Earlier two lanes were blocked. It looks like all lanes are almost reopened but delays into the tolls are heavy. Lower level or lincoln tunnel are alternate options for you and western spur of the turnpike, disabled truck northbound before 18w tolls in the right lane and delays building through this area. Well have more weather and traffic coming up on the 4s. New this morning, a man gunned down in brooklyn. The second shooting in a matter of hours in one neighborhood. Late last night someone killed man on Lincoln Place. Hours earlier another shooting wounded two teens. Today in nep yorks Katherine Creag is in crown hei ts. Ip reporter its one crime scene after another. Terribly shocking for the people who live in this area. They have seen Police Officers since yesterday afternoon. There are Police Officers here now. Were looking at the crime scene trucr there. Investigators here gathering evidence. This is where a young man, only 22 years old, was shot in the head. He did not rvive. I
We are open 365 days a year. We are always free from 10 00 until 5 00 every day. When you come to washington d it is a wonderful place to visit. Theres always something in bloom. Theres always something to see and hopefully something you have not seen before. You are watching American History tv 48 hours of programming on American History every weekend on cspan3. Follow us on twitter for information on our schedule of upcoming programs and to keep up with the latest history news. Next on American History tv pastors, historians, Church Choirs and an actor portraying Frederick Douglass reflect on the passage of the 13th amendment which abolished slavery. The event is held at the new york avenue Presbyterian Church. That is where president lincoln frequently worshiped. This Lincoln Group of d. C. Event marking the 150th anniversary of the 13th amendment, is about two hours. As roger started to allude, this is lincolns home church. We try to keep the Current Ministry and legacy of lincolns
That document describes a come and save compromise emancipation plan, his last ever to get slaveholding border states to sell their slaves to the federal government so that they could be out of that is this. When he rejected that, he began to discuss the process of the emancipation proclamation. We believe, as ron white points out, that pastor girlys relationship with mr. Lincoln helped mr. Lincoln develop a higher understanding of his relationship with his god and allowed him to think through clearly from a religious perspective, how vehement patient proclamation can best be described and encompassed. With that, we are ready to begin the program. I would like to introduce edna green medford. History professor and chairperson at howard university. Shields degrees from Hampton Institute and the university of illinois and her phd is in history from the university of maryland. Dr. Medford specializes in 19 country United States history and teaches courses on the jacksonian era and civil w
This by the way is not the Original Church. This church was torn down and replaced with this church in the exact spot similar to the Original Church in 1950. The pew was preserved where he and his family would sit. He would be listening to passage or any of girly you with the profitable it. This was the Original Church used up until the time of futile peter marshall. We preserved his memory through the lincoln window. These stain think less windows were dedicated 1968. Maybe in the end you can book to the one second in the last of lincoln standing in prayer which was his custom fitting in this pew during the services here. You probably past the hitching post out front. That would have been used by the president that would not have been moved. You may have heard the bells of this church, the lincoln chimes for a gift of the Robert Lincoln family, his son after robert died his wife and daughter presented the church in 1927 with the terms that were brought forward to the new church. It is
Property belonging to the public. And not subject to the particular Decision Making of any particular justice when he or she leaves the court, and when you ask what access means to me, everyone that responded in terms of extreme particularity, i wrote some statistics down. My wifes grandfather was a friend of Justice Douglas and we discovered when he passed away that he had a number of letters from douglas and we were kind of trophy hunting going through the papers and seeing the stuff. So i looked it up online to see what i could find out about the papers of Justice Douglas and where they were. And, of course, you go to the Supreme Court website and immediately send you someplace else because its not the kind of thing that they are collect and gathering, although they should. As you make your way through a number of other websites, i found with great particularity great information about the papers of Justice Douglas, which i will share with you. Theyre at the library of congress. The