Welcome to the report, everybody. Folks, if you have been watching the news like i v you know there is a big story this weekend. Thank you so much, folks. Folks, the Winter Olympics are finally over. Theyve handed out all the metals and all the whips. And the athletes are now leaving town before Vladimir Putin uses the olympic flame to burn down sochi for the insurance money. Unfortunately, my friends on the u. S. Speed skating team 2014 has been a rocky road or as they call it, an unzambonied rink. They medaled in only one event and the team is covering their asses by blaming the thing that covered their asses. Evidently the teams new suit featured vents on the back of the suit designed to allow heat toes cape but allowed air to enter and create drag. Everybody knows clothing always creates drag. Which is why to get better mileage i always drive in the nude. cheers and applause stephen i put a little towel down. Folks, its not enough that we lost. Now the netherlands coach jillert, im
Spared for the wedding of Kim Kardashian and kanye west. Today, saturday, may 24th, 2014. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to today. Im lester holt. Im kate snow alongside jenna wolfe and jenna drier. Erica taking the morning off. We want to get to our top story today. That deadly shooting near the campus of university of california near Santa Barbara. Kristin dahlgren is following the developments good morning. Details are still trickling in. Here is what we know so far. This is a Community Near the u. C. Santa barbara campus where many students live. Around 9 30 pacific, gunfire rang out from a suspected attacker driving a black bmw. According to police, it is unclear who the target or targets were. The shooter was near the college. They say no shots were ever fired on campus. At least seven were killed. The gunman is among them. The suspect had exchanged gunfire with sheri
Professor. They spoke at the 2014 organization of american historians annual meeting in atlanta. This is about 90 minutes. S an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c
His great grandfather in fact was a founder of new africa, an all black colony established in the mississippi delta in the 1880s. If you know where to look urk still see a road sign. After his freshman year at howard, he got on a bus to go to a civil rights training meeting in houston, texas. Stopped off in jackson, and basically never left. As dory ladner says, he got gamed. Charlie would work as a snik organizers chiefly in Sunflower County in the delta. He would in 1964 be one of the primary architects of the mississippi summer project, though he was also someone who opposed the project. It was, im sure many of you have seen this document, this was charlie who wrote the prospectus for the freedom schools, schools intended in his words to fill an intellectual and create a vacuum in the lives of young negro mississippianss and so get them to articulate their own demands and questions. Hes remained an activist in the decade first and he has also worked as a journalist for National Publ
One of their widows was part of a Panel Discussion on the freedom summer. This is an hour and a half. Thank you all for being here. My name is jim campbell. I teach history at Stanford University. It is my privilege and my great pleasure to introduce todays panelists after which im going to shut up. A couple of ground rules. The reason that there are these blinding lights, this event is being recorded by c span, so one consequence of that is they have asked that we use the microphone for questions from the floor. Im afraid theres only one, so my hope would be that i hope we dont get one of these endless cues, but if you do have a question and are able, please come forward and speak into the microphone with your questions. If you are not able, well try to get the microphone to you. The speaker will speak, i hope, i expect quite briefly, and we will then throw this open into a conversation. It is as all of you know if youve been watching your c span today, this is a signal day in america