . She did som
Fast as they have in the last year with donald trump. You can consider that his audition. That was just a few hours ago in cincinnati, ohio. Gingrich warming up the crowd at a big rally for trump. Now of course gingrich was speaker of the house back in the 1990s. He was then pushed out of office in 1998 by his fellow republicans. This came after his party suffered a surprisingly poor showing in that years midterm elections. But gingrich never really went away after that. He was back running for president four years ago, and now tonight well, tonight, it looks more possible than ever, based on what happened at that rally, that hell end up as trumps running mate. Newt has been my friend for a long time. And im not saying anything, and im not telling newt anything, but i can tell you in one form or another, Newt Gingrich is going to be involved with our government. That i can tell you. Okay . We all love newt. Newt gets it. Ill tell you one thing, folks. Im not saying its newt, but if its
Proud to be here. I used to study and teach history. I spent a little bit of time in politics. I have never i know of no example in American History of a moment where the leader and the American People came together as fast as they have in the last year with donald trump. You can consider that his audition. That was just a few hours ago in cincinnati, ohio. Gingrich warming up the crowd at a big rally for trump. Now of course gingrich was speaker of the house back in the 1990s. He was then pushed out of office in 1998 by his fellow republicans. This came after his party suffered a surprisingly poor showing in that years midterm elections. But gingrich never really went away after that. He was back running for president four years ago, and now tonight well, tonight, it looks more possible than ever, based on what happened at that rally, that hell end up as trumps running mate. Newt has been my friend for a long time. And im not saying anything, and im not telling newt anything, but i ca