Still, so many unanswered questions. Why did a Police Officer kill an unarmed black teenager. Is a militarized police force heightening the tension. Attacking freedom of the press. And how can the Community Heal . A night of special coverage flashpoint ferguson the way forward. Welcome back. Im joeie chen from america tonight, our al jazeera programme. Also our colleague, my colleague, tony harris. This has been an interesting night. Not only has there been a lot of news event. Thats right. Relating to ferguson and the way forward, and we are looking for the way forward, but a lot of news event coming from outside the community. And we are, of course, keeping an eye on the streets of ferguson, missouri, florissant street , the shooting death of Michael Brown. Looking at west florissant, there are demonstrations and protesters. What is happening in ferguson is reverberating around the county, in new york theres a demonstration going on in support of Michael Brown and his family. We dont
Attacking freedom of the press. And how can the Community Heal . A night of special coverage flashpoint ferguson forward. Welcome back. Im joeie chen from america tonight, our al jazeera programme. Also our colleague, my colleague, tony harris. This has been an interesting night. Not only has there been a lot of news event. Thats right. Relating to ferguson and the way forward, and we are looking for the way forward, but a lot of news event coming from outside the community. And we are, of course, keeping an eye on the streets of ferguson, missouri, florissant street , the shooting death of Michael Brown. Looking at west florissant, there are demonstrations and protesters. What is happening in ferguson is reverberating around the county, in new york theres a demonstration going on in support of Michael Brown and his family. We dont have pictures, but its been tense for the last 2030 minute. There was a demonstration in oklahoma, california, and well follow those pictures through the ho
Richmond National Battlefield park. Id like to take just a moment to introduce to you all tonight, our participants in this evens program. Dr. James i. Robertson, paul levengood, david adams, a close personal friend and steward of a large portion of the cold harbor battlefield. Our readers, ashley and michael, and i want to send a special thanks to our chorus from the lee davis high school. Thank you all very much for being with us in this program tonight. [ applause ] for the last week and a half, many of you have followed in the foot steps of union and confederate armies across the north anna and the pom onky rivers, to potmy creek, Bethesda Church and near here at the cold harbor across roads. Tonight, we will pause to ponder the significance of these stories and what they meant to the veterans of both armies and generations of americans who came after. As we do that, we need to acknowledge the hard work of so many who joined with us in remembering and commemorating this unforgettab
Stop grant from besieging lee and his men at petersburg. The richmond battle park organized this hourlong event. Well, good evening. My name is rick raines and im the pastor here at the fair Mount Christian church, and we are really sad that youre here tonight. [ laughter ] we know you are much anticipating being over at the battlefield, but were glad youre with us tonight. Ive been asked to begin the evening with a word of invocation. Please bow with me. Father in heaven, we come to this place tonight, not to celebrate war, but to celebrate sacrifice, loyalty, bravery, and the things that have happened in our history to make us the great nation we are today. May we learn from the lessons of history. May we not repeat the lessons that divide us, but may we repeat those lessons that make us, indeed, strong. Tonight, dear lord, i thank you for the National Park service and their very hard work in bringing this event to our community, to our state, and to our nation. And lord, i am most g
Another. Lee basically takes a waiting game. What is grant going to do. Grant is going to move one way or the other. Lee is uncertain. So he for fits the initiative to his opponent. This is unlike the lee that we usually see. But in this instance he has no choice. He sends his cavalry out past each ends of his lines sort of to act as a trip wire to let him know where the federals are coming from and then waits. The army was commanded by general George Gordon lee, the hero of gettysburg, mead at this point was in a hot seat. He failed to destroy lees army at gettysburg. He was being investigated by congress. We all know how bad that can be. And so mead was in a bad situation. Grant visited him and was impressed by mead, because what mead told grant was that he would step down willingly and let grant bring some of his own people from the west to run the army of the potomac. Grant decided to keep mead on. He needed somebody with meads knowledge of that army in order to run it in detail. A